Swim a Mile for Women with Cancer
Join us for the 9th Annual Swim a Mile for Women With
Cancer
Saturday and Sunday, October 2-3, 2004
Mills College, Oakland
For more information call 601.4040 x 180 or email swim@wcrc.org.
Plan on swimming with us. Information, details and answers
to questions about Swim a Mile -- as well as the complete
registration process -- can be found online at www.wcrc.org.
You can pledge
to a specific swimmer online too, as long as the swimmer
is already registered. We have Swim a Mile posters and
brochures all over the Bay Area. We want to express our
great appreciation to Andronico’s Markets, Men’s
Wearhouse, Mills College, Tri-Valley/East Bay Radiation
Oncology Centers, Speedo, East Bay Express and the San
Francisco Chronicle for their great sponsorship of our
Swim A Mile.
Not a swimmer? Still interested? Really great volunteers
are one of the secrets of our Swim a Mile! It isn’t
too early to sign up as a volunteer and be in the middle
of all the fun this year. Call Sarah at 510/601-4040 x
105 and she will give you all the details.
Do you own or manage a small store, service business
or restaurant? We are still looking for donated goods,
services and food to give to swimmers as raffle prizes
and to help them keep their energy up the day of the event.
We would love to see body workers come by for quick rub
downs of tired muscles, all kinds of donated sandwiches,
bagels, juices, coffees, water etc. We can help with marketing
your business to more than 500 people who come and help
us that weekend. We strongly encourage our swimmers and
volunteers to support our supporters—together we
really do make a difference. Please call Ali at 510/527-1918
if you can help!
Volunteer with WCRC
Lots of volunteer opportunities are coming up—Swim A
Mile, speaking engagements, community tabling events, library
research and so much more. If you are Spanish/English bi-lingual
we would love to talk with you about the really wonderful
clients who need our services in Spanish. Please call Sarah
at 510.601.4040 x 105.
WCRC Support Groups
If you or a loved one is struggling with cancer, we
encourage you to participate in a support
group here at WCRC. If you are interested in a support
group that isn’t listed, please call Dolores at 510.420.7900
x112.
- Adults with Blood-Related Cancers and their Families
and Friends (cosponsored with the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society)
- African American Women with Cancer
- Amigos y Familiares de Mujeres con Cáncer (en
español)
- Complementary and Alternative Treatments
- Friends and Family
- Latinas con Cáncer (en español)
- Lesbians with Cancer (not meeting in June, July or August)
- Post Treatment
- Teen Support Group for teens who have a parent or guardian
with cancer
- Women with Cancer
See Peer Support Groups
for meeting times and facilitator information.
A new workshop series on menopausal transition
*JOYFUL BODY*
Movement/Meditation/Menopause
Session One: Balance
Women of color, lesbians and friends access the energetic
potential of this new phase of your life. Whether you are
facing menopause, feeling it, or floundering through its
after-effects, you can access your body’s own wisdom
to find balance. Purple Moon Dance Project’s Artistic
Director Jill Togawa, an experienced dancer/choreographer
and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, combines
gentle body movement, breath-work, meditation and yoga grounded
in a safe, sensitive and culturally-diverse perspective.
Beginning with an exploration of natural balance, other
five-week sessions in the ongoing series will explore such
qualities of the menopausal transition as change and flexibility,
loss and liberation, opportunity and potential, $25 covers
the five-class session; sliding scale is available; registration
is limited. Class meets from 5:30 to 7pm, Tuesdays –
August 24th and 31st, September 14th, 21st and 28th, at
the PMDP Studio, 465 10th Street, #302, SF. For registration/information,
please call 415.552.1105.
CD Release Concert
Have you or your loved ones been affected by chronic illness
or the cancer experience? Composer Joyce Kouffman's community
project and new CD "Who Has Not Been Touched"
is an uplifting, eclectic jazz journey of healing for everybody
and especially those who have been touched by these challenges
of living. The CD release concert, with Kouffman on jazz
drums, Bay Area legends Mary Watkins on piano and Ruth Davies
on bass, plus featuring renowned New York-based saxophonist,
Don Braden, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on SUNDAY, AUGUST
29 at The Dance Palace community center in Point Reyes Station.
Special guest emcees will be KCSM's Melanie Berzon and Claire
Peaslee of West Coast Live, reading inspiring perspectives
from those present and those who have passed on. For more
information, go to www.JoyceJazz.com.
Cancer Control Society - Cancer Convention
Dr. Eliaz will be speaking at the 31st Annual Cancer Convention
on Saturday Aug 30th at 12:30pm PST. The title of his presentation
will be “Modified Citrus Pectin in the Prevention,
Control & Spread of Cancer.” The conference is
presented by the Cancer Control Society and will take place
at the Sheraton Universal in Universal City, CA Aug 30th
thru Sept 1st. To register call 323 663-7801 or register
online at www.cancercontrolsociety.com.
The cost is $35/day – or $10/day for the exhibits only.
Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to Thriving™,
a FREE two-day event for anyone touched by cancer - patients,
survivors, their friends and family, support persons, and
healthcare providers - September 11 & 12, 2004 at Sacramento
Community Center Theater. Pre-registration is necessary.
Contact Healing Journeys at (916) 930-9040, (800) 423-9882
or www.healingjourneys.org.
CEUs are available for a fee for RN, MFT, and LCSW.
