ADVISORY/LTN 2000 To Be Kicked Off With 'Power Breakfast' this Wednesday.Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday Wednesday: see week. (June 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
To: Assignment Editors, News Directors, City/Metro Editors, Bureau
Managers
Fr: Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society
Re: LTN 2000 To Be Kicked Off With "Power Breakfast" this
Wednesday
WHO: More than two dozen corporate leaders from throughout Eastern
Pennsylvania
WHAT: Will get a preview of the second annual Light The Night Walk,
an event that last year raised more than $4.7 million
nationally to help find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma and
other blood-related cancers, at a Power Breakfast hosted by
Nextel Communications
WHEN: This Wednesday morning (June 21st), from 8:00 a.m. to
9 o'clock
WHERE: In the Mayor's Conversation Room (Philadelphia City Hall,
Room 201)
WHY: To encourage local businesses to celebrate and commemorate
lives touched by cancer by entering teams of walkers in this
year's evening walk
Details: Tim Enright, general manager of Nextel's Philadelphia Market and corporate recruitment chairman for this year's Light The Night Walk, will invite area businesses to join Nextel as a local sponsor and/or field a team of walkers to raise funds for research and other programs. Philadelphia Mayor John Street will serve as honorary chairman of the 2000 Light The Night Walk, scheduled for Saturday evening, September 23rd along Boathouse Row Boathouse Row is an historic site located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. It consists of a row of boathouses housing racing shells. . Simultaneous events conducted around the country by the Leukemia leukemia (l  kē`mēə), cancerous disorder of the blood-forming tissues (bone marrow, lymphatics, liver, spleen) characterized by excessive production of immature or mature & Lymphoma lymphoma, a cancer of the tissue of the lymphatic system. There are two categories of lymphomas. One type is termed Hodgkin's disease, the other, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (see lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's). See also neoplasm. Society are
expected to raise more than $10 million to help improve the quality of
life among those impacted by leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease Hodgkin's disease, a type of cancer of the lymphatic system. First identified in 1832 in England by Thomas Hodgkin, it is a type of malignant lymphoma. Incidence peaks in young adults and the elderly. and myeloma myeloma /my·elo·ma/ (mi?e-lo´mah) a tumor composed of cells of the type normally found in the bone marrow.giant cell myeloma see under tumor (1). . NEWS AND PHOTO COVERAGE ARE INVITED |
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