Blankets for Cancer Patients

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:30–8:30 p.m.

470 South Mario Cappechi Drive, Salt Lake City

Contact: Michelle Brownell at 587-1345 (please leave a message)

MSA friends! We have a service opportunity coming up in February tying blankets for cancer patients again! The location is right up along Mario Cappechi Dr. (the old Wasatch Drive) at the University 2nd Ward. The address is north of the Madsen Family Health Clinic along Mario Cappechi Drive. It is the really big double pink ward building.
    We will be tying blankets for the patients of the Huntsman Cancer
Institute. The nurses there (where I used to work) sing to the patients and
present them with a blanket and diploma when they "graduate" and are
finished with their prescribed chemotherapy. They really appreciate
the things that people do for them.
    There will be babysitting offered as well as yummy refreshments!
Please bring fabric scissors if you have any. See you February 11th!

Thanks,
Michelle Brownell

Supporting the Jacobsons

Contact: Aimee Hansen at ahansen322@gmail.com

                Lindsay Nicholas at lindsay.nicholas@gmail.com

Many of you have generously supplied

meals and cleaning help for fourth-year medical student Trevor Jacobson and his family. We would like to continue to support the Jacobsons. Please contact Aimee if you would like to provide a meal, or contact Lindsay if you would like to help clean. Volunteers who would like to tend children while others clean are also appreciated.

Festival of Trees Review

Our tree was quite a success and a wonderful gift! The tree was purchased at the Opening Night Auction for $600. We helped patients at Primary Children's Hospital, and we also paid tribute to Amber Jacobson. We dedicated the tree to her and displayed her picture with it. Our theme was "Heal the World," suggesting that health is a global problem and that good doctors are needed everywhere. We made globe ornaments, some with people on them holding hands around the world. There was also a garland made of paper dolls. Our other ornaments were nurses that look like snowmen, colorful pill bottles, and hearts being healed by band-aids. All these ornaments were handmade and we had so much help from MSA members in making them! Under the tree, we played the song "Heal the World" and displayed a toy medical kit along with items reminiscent of a doctor's office: jars filled with cotton balls, tongue depressors, and candy rewards for getting shots, as well as a basket with books and magazines. Again, thanks for all the support, and in particular, we'd like to make special mention of Melissa Burrow, Sami Jones, Jen London and Julie Randall, who put in many hours to make the tree a success.  It was a wonderful service for the children!

Laurel Brennan, Festival of Trees