BOWLING BENEFIT STRIKES AT HEART OF CANCER.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer VALENCIA - The balls and the money kept rolling in Sunday during a bowlathon fund-raiser benefiting the City of Hope. The Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Friends, a newly formed fund-raising auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. group for the City of Hope National Medical Center City of Hope is one of 39 NCI-designated Cancer Centers and is located in the city of Duarte, California. City of Hope comprises an ambulatory and in-patient cancer treatment center as well as a biomedical research facility known as the Beckman Research Institute and the City of Hope and Beckman Research Institute The Beckman Research Institute (BRI) is a research facility affiliated with the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA. It is dedicated to studying normal and abnormal biological processes which may be related to cancer. , raised $10,000 in a Strike Out Cancer Bowlathon at the Valencia Lanes. ``To have this many people where we never had a chapter before is phenomenal,'' said Monica Solorzano, campaign coordinator for City of Hope, adding that 150 people showed up for the five-hour event. ``We wanted to bring some new blood into the City of Hope as well as do some outreach into the community.'' City of Hope is a national cancer institute known for its innovative research and treatment combating cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and other serious illnesses. The auxiliary group officially formed a couple of weeks ago will be the second in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. , joining the Friendly Valley Chapter, which formed in the 1970s. The two local groups are among 200 throughout California that help raise about one-fourth of the research and treatment center's $350 million budget. Last year, auxiliary groups raised $83 million. Besides the $10,000 raised at the bowlathon, officials said, they have raised an additional $12,000 within the community. ``People wanted to do this,'' said Darrell Carpenter, a City of Hope staff doctor who operates in the Santa Clarita Valley. ``They kept calling us. They were bursting at the seams.'' For the past four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time City of Hope has offered a variety of programs to local residents. ``We're not looking to raise money for the City of Hope in Duarte,'' Carpenter said. ``We're looking to raise awareness to have the City of Hope grow in the Santa Clarita Valley.'' Participants in the bowlathon were asked to seek pledges. There was also a silent auction, raffle and donations from various businesses within the community. ``We had people turn in as much as $500,'' Solorzano said. Pat Karam, 48, of Canyon Country came to the event with her husband Tony Karam and said that the event was not only fun but truly worthwhile. ``I believe in the cause,'' she said. ``I like to see cancer research and City of Hope come to this area.'' Pat Karam, who lost her mother to cancer a year ago, attends one of the local cancer support groups and is also a cancer survivor. Bob Charles Bob Charles may be:
``The City of Hope has already saved my life,'' Bob Charles said. Charles, who was diagnosed with low-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma non-Hodg·kin's lymphoma n. Any of various malignant lymphomas characterized by the absence of Reed-Sternberg cells. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma five years ago, said that another doctor told him he only had a couple of months to live. Now, with the help of City of Hope, which has been treating him for two years, he is in remission Extinguishment or release of a debt. A remission is conventional when it comes about through an express grant to the debtor by a creditor. It is tacit when the creditor makes a voluntary surrender of the original title to the debtor under private signature constituting the . ``Literally, you know that the money is saving someone's life,'' Charles said. ``To me, every fund-raiser could be saving someone's life. It's like performing miracles.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Dr. Darrell Carpenter takes aim at bowling pins during the Strike Out Cancer Bowlathon at Valencia Lanes. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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