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Let's Go Bowling!
The 1000+ employees of the Walgreens Distribution Center in Windsor are doing some special fundraising this spring to support Badger Childhood Cancer Network. We are thrilled by their enthusiasm for helping families of local kids with cancer!
A group of employees is hosting a Bowling Fundraiser at Rude's Lanes in DeForest on Saturday, April 21st at 1 pm. Your admission fee gets you 3 games of bowling, shoe rental and food! $20/Adults, $10/Kids. Register by April 13th by calling or emailing our office, 608-231-8006, info@badgerchildhoodcancer.org.
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Arrows For Cancer Archery Tournament May 19th and 20th
3-D Archery Tournament at
Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 4 pm
$10 adults, $6 youth 12-16,
$5 kids 11 and under
Participants bring their own archery equipment
Food and Refreshments available
Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!
Learn more about how 3-D Tournaments work on the Oregon Sportsman's Club website
For more information, contact Tournament Chair Steve Anderson, sctaand@chorus.net
A note to peds heme-onc families: Archery instructors will be at the club on Saturday to give a free archery lesson to BCCN kids (patients and siblings) on the indoor range from 10am to 2pm!
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Can You Help?
-- Madison Marathon will donate $8.00 to us for each hour you volunteer to help at their event over Memorial Day weekend. Just sign up at their volunteer site and choose Badger Childhood Cancer Network as your organization!-- We are always in need of new coloring books, baby board books and blank hardcover journals for our New Diagnosis bags. We need colors and subjects that could appeal to either a boy or a girl, since we pack the bags by age but not gender. Donations can be dropped off at our office on Segoe Road.
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We Offer Our Grateful Thanks to
These Recent Donors!
Alliant Energy Employees
American Transmission Company
Group Health Cooperative
Kappa Psi
TDS Telecom
Tommy Valentino
UW Badger Athletics and the National W Club |
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This newsletter is
dedicated to the memory of
Mitchell Riley
Eagle Scout, Knight of Columbus and K-State Wildcat.
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Did You Know?
We pay for emergency car repairs so families of kids with cancer can make it to scheduled treatments with no delay. We are often able to get them back on the road the same day!
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Information is Power!
Online Conferences on Childhood and Teen Cancer Topics
American Childhood Cancer Organization is hosting a web conference on Proton Radiation therapy on April 25th at 1 pm. Click here for more information and a link to register.
This Week in Pediatric Oncology on the Solving Kids Cancer website has a great series of 24 podcasts (with more on the way) that you can listen to on a variety of childhood cancer subjects. The most recent podcasts are on cord blood banking and important recent findings on neuroblastoma.
National Children's Cancer Society offers an informative series of web conferences for families titled Your Child Has Cancer - Now What??? Listen to previous webinars online or register to take part in future ones. These include: April 3: Knowledge is Power- What You Need to Know and How to Find It April 17: Help Your Child Adapt and Grow May 1: What About Your Other Kids?
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Check out our web site:
Click the Button Below to donate:
 Badger Childhood Cancer Network 517 N Segoe Rd #100 PO Box 5624 Madison, WI 53705 608.231.8006 info@badgerchildhoodcancer.org . . . because kids can't fight cancer alone!
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The Spring Party
brought LOTS of smiles!
Who can stifle the urge to jump, climb, and play
when it's 80 degrees on St. Patrick's Day?
We enjoyed rope climbing, tumbling, skee-ball, electronic bowling, the jumping pit, ping-pong, bingo and more at Legacy Academy in Fitchburg! Kids and parents painted miniature birdhouses and tried their hand at balloon twisting. Many thanks to our energetic and fun volunteers from UW's Kappa Psi pharmacy fraternity. At the end of the party, the Kappa Psi members posed with some of the kids to present Party Chair Elizabeth Sieger with a check for $200 that they raised selling bagels!
Click any photo to see more pictures on our website:   
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Alliant Energy Employees'
Bowling Classic
On Thursday, March 8, employees from Alliant Energy raised nearly $15,000 at their annual Bowling Classic and silent auction for Badger Childhood Cancer Network! BCCN kid Kennedy and her family spoke about all the ways their support will help area kids and teens with cancer. THANK YOU Alliant Employees!
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Monthly Childhood Cancer Family Support Group
Wednesday, April 4th
6 pm
a parent-led support group sponsored by Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
Dinner to order from the
Green Tree Grill
Young people are supervised by graduate student volunteers while adults have chat time.
FUN activities for kids and teens including indoor mini-golf, arcade play, heated driving range, games, crafts - something for everyone!
Drop in with your family!
Free of charge for families of
kids and teens with cancer
Family Support Meetings at Vitense Golfland
Every 1st Wednesday in 2012 except July 4th.
Questions? Call 608.231.8006 for more info!
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Childhood Cancer Awareness
Blood Drive Wednesday, April 25
Most kids and teens with cancer need very aggressive chemotherapy which affects their ability to make red blood cells and platelets, so they receive a lot of blood products. Many kids with sickle cell disease also need red blood cell transfusions to stay healthy and avoid painful and dangerous effects of their disease.
A very special mom, Robyn Jeffords, has organized a Childhood Cancer Awareness Blood Drive at Prairie Creek Church 6484 N. Bird St in Sun Prairie on Wednesday, April 25th from 1 to 6 pm. You can save a life in two ways: 1) give a pint of precious whole blood (you'll get cookies!) to save a life locally and 2) get your cheek swabbed to join the Bone Marrow Registry and potentially save the life of someone anywhere in the world. Please give blood and please spread the word! Download the flyer with all the information about the Blood Drive and print or email it to share.
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BCCN Bass Invitational
August 5th on Lake Wisconsin
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Suzy's Run/Walk 2012 is
Sunday, September 2nd!
Keva Sports Center, Middleton
Start training to compete in the 5K or the 10K! Get a team together! School and youth groups, scout troops, employee teams - come out to help us raise funds to provide financial and transportation assistance for families of kids with cancer. Help us raise awareness of the impact of childhood cancer, the #1 disease killer of children in Wisconsin. Suzy's Run/Walk is the most fun and inspiring walk/run event around, with honorary chair Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton and our special kids to cheer you on, a flat, fast route for both the 5K and 10K, and fresh chocolate chip cookies at the finish line! Lots of fun kids activities, including a Pirates and Princesses Kids' Run, face painting, an amazing bouncy castle and field games. Mark your calendar and round up your team!
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Dear Friends--
This spring and summer we are greatly blessed to have fundraisers being conducted on behalf of BCCN by generous organizations and businesses that reflect so many of the relaxing and fun activities available in our beautiful part of the country. You can support area families of kids and teens with cancer by taking part in bowling, archery, bass fishing and putting your sneakers on to volunteer at the Madison Marathon. And of course, we hope you will come out to run or walk with Olympian Suzy Favor Hamilton at the 6th annual Suzy's Run/Walk on Labor Day weekend to honor and remember the courage and grace of kids who are fighting cancer in our area.
Please help us spread the word. Can you forward this newsletter to at least one friend or relative who might want to FISH, BOWL, SHOOT or RUN to make life easier for local kids with cancer and blood disorders? THANK YOU!
Anne Spurgeon Executive Director
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