Sunday, September 25, 2011
John Anderson shows off his close shave at St. Baldrick's fund-raiser.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
John Anderson has been growing his hair since May to help raise money for kids with cancer. It was beginning to stick out funny under his baseball cap, so John was thankful on Saturday that it was finally time for a close shave. Anderson was one of more than 60 men, plus boys from Caldwell football and soccer teams, who went bald in support of St. Baldrick's Foundation, a charity for pediatric cancers, at the Shillelagh Club of West Orange. You could just about hear the buzz of the clippers over the band as barbers volunteering their own time gave each of the participants a close shave. Anderson joined the Shillelagh Club a year ago when he attended the St. Baldrick’s event. "It really made an impact on me, seeing how organized and …
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
John Anderson (and dozens more) will get a close shave at the Shillelagh Club to raise money for kids with cancer.
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- L. Klonsky
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Why would a bunch of right-minded individuals get together, in public, to have their heads shaved? For charity, of course! September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and the Shillelagh Club of West Orange encourages the community to get involved in the fight against childhood cancer by supporting its St. Baldrick’s benefit at 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24. The St. Baldrick's Foundation is a volunteer-driven charity that funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government. Volunteers, including John Anderson from Livingston, will sit side by side and face the clippers as part of the worldwide effort of Shaving the Way to Conquer Kids’ Cancer. Anderson joined the Shillelagh Club a year ago when …
Sunday, June 19, 2011
More than $90,000 is raised for American Cancer Society.
Hundreds packed West Orange High School's gym Friday night to Relay for Life, honoring those that survived cancer and remembering lost loved ones. The event, originally scheduled to take place on the field, was moved indoors after thunderstorms swept through the area. "Because a survivor can't stop when the going gets rough, nor do we cancel Relay when the weather is bad," said David Greulich, one of the organizers of the event. Friends, families, neighbors, classmates and sports teams gathered to walk around the gym as a way to fight back against the disease. More than $90,000 was raised and more than 60 teams walked.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Thousands step up to walk across America to raise funds for cancer research.
Across America on Sunday, thousands of people are joining in a National Walk to End Brain Cancer. It’s part of a month-long effort to promote awareness and fund research, a movement spurred just two years ago when former Gov. Corzine established the month of May as Brain Tumor Awareness Month. This fledgling awareness movement is still working to bring information to the public about a cancer affecting more than 359,000 people in the United States. Kristen Gillette, founder and president of The Kortney Rose Foundation, began the pursuit to get a month named for Brain Tumor Awareness after her 9-year-old Kortney died after only a four-month battle with a brain tumor. The non-profit foundation was begun to help other children through the …
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Jennifer Goodman Linn shares her new posts on WebMD: From diagnosis and treatment to remission and survival.
These aren’t necessarily the first words you would picture a patient saying to their team of oncologists when they receive a cancer diagnosis. However, I believe they were pretty close to mine. I was 33 years old and had just found out that I had a rare type of cancer and my odds of surviving were 50/50. I vowed that I would become my own best advocate. I would not only be a star patient but I would be a star at taking care of myself and my physical, nutritional and spiritual needs. I was determined to take control of my treatment and set parameters and boundaries when it came to my disease. Just because I had “cancer” did not mean that I had to forgo things that appealed to me. My doctor explained to me that the chemotherapy regimen he …
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Jennifer Goodman Linn, Her Fearless Life.
Jennifer Goodman Linn is the founder of Cycle for Survival, a successful fund-raising event. She is an award-winning motivational speaker and marketing strategy consultant. For the past 6 years, she has slogged through eight courses of chemotherapy to shrink the tumors and six grueling surgeries to remove them. “Five relapses later, I continue to beat the odds by not giving in to the disease -- by living a fearless life.” With permission, we are sharing a recent post on her blog, You Fearless. The Doors that Present Themselves It’s been a long time since I’ve written about some of the amazing people I’ve met along this crazy, cancer journey. Well, today I couldn’t resist because I have a truly beautiful story to share. Dean Baer is an …
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sydney Becker receives good reports after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.
Nurses tell Sydney Becker, a Heritage Middle School seventh grader, she is the easiest patient on the floor. Just over a week ago, Sydney underwent an 8-hour surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York to remove a cancerous tumor. Doctors removed much of her tibia (shinbone) to get rid of the tumor and replaced it with a titanium rod. They also removed her knee and replaced it with an artificial one. Days earlier, more than 1,000 people in Livingston joined her on the Oval to raise $30,000 to fight pediatric cancers. Sydney has been writing every day on CaringBridge.org, a nonprofit organization that provides free websites to help family and friends share information and support. (You can read Sydney's journal here). This…
Thank you to the volunteers making a difference in fight against pancreatic cancer.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
Dear Editor, April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and I would like to take a moment to sincerely thank all of our volunteers with the New Jersey Affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, a national organization fighting pancreatic cancer in a comprehensive way through research, patient support, community outreach and advocacy for a cure for all their hard work and support. The New Jersey Affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network has over 40 active volunteers who have given their time to fighting the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of any major cancer with a five year survival rate of just 6 percent. There are no early detection tools, few …
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Friends sponsor dart tournament to help Ernie Viviani.
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- Lisa Sang
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Friends of Ernie Viviani, a well-known mechanic in Livingston who is battling cancer, are sponsoring an event in his honor they hope will hit the bullseye. "Darts From the Heart: A Benefit Tournament for our Friend Ernie Viviani" will be Saturday, April 16, at Ringside Pub in Caldwell, to help pay for Viviani's medical expenses. All proceeds from the evening, which include singles and doubles play, will go toward helping Viviani, 52, a longtime member of the Tri-County Dart Association. The past few years have been challenging and draining on Viviani and his wife, Cindy, both physically and financially. According to his family and friends, Viviani is fighting this battle with dignity and grace, but now he needs the help of his community. “…
Friday, April 8, 2011
'It's been a very long but rewarding day.'
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Friday, April 8, 2011
It's been a very long but rewarding day. We woke up at 4 a.m. after getting just over two hours sleep and started our trek into NYC filled mostly with optimism, but with a bit of anxiety mixed in. As always, Sydney's "what's the big deal?" attitude made it easier on us -- parents sending our little girl out by herself to face a lengthy and difficult surgery. But she wasn't there by herself, her surgeons and staff were there with her and they were very confident and ready to go, which helped us. The day passed by quicker than we thought, although obviously Sydney had the harder part. But based upon what the surgeons have told us, this turned out to be an excellent day after all, since it appears the surgery went as well as could have …
Marilyn Joyce Lehren
9:45 am on Saturday, September 24, 2011
Looking for something to do Saturday? Support Childhood Cancer Awareness @ the Shillelagh Club, West Orange. Benefit begins at 3 p.m. more ›