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Dear John, Sorry to tell you but this message should go to another Jennifer. You sent it to Jennifer Smith and it should go to Jennifer Hogan. john bjork wrote: > Hi Jennifer: Just clearing up my email and found your response to our news submission. I wonder if you could let us know whether you aired the story. The National Parkinson's Foundation is interested in how well we did in getting the word out. We hope you were able to run it; it's such a nasty disease. If you weren't able to fit it in in April, perhaps a little piece could still be run next month. Incidently, I'm a fellow Yooper, now living in WV. Oddly, I'm heading up to Gladstone tomorrow, on account of my mom fell and broke her hip and is recovering over in Escanaba. I'll think of your station as I hit St Ignace. Thanks. > > John Bjork > > john bjork wrote: > > > Barb: Again, no big deal here, but thought I'd share the response > > received from WNEM-TV in Sault Ste Marie, MI (Parkinsaw Country) re > > doing a story on the Archbishop Tutu Prayer and on World's Parkinson's > > Awareness Month. > > > > John Bjork > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Subject: [Fwd: Suggested News Item - April is World Parkinson's DiseaseAwareness Day] > > Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:14:58 -0400 > > From: john bjork <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] > > CC: Barbara Patterson <[log in to unmask]> > > > > Barb: Again, no big deal here, but thought I'd share the response > > received from WNEM-TV in Sault Ste Marie, MI (Parkinsaw Country) re > > doing a story on the Archbishop Tutu Prayer and on World's Parkinson's > > Awareness Month. > > > > John Bjork > > A View from the Lighter Side > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Re: Suggested News Item - April is World Parkinson's Disease > > Awareness Day > > Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:09:19 -0500 > > From: Jennifer Hogan <[log in to unmask]> > > To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Thanks for letting us know. We will try to do a story. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Jennifer Hogan > > News Director > > > > >>> john bjork <[log in to unmask]> 04/02 10:08 AM >>> > > TO: WNEM News Desk Editors: We would greatly appreciate your airing > > this significant news Bulletin in connection with World Parkinson's > > Disease Awareness Month in April. > > > > ***ARCHBISHOP TUTU TO HELP PARKINSON'S DISEASE SUFFERERS*** > > > > South Africa's Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace > > Laureate, Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology, Emory > > University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA has offered to issue a prayer for all > > those worldwide who are suffering from Parkinson's Disease to mark World > > > > Parkinson's Awareness Month in April. > > > > The Archbishop offered to write a prayer for the occasion following a > > telephone conversation and a long emailed letter from Ivan Suzman, > > Portland, Maine, who has advanced Young Onset Parkinson's. Suzman, a > > disabled anthropologist, (and formerly a leading anti-apartheid > > activist) has become a Parkinson's activist and a member of the > > Parkinson > > Information Exchange Network (PIEN), an internet discussion list, > > notified members of the list of the Archbishop's willingness to "do > > something for those suffering from Parkinson's". Later, Tutu's office > > notified the listowner, Barbara Patterson, another Young Onset" > > Parkinsonian and a secretary at McMaster University School of Nursing, > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, that the Archbishop had decided that his > > prayer will be issued through PIEN. Patterson's internet list has more > > than 1,800 subscribers in 36 countries. > > > > Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a chronic, slowly progressive neurological > > condition that affects a small area of cells in the mid brain known as > > the substantia nigra. Gradual degeneration of these cells causes a > > reduction in a vital chemical known as "dopamine". This decrease in > > dopamine can produce one or more of the classic signs of Parkinson's > > Disease. > > > > Although an estimated 15% of patients are diagnosed before age 50, PD is > > > > generally considered a disease which targets older adults. Parkinson's > > disease affects up to 10%, in some populations, of those persons over > > the age of 60. To date, there is no known prevention or cure for > > Parkinson's > > Disease. > > > > Notable persons with the disease include Pope John Paul II, Muhammad > > Ali American Attorney General, Janet Reno, Gandhi photographer Margaret > > Bourke-White and actor Michael J. Fox. > > > > Submitted by: John R Bjork > > (304) 229-2006 > > > > ! > > ! > > ! > > !