We Moved!

On September 4 the Central PA Chapter moved to 2405 Park Drive. We've unpacked, hung pictures and made our space home. It's amazing to see how far the office has come in the past six months!

The main hallway in July.

The main hallway now.

Welcome to our reception area. The boxes mean it's
Light The Night time. If you haven't registered for a walk team
and would like to do so, visit www.lightthenight.org/cpa.

To see more of our new space, please join us at our ribbon cutting celebration on Thursday, September 27 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Enjoy networking with business and community leaders, refreshments from area restaurants, and learn more about the many ways our researchers and volunteers are working every day to fight blood cancers in our community. If you would like to attend, RSVP by Monday, September 24 to tiffany.walter@lls.org.

The Simply the Best Gala is Right Around the Corner...

Let the countdown begin! The Radisson Hotel Harrisburg will host Harrisburg Magazine’s Simply the Best Gala this Thursday, August 30! This event was sold out early last month and features a silent auction that benefits The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)! Simply the Best winners have graciously donated items like a brand new Kindle Fire (Ed Gormley, Susquehanna Financial Advisors LLC), a framed Harrisburg canvas (Artworks Gallery and Custom Framing) and a number of wonderful gift baskets from various places.



A few of the Simply the Best auction items!



We are excited to congratulate all of this year’s winners while raising money and awareness to support our mission. If last year’s gala is any indication of how well the 2012 gala will go, it should be phenomenal. We look forward to seeing you there!

Celebrating Our Volunteers

On Thursday night The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Central PA Chapter held it's annual Volunteer Recognition and Celebration at The Hotel Hershey.

We think about and are grateful for our volunteers every day. They are the driving force behind our mission to cure blood cancers and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Volunteers may give of their time, talent and treasure because they have a connection or they want to join us in our important effort to save lives. For whatever reason they choose to volunteer, we are grateful to them.



Celebrating our volunteers at The Hotel Hershey. 



Our 2012 Awardees were:

Tom Garrett - Team In Training Hero Award

Dave Godfrey - Light The Night Hero Award

Abeer Srouji - Man & Woman of the Year Hero Award

Angela Miller - Summer Solstice Celebration Hero Award

Michelle Shriner - Patient Services Hero Award

Sue Leonard - Ski4Life Hero Award

JFC Staffing, Inc. - Executive Director's Award

Dustin Beaver and Ashley Fazekas - Patricia Donaldson Youth of the Year Award

Rick Atkinson - Board of Director's Award

Valenti Management - Corporate Award

Lori Reese - Buck Miller Award, Outstanding Volunteer of the Year

Brian Bucher - Winged Victory Award, Outstanding Patient Volunteer of the Year

Awards were also presented to Lindsay Coulter and Tania Srouji for each raising over $50,000 for the Harrisburg Man & Woman of the Year campaign and having the honor to sponsor an LLS researcher.

Check our Facebook page as more photos from volunteer recognition are posted.

Fishing for a Cure

The Capital Area Bass Masters fishing tournament to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) moved from Harrisburg to Sunbury this year, and the results are wonderful! Seventy-five boats participated and raised an impressive $16,145 for the mission. This brings the Capital Area Bass Masters fundraising total to $99,000 to beat blood cancers!　 Please join me in thanking event planner, and Central PA Chapter Trustee, Bob Herman

for his fundraising expertise and his dedication to our patients.

In addition to recruiting those who love to fish, Bob recruited many event sponsors including Computer Aid Inc. (CAI), the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, Tri-State Scrap, the PA Bass Federation Nation City and the city of Sunbury.

Pictured L to R: Frank Nanna, manager at Shikellamy State Park;
Dave Persing, Mayor of Sunbury; LLS staff Michaelean Crimmins and
Tiffany Walter; Capital City Bassmasters Mike Brown and Bob Herman; and
Harry Wert, owner of The Little Sportsman's Shop.

Thank you, Bob, for showing us how we can fish for a cure!

Striking Out Blood Cancer

On Saturday, July 28 over 70 softball fans took to the field at Lower Allen Community Park for the Fourth Annual Tori Kricher Memorial Softball Tournament. The event honors Tori Kricher, a remarkable little girl who lost her battle at the age of 10 due to an aggressive form of leukemia. To honor the memory of their loved one and raise funds for LLS, Tori's family looked to her favorite sport, softball.

Special thank you to the Harrisburg and Camp Hill locations of Philadelphia Cheesesteaks and Hoagies who donated their time and delicious subs for the event and to Erie Insurance who donated $3,500.00.





Mike Holder and April Kricher

 

Katie Gentile, Erie District Sales Manager Dave Jones, Glen Kricher,
and District Sales Manager Derek Taylor

This year's tournament raised over $8,000.00 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!

Welcome!

I’m honored to kick-off our very first blog for the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. We are eager to keep you up-to-date on our progress in the fight against blood cancer. A blog will allow us to do this without delay, without content limitations, and at no expense to the chapter.

For those of you who were readers of our printed newsletter (NewsLine) this marks a big change. We have moved NewsLine to the Central PA Chapter archives, and we are embracing this new technology with an open mind. If, like me, you can still remember when everything was printed on paper this just might take some getting used to! I’m grateful for your patience and continued interest in our patients and passion for our mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

A few of our brightest technology fans at the chapter (Grace Usdin, Amanda Holland, Laura MacNeill and Tiffany Walter) have been encouraging us (pleading really) to get with the times and get on with it already. I’m grateful for their persistence since truly, it would not have happened without them. Thank you Grace, Amanda, Laura and Tiffany for keeping our friends, patients, family members and supporters in mind.

Welcome to Mission in Motion!

Beth Mihmet
Executive Director