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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 21:25:07 EDT
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Note to SPREAD THE WORD
below is the notice i sent out:
Subj: SPREAD THE WORD
Date: 6/19/99 5:49:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: SheeZard
Although I'm only several months old to the listing - today's request for
help is as sincere as those of you who have been faithfully exchanging words
of information, encouragement, excitement, frustration, laughter and tears
for so long now -
You may not know me yet - but you DO know what I want - the same thing we've
all been seeking since DAY ONE when we learned that a loved one had this
mysterious illness called Parkinson's Disease - we're simply seeking
knowledge, information & tools to better allow us to live the best quality
of life we can.
Anyway - I'm not on a soap box YET! But I do ask for your help - I belong to
a non-political, non-profit group here in Southern California formerly
called:
COPS - Children of Parkinsonians
(for more info on the organization - email: [log in to unmask])
The group has grown over the years and the founder - JO ROSEN - (of whom many
of you may already be familiar), has recently changed the name to reflect the
broader range of services it performs - we are now called:
P R O - Parkinson's Resource Organization
OCTOBER 2, 1999 - Park Hyatt Hotel
Century City/ Los Angeles, California
(remember this info!)
As a committee member and chairperson, I/we are now in the midst of planning
the most successful fundraiser "in the Universe" (as Jo states with the
matter-of-factness and aggressiveness that is SO very needed in dealing with
this illness!)
As P R O "Swings Into the New Millennium" - we are determined to do so with
more ferver, dedication, knowledge and skills to educate those around us
about this illness.
Uh oh, here it comes - the bottom line! I ask for your help.
If you live here in the Los Angeles/Southern California area and have time,
experience, advice, suggestions, a voice, a phone, a friend? Please let me
know. I need you.
If you live anywhere else and have time, experience, advice, suggestions, a
voice, a phone, a friend? Please let me know. I need you!
The DATE is set. The BALLROOM dusted. The time - To Be Advised - but the
mission is clear:
* we'll entertain you
* we'll tempt you with the stuff dreams are made of
(as they, too, can be yours if the number is right!)
* we'll wine and dine you
* we'll even whirl you around on our dance floor
. . . but we're doing it for one reason only - to raise public awareness to
the level which guarantees that anyone connected with Parkinson's has access
to education, current information and tools to live the best quality of life
they can.
. . . in the meantime, help us insure that those tools and resources are made
available to all who ask for them and, more importantly, to those who have
yet to ask.
my sincerest thanks-in-advance for any suggestions, referrals, donations,
time &/or help you have to offer -
Cari Salter-Barrett*
daughter of Jo Ann** - CG for Dempsey**, 69/15+,
*Los Angeles **Tyler Texas
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