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Dear John Bjork, I just came back from a visit to your Parkinsaw, MI village website. I am a happier person for having had a chance to spend some time and get to know the regulars. It is not a bad place to escape to when the real world gets to be a bit much. I want to thank you for setting up a satellite to collect money for PRO-Seed Grants -- it is a real neighborly thing to do. I urge all you "grounded" people to take a leap into the fantasy land that John has created and enjoy yourselves. Go to: http://www.mikeauldridge.com/parknsaw.htm#Section10 and, don't leave without taking part in the "A Thousand Pennies for Parkinsons" offer that John is providing. Wish you the best, Margaret ******************************************************************* Today’s donations for PRO-Seed Grants lead to a PD free tomorrow! ******************************************************************* Parkinson Alliance Margaret Tuchman 1250 24th Street, NW [log in to unmask] Suite 300 Princeton, NJ Washington, DC 20037 609.921.1696 -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of john bjork Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 8:50 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Dateline Parkinsaw, MI: A View from the Lighter Side of PD, May 6, 1999 SNIP In a more serious vein, nothing worth while in this life comes to us without a cost. Although the humorous stories we write about the fictitious happenings in Parkinsaw are provided free of charge, we need your support to make our grass roots fund-raising activity work. The Parkinson Alliance, within the National Parkinson Foundation, has initiated a "Pennies for Parkinson's" campaign. This campaign is designed to support funding for 100 high-quality grants for each of the next two years, with a goal to find a cure for this dreadful disease. To keep within the spirit of the "Pennies for Parkinson's" theme, we offer our program of Virtual Canisters on our web site to enable those individuals who enjoy reading Parkinsaw, MI: A View from the Lighter Side of PD, to make a minimum contribution of One Thousand Pennies. To relieve you of the arduous task of collecting, packing and mailing all these pennies, we simply ask you to send a check for $10 made out to Parkinson Alliance to us here at the Parkinsaw, MI collection center, for forwarding on to Washington. We want the checks to come here first so we'll know how well Parkinsaw, MI collection efforts are doing. For more details, just click-on the "Thousand Pennies for Parkinson's" selection on the main menu of the web site. (For Listserv members, the web site is at www.mikeauldridge.com/parkinsaw/htm) Well it's getting to be that time of day again when the deer start peeking out from the jack pine wondering which shrub they're going to eat. Everyone, of course, has tall fences around their gardens to keep the lovely but destructive creatures out. Between the deer and the geese they can really mess up a yard. We're going to meet at the Northern Lights microbrewery tonight for couple Levodopa brews, and we'll be back with you in a week or so. Remember: Don't let PD destroy God's gift of your smile, laugh and sense of humor. John Bjork