Executive Director's Report - Spring 2006
Well, what a great spring we are having. – We had our 4th Annual Auction Dinner on April 8th, 2008 at St Demetrious Greek Church, and what a resounding success it was. We raised $40,000 net profit and I would like to thank our Sponsors, Costco and Ikea for helping us make this such a great event, and we will be introducing some new programs in the next few months, more of which I will tell you about in our next Pathfinder.
Safeway’s Charity of Choice brought us another $47,000 from our Canisters in March, thanks for all the support in filling those canisters, and again we will use this money to implement new programs and research.
Our newly designed web-site at www.waparkinsons.org is now up and running, and if you would like to add anything to it, please feel free to contact me – we are always looking for new articles of interest.
We will be holding a Parkinson’s Retreat on September 29th and 30th, where we are hoping that all the Parkinson’s Groups and Organizations will come together for a discussion on how we can all work together for the same cause – helping to find a cure and ease the burden for Parkinson’s’ Patients
Our Annual Symposium will be held on November 18th, at the Sea-Tac Hilton – this year we are holding our Symposium along with the North West Parkinson Foundation, and it plans to be a great day, mark your calendar and more news will be posted on our web-site as the time draws near, and in our September Pathfinder
Our DVD still remains very popular throughout the country and the rest of the world, and recently we sent some to the Mohammad Ali Research Center in Arizona.
On a very important note, just because we have received large sums this spring, it does not mean that we don’t need your donations – we still do, there is much still to be done, so until we have found that cure, we need those envelopes with your donations – thanks and have a great summer
Evelynne Davis
Executive Director APDA