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• thanks...
Thank you to this month’s sponsors:
Luncheon:
• Scott milo at the Framemaker
Business After Hours:
• trident Seafood Corporation
And thank you to all who contributed to the
gift give-aways!
Luncheon:
• always a Coach
• american Cancer Society
• Bayside Specialties, inc
• Days Gone By antiques—for the aprons
• Jim Darling—Prospective member
• le Crema Cakes—for all the wonderful
cupcakes
• marketing With mary
• Papa murphy’s Pizza
• the mailbox
Business After Hours:
• all about Honeymoons and vacations
• anacortes aJ rentals
• Buer’s anacortes Floral & Gift
• Cap Sante inn
• Cap Sante Court retirement Center
• edward Jones—Jeffery Pleet
• Fidalgo island Quilters
• Fidalgo island Writer’s Guild
• Fine edge nautical & recreational
Publishing
• Gems, llC
• Kathy’s Upscale retail Boutique
• KeyBank
• labor ready
• marketing With mary
• olympic legal Services, PS
• Papa murphy’s Pizza
Chamber member, the Anacortes Rotary Club, in a group picture. This amazing group raised
$5,000 to sponsor Relay for Life in just a few minutes at a club meeting in February.
JOIN US AT OUR
NEXT RELAY RALLY!
Come learn more about Relay For
Life and how we are
creating more birthdays!
Everyone is welcome!
Thursday,
March 15 th
6:30-7:30PM
Gere-a-Deli
502 Commercial
Want more information on
Relay For Life or the
American Cancer Society?
Contact:
2012 Relay For Life of Anacortes
Event Chair
Chris Zimmerman
Chris.L.Zimmerman@tsocorp.com
Your Dollars at Work – What
Your Gift Can Do
Programs and Services
• $5 - provides an hour of toll-free access to the National Cancer
Information Center, providing support and valuable information for a
newly diagnosed cancer patient anywhere in the country. 892 people in
Washington state contacted the NCIC last month.
• $5 - provides a nametag for a Road to Recovery driver, a volunteer who
drives patients to their treatment.
• $10 - provides a Personal Health Manager, an organizational system for
tracking treatment information, appointments, and insurance documents,
to a cancer patient.
• $15 - provides two boxes of wig tape to a cancer patient receiving
treatment.
• $20 - provides a hat, scarf, or mastectomy bra to a cancer patient.
• $50 - provides a wig or foam prosthetic to help boost morale.
• $75 - the cost of training and providing resources for the Reach to
Recovery volunteer to visit and provide ACS resources to a woman just
diagnosed with breast cancer.
• $100 - provides a gas card or a night in a hotel to a patient to help
them get to treatment appointments and relieve financial burden.
� $350 - is the value of Look Good...Feel Better consultation giving a
cancer patient the opportunity to learn how to care for her changing skin
during treatment including simple tactics for drawing eyebrows on her
face and impacting her sense of well-being and self esteem.
• $2,500 - pays for a 1-year college scholarship awarded to eligible
young cancer survivors to help relieve the burden on families facing costly
medical bills.
Research
• $10 - provides a Petri dish for cancer research, essential to the
life-saving work of scientific discovery.
• $15 - provides 50 test tubes needed by scientists working on a cure for
cancer.
• $20 - is the cost of dividing DNA taken from 5 of the 1,200 cases during
the American Cancer Society’s Prevention Study II, which helps
researchers understand the genetics of cancer.
• $30 - purchases a glass Erlenmeyer flask, which allows researchers to
mix and/or store different substances, including potentially beneficial
drugs, to discover their cancer-related effects.
• $350 - provides 1 Gel Box, which researchers use to isolate DNA and
identify differences that may impact cancer diagnosis or treatment.
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