2012 CureSearch Walk

A video of some of Utah's cancer fighting cuties!

Join us at the SLC CureSearch Walk

Saturday, September 29th
Sugar House Park
1300 South 2100 East
Salt Lake City, Utah

Start your own team

or donate

to childhood cancer research.

Mark your calendar!

CureSearch Kick-off and Fundraising Training

Wednesday, April 25th

7:00 pm

North Salt Lake, Utah

Please email umwcfc@gmail.com  for driving directions

We will be discussing the upcoming CureSearch walk. We will have fundraising ideas, sponsor information, and we can even help you start your team that night! Light refreshments will be served.  We have decided to showcase our Utah cancer cuties at the walk! Please make a poster (on standard poster board) about your cancer cutie, include pictures and a brief explanation of their treatment. We will display the posters all over the park for walkers to read that day. It will be very touching. Bring these posters to this event or no later than September 22nd.

Childhood Cancer Supporters

There are always great things going on to support childhood cancer.

It is wonderful to see the good others in this world are doing.

As always, feel free to share these with your friends!

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 To support Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation

LEGO friends event at Toys "R" Us Stores

Saturday, Feb. 4th

12:00-2:00

This special event being held at Toys"R"Us stores across the country lets you experience the brand new building craze, LEGO® Friends, and support Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) in the fight against childhood cancer! LEGO will hold an exclusive event at participating Toys”R”Us stores on Saturday, February 4 from 12 to 2 pm, where children can create a complimentary LEGO Friends lemonade stand to take home. For each stand built, The LEGO Group will donate $1 to ALSF*!

*Up to $10,000 to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

Limit one per child, quantities are limited.
 

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To support CureSearch

25 Limited Edition Skinny Cow Candy Bowls

for sale on Ebay until Feb. 5

100% of proceeds support CureSearch

Bowl details:

10’ ceramic Skinny Cow Candy Bowl

Bowls are individually marked 1-25

Designed in collaboration with Sarah and Ingrid Harbaugh, sisters-in-law and wives of legendary pro football coaches

Bottoms up, ladies! This bowl is bottomless and includes a year’s supply of Skinny Cow Candy

Bid HERE on Ebay!

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To support CureSearch: School Support

The CureSearch site now has a section titled

"School Support"

that covers practical suggestions for parents, teachers, school administrators, and classmates in keeping the cancer child involved in school.  There are sections on Guidance for Parents, Guidance for School Personnel, and Learning Problems During or After Treatment.

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Gold The New Pink Awareness Products

100% of proceeds go to support CureSearch

Until Jan. 27th use this code: 15WINTERSALE

to get 15% off

GOLD: The New Pink! exists to help raise awareness for childhood cancer. These products give you an easy way to spark conversations with the people you meet every day. Show your support for our kids with these items and spread the word! In addition, 100% of the proceeds from your purchase go directly to CureSearch.

I got this awesome bumper sticker and customized iphone cover!

CLICK HERE to shop!

Megan McNeil "The Will To Survive"

In 2010 I came across a music video that touched my heart.  I wasn't only impressed with the lyrics, but because it was actually written and performed by a cancer patient, Megan McNeil, and other children who were fighting cancer.  Megan was diagnosed with Adrenalcortical Carcinoma Cancer at age 16.  She beat back cancer 3 times, but succumbed to it during her 4th battle on January 28, 2011 at age 20.

Megan McNeil made a difference in this world, she spent much of her time and energy to campaign for childhood cancer.

From Megan's Obituary...

"Megan captured hearts across North America and even overseas for her tireless campaign promoting childhood cancer awareness. She wrote a beautiful song about the childhood cancer journey called “The Will to Survive” that legendary producer Garth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Nickelback) produced. Emerging star Ryan McMahon arranged the song and provided backup vocals.

Megan and “The Will to Survive” were featured on media outlets across the United States and Canada, with Canada AM naming her campaign one of the best stories of 2010 and CBC’s Connect with Mark Kelley naming her the most inspirational person of the year.

As Megan’s time to depart this earth grew near, she requested that those who love her continue her campaign to end childhood cancer through her song “The Will to Survive.”

As a gesture of remembrance, the family asks anyone wishing to honour Megan to download her song from iTunes and share The Will to Survive video on YouTube with those they treasure. Funds raised by downloads of Megan’s song benefit BCCCPA (British Columbia Children Cancer Parents' Association) and The James Fund."

Read more about Megan McNeil

Chili's Helps HopeKids on Nov. 7th

Let your family, friends, and neighbors know how they can help.

Feel free to share this on your blog, email, facebook, etc.

 

**Attention**

Logan

West Valley

Sandy

American Fork

Layton

Chili's is willing to donate 15% of sales to HopeKids!

Monday, November 7th

3:00pm - 10:00pm

 

PRINT THE FLYER

**For HopeKids to get 15% you MUST print this flyer and give it to your server** 

HopeKids offers continuous hope and support 

to families with a child with cancer 

or other life threatening illness.

A big thanks to Chili's!

 

 

Gold: The New Pink Awareness Products

Spread awareness!

Every dollar earned goes directly to CureSearch!

so......

Visit the Gold: The New Pink Store

to get t-shirts, hoodies, magnets, bumper stickers, key chains, mugs, aprons, buttons, post cards, mouse pads, and the NEW iPhone 3 & 4, iPhone touch, Samsung Galaxy, & Blackberry Curve & Bold covers!

 Get the NEW phone cases for 25% off until Oct. 16th

use this code: CASEMATESALE at check-out

Gold: the new pink?
 

Pink. It's everywhere you turn. From women's hair removal gadgets, to football team uniforms. The pink ribbon, symbolizing breast cancer awareness has become a marketing phenomenon like no other when it comes to raising awareness for a social issue. Our desire is to raise awareness for an equally important issue; childhood cancer. As a society, we like to say that “children are our future.” If we truly believe children are our future; why do we sit idly by while more than 12,000 children in the United States are ravaged by this disease each year, and approximately 3,000 die from it each year? Worldwide, 80,000 to 100,000 children die from a form of childhood cancer every year. EVERY YEAR! If we truly believed that children were our future, and our future was being threatened by this evil, would we not do something? We commit billions of dollars each year to protecting our country, and yet do so little to protect the generation to come from a disease that comes silently and kills so many.

Gold: The New Pink exists, not to take away from the efforts that have been made to advance the cause of breast cancer awareness or to suggest that breast cancer awareness is not as important, but rather to elevate the cause of childhood cancer to equal stature. So much more funding is given to adult cancers than for childhood cancer. The parents of children stricken by cancer want to level the playing field.

The Creating Hope Act

Recently many of us received an e-mail from CureSearch that talked about contacting your local representatives and encouraging them to vote for the Creating Hope Act.  

I wish they had put these words in their email.....

The Creating Hope Act is...

"...legislation that would incentivize pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for rare pediatric diseases, such as childhood cancers, that have not been developed in decades because they are not profitable ... the Creating Hope Act of 2011 ... would expand the cost-neutral Food and Drug Administration priority review voucher (PRV) program, allowing pharmaceutical companies to expedite FDA review of more profitable drugs in return for developing treatments for rare pediatric diseases.  Since 1980, the FDA has approved only one drug for treatment of childhood cancer, compared to 50 for adults."
(Read more HERE on the Childhood Cancer Caucus Website)

Oh, boy! This is something we should be shouting out on our rooftops.

Finally, finally, finally something can be done to get more treatments for childhood cancer.

Our own Utah Representatives are not listed as supporting the the Creating Hope Act, but with a minutes time we could each hopefully get Utah's representatives in support of this important Act.  There is an easy on-line form that you can "fill-in" with a few sentences about why this is important to you and have e-mailed directly to our Representatives.

CLICK HERE 

to get to the online "fill-in" form

 

You can read the House Bill HERE

AWARENESS-

September is...

 Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!

Gold is the color of Childhood Cancer. Wear it proudly.

This terrible disease can happen to ANY child at ANY time, lets do all we can to help find the cause and cure!

This is a video of some of our local cancer cuties.  Some are off treatment, others are still going through treatment and sadly some have lost their fight with cancer.
ALL of them are the bravest kids around-

You can visit these sites for info and to donate-

www.wackywarriors.org

curechildhoodcancer.ning.com

www.curesearch.org

www.stjude.org

www.goldthenewpink.net

www.alexslemonade.org

www.cookiesforkidscancer.org

www.curechildhoodcancer.ning.com

www.stbaldricks.org

www.gladtogive.com

www.crochetforcancer.blogspot.com

*if you work for a corporation, tell them that September is the month to think of these kids who are battling for their lives.  Encorage them to donate to one of these charities this year.

--I also want to mention that Chili's is supporting St. Jude all month long and on September 26th they are donating ALL profits to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. If you can do nothing more, please go eat at Chili's on September 26th.