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We talk about being TV ready, but are we TV savvy? Has ANYONE seen or heard ony media coverage of this weekend's events? Here I am, in Portland Maine, where our friend Ivan Suzman has been involved in four separate newsworthy events for Parkinson's Awareness Month, and NOTHING! Are we naive, or what. I think what we are doing is great. Here in Maine, a joint House-Senate Resolution was passed on Monday, April the, proclaiming April to be Parkinson's Awareness Month and April 11th, to be World Parkinson's Day. On Saturday, April 10th, at the Maine Medical Center, in Portland, the Maine Parkinson Society ran a very successful program of speakers, on topics ranging from what at the future holds for PD in surgery and medicine, to humor, to massage therapy as treatments for PD. Today, Ivan Suzman was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Augusta, Maine Support Group. And fourth,there was that truly blessed event, the Prayer for Parkinson's, by Archbishop Tutu. This has been sent to places of worship all over the world. But has it been READ during services at these places of worship?? And yet there has been no report of any of it here in Maine - and none that I've heard of anywhere else. I hope somebody can prove me wrong!! Yet we notified the media - newspapers and TV. Why is the story (or stories) not getting picked up? Among all of us 1800 people on the list, aren't there any newspaper men,. maybe a television news anchor or two, or somebody who KNOWS how it is done? Is there something we are doing wrong? Or something we are not doing right? Because something has to be done. Our voices must be heard.. SIncerely yours, Hilary Blue