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Next Meetings Legislative Opportunities Notes from Past Meetings Downloadable Mailing Address Labels How Can You Help? Our Meetings are designed for everyone to get together and share ideas on how we can Make A Difference with ovarian cancer. Some meetings have speakers and presentations, others are just get-togethers, sometimes there are projects, and always there is a lot of laughter and fun! Everyone is welcome - survivors, caregivers, family, and friends. Meetings are typically held the first Saturday of each month, except around holidays. Below are details on upcoming meetings. NEXT MEETINGS: NEXT MEETINGS: Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008 Time: 9:00am Place: The Culinary Cottage (formerly called Super Suppers) in Grapevine - address is 230 E. College Street, Grapevine, TX 76051. They are on the corner of Main Street and College (almost) behind Renata's Spa and Salon. The Culinary Cottage was one of our Walk sponsors in 2007! They will provide breakfast items, coffee, and juices. Many thanks to them for providing us a meeting location! Click here to link to a Mapquest map of the location Plans: This meeting will be our last before the Walk in September so come prepared to talk about Walk details and plans! All are welcome - survivors, friends, family - all who want to help make a difference! SPECIAL MEETING: Living WELL With Ovarian Cancer - Educational Presentation: What It Is About: The DFW Chapter of the NOCC and Gilda's Club of North Texas are very proud to present this educational seminar on Living WELL with Ovarian Cancer. There will be a number of featured speakers including physicians, a nutritionist, a renowned author, and more. Admission is free (but registration is required) and a complimentary luncheon is included. Who Should Attend: Ovarian Cancer Survivors, their friends, and family and anyone interested in learning more about ovarian cancer. Date: Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm Place: Gilda's Club North Texas at One Works of Grace Plaza, 2710 Oak Lawn, Dallas, TX 75219. Click here to link to a Mapquest map of the location Registration: Registration is required due to limited space. In order to attend please register before June 14th, 2008. To register, email or call the NOCC DFW office with your name, phone number, and e-mail address as well as how many guests will be attending with you and the guest names. To call the NOCC DFW - 817-359-9072. To email: nocc_dfw@hotmail.com. SPECIAL MEETING: ANNUAL TEAL TALLY PARTY Fourth Annual Teal Tally Party: Our annual Teal Tally Party was held on March 29th with a record breaking turnout! This was a celebration of those women who have been fighting with ovarian cancer for 5 years or more - with each honored with a special gift. With family, friends, good food, and such inspirational women it was the usual joyous event! A special "Making A Difference" recognition was made to Donna Asher and Connie Reese for their dedication and loyalty during what has been a very difficult couple of years for them. The kind of dedication they have shown is truly above and beyond, and definitely Makes A Difference! As always we used this opportunity to also honor our Volunteer of the Year. This year the award went to Elaine Hildebrand who has been serving on the board, manning the survivors tent every year, and is at virtually every event. Whenever something is needed, Elaine is always ready to help. She is one of those quiet volunteers, behind the scenes making sure that everything runs so smoothly. Thank you, Elaine! Photos below are from various members. If you want copies of any of them sent to you by email contact Sharon. 2008 MEETING DATES: The 2007 meetings will be held on: February 2nd March 1st March 29th Teal Tally April 5th May 3rd June 7th July 5th August 2nd No September meeting due to holiday October 4th November 1st December 6th LEGISLATIVE OPPORTUNITIES: There are some very important legislative efforts going on right now which need your support. These include: Funding for Johanna's Law Funding for the DOD Congressionally Directed Research for ovarian cancer research You can help make a difference by contacting your senators. The more people who contact them, the better, so please have family members, friends, co-workers - everyone possible contact them. Christina Flanigan, who gave such a wonderful presentation at a recent Meeting on legislative efforts, can be reached for guidance by clicking here to email her. To assist you, here is what to say to your senators: 1. Be sure to thank the senators for all they ahve already done in passing Johanna's Law last year and for funding the Dept of Defence ovarian cancer research program. 2. Ask them to please support the $9 million in funding for Johanna's Law for the upcoming FY 2008 Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. This funding was authorized by Public Law 109-475, Johanna's Law, which was signed into law by the president in January. Senator Menendez is circulating a bi-partisan letter in support of this funding. 3. Ask them to please support the $20million in funding for the Dept of Defense's Congressionally Directed Research for ovarian cancer research in FY 2008 Defense Appropriations bill. Senators Snowe and Reed are circulating a bi-partisan letter in support of funding the ovarian, breast, and prostate cancer programs. In addition to saving Texas women or improving their chances at a better life after an ovarian cancer diagnosis, a significant portion of this funding goes to MD Anderson in Houston. Senators: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison or email the legislative assistant at William_McKee@hutchison.senate.gov. Senator John Cornyn or email the legislative assistant at Katherine_coughlin@cornyn.senate.gov. NOTES FROM PAST MEETINGS: The April meeting was a very, very special one - our 3rd Annual Teal Tally Party! We celebrated those survivors who have met and surpassed the milestone 5 year mark of survivorship and provided gifts to them, ate good food, talked, laughed, welcomed new volunteers and survivors....it was a wonderful time! Many thanks to all who helped out, but most particularly to the organizers - Donna Asher, Connie Reese, and Debra Roper. Our 5 year survivors included Liz, Mary Ann, Elaine, Kay, Diane, Donna, Susan, Kitna, Linda....ranging from 5 years to Diane, our 20 YEAR SURVIVOR!!!. Congratulations to all! You are inspirational! We also took this opportunity to award our 2007 Volunteer of the Year - Christy Flannigan! Many of you know of Christy from the emails we get regularly relating to legislative opportunities such as the recent passing of Johanna's Law. Without Christy's experience and expertise, most of us would have had no idea how to support this important initiative, and she continues to keep us apprised of what we can do from a legislative standpoint. She has been tireless in her efforts for the NOCC both locally and on a national level, as well as with OCNA. THANK YOU, CHRISTY!!! At meetings in 2006 and early 2007 Dr. Mark Messing did presentations at Meetings on topics requested by the volunteers. Dr. Messing, for those that don't know him, is a gynecological oncologist who serves on the DFW NOCC Advisory Board and has provided countless hours of volunteer work with our group. He has made numerous presentations to our group and we are very grateful for his efforts. He kindly allowed us to provide a summary of two of his recent presentations which can be downloaded by clicking below: Bowel Obstructions Presentation - Summary Notes Treatment Options Presentation including Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy - pdf file from the PowerPoint slides ADDRESS LABELS TO DOWNLOAD Tammi, one of our volunteers, developed some address labels with a teal ribbon them which you can print on standard label sheets in most printers (such as Avery labels). These are in Word format and all you need to do is change the address to your own and then print away! This is a great way to help increase awareness with every letter you mail! Click Here to download a label sheet which fits on the Avery 8257 Address Labels. Click Here to download a label sheet which fits on the Avery 8927 Address Labels. HOW CAN YOU HELP? Got ideas? Got suggestions? Let us know! You can come to the Meetings or email us at members@dfwovarian.org. Check out our Becoming Involved page for additional ideas. Attend Meetings! We need your ideas, your advice, your support. Our Meetings are designed to be fun, relaxing, and with lots of laughter! Please join us!