LIVESTRONG Army Campout Against Cancer

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Marion County LIVESTRONG Army Campout Against Cancer 2009August 7th 2009The 1st LIVESTRONG Army Event in Marion County is taking shapeand we need your help! Volunteers are needed to recruit donations forthe raffle, bingo prizes, and monetary donations to help cover theevent and to meet our local goals. One local goal is to have a localcancer advocate available to meet patients where they are to helpassess their needs and match them with resources.Join us at Hickory Grove Lake Campground 805 Hoch Rd., Marion, Ohio http://www.hikercentral.com/campgrounds/108974.htmlAugust 7th 2009, events and speakers all day with set-up at 10am and aband and music at night, then campout the rest of the weekend and enjoyyour friends and family! Events end the night of the 7th, butyou can Camp all weekend and enjoy socializing for $25 a night, butspaces are filling up, so register soon! We are also happy to announce the bloodmobile will be on-site from 1-7pm, so roll up your sleeve!Please feel free to call us on our message line at 740-251-4610to register for a spot, pass out flyers, volunteer, if you havequestions, if your business would host a flyer, to reserve a campsite(although you can contact Hickory Grove directly also), or to make adonation. We are still taking reservations, so please contact Wendy atthe message line right away!Primrose facility will have a concession stand, there will befree makeovers for patients/survivors by Mary Kay, cancer patients andsurvivors will be able to have escorted paddleboat rides and fishing,we hope to have bingo and more events as volunteers and donations rollin! There will also be various speakers through the day. Call if youragency or organization wants to sign up free!At the event, we will be giving out freebies for cancerpatients/survivors including LIVESTRONG survivor books with resourcesand support articles in them! There will also be various communityinformational booths set up.We have an online donation page here: http://chromedaffodils.chipin.com/livestrong-army-campout-against-cancer if you want to support the event but are unable to attend.Facebook event signup here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105108931193Thank you so much and we hope to see you at the Campout!

Hello!I am the Marion County LIVESTRONG ArmyLeader and a Global LIVESTRONG Delegate. I am also an alumni of MTC and Franklin University. I went through cancertreatment a couple of years after my graduation at MTC and struggled tocomplete classes at Franklin University whilereceiving home health care in bed. Thank goodness for prayers and my laptop! Idid eventually graduate with a bachelors in Business and marketing. I am stillfighting to get back to normal and in the process have a great desire to giveback to the community that supported me through my families very rough time. Itis still an uphill journey, but the battle was won. In the process of mytreatment we always had to watch my blood count, which often fell far belowanything acceptable and withoutblood donors, I would have died. I was given about12 units of blood throughouttreatment, which saved my life. This is why it is so important to me to have asuccessful blood drive and to reach outto others affected by cancer to empower their journey and help them get thebest resources available so they can make the best decisions for them and theirsituation. I hope you will join the community in reaching out to our cancer community. If you would like toset up a booth, that would be great. If you could at least put up flyers,wonderful! If you could donate time, items or monetary help, we reallyappreciate it.