In this issue
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Making it count
Nora Kessel: beats cancer and fights back through Relay For Life

Fighting cancer, one integrin at a time
Dr. Cindy Miranti

In memory of her father
Kea Deppe: an all-around ACS volunteer

Fight Back this month at Indiana Lobby Day

What's your New Year's resolution?
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Health Check Quiz
Reduce your cancer risk

Healthy Recipe
Lemon cake with brandied blueberry sauce

GLO Grads
Savanna Rivest
Community Representative
Lakeshore Staff

Indiana Lobby Day
ACS Legislative Ambassador, Patty Avery is urging everyone to talk with their legislators and make a difference at Indiana Lobby Day

We’re taking the fight against cancer directly to our legislators once again at Indiana Lobby Day 2009.

This year, we’ll be discussing several critical issues with our elected officials. Along with passing a comprehensive statewide smokefree bill, we will ask them to fund cancer-related projects and consider the increasing need for clinical trials coverage.

It’s time for our legislators to act. As you may know, many workers don’t have a smokefree policy to protect them on the job. Studies show that individuals who work in smoke-filled buildings have higher cancer rates. Also, nonsmokers who work in bars and restaurants have a 50 percent higher risk of lung cancer than all other nonsmokers.

As Indiana’s State Lead Ambassador, I will never forget Rep. Charlie Brown’s message at last year’s Lobby Day. His 2008 smokefree bill had died in committee the week before, and I was still stinging from that defeat. Rep. Brown’s deep commitment to the fight for smokefree workplaces stirred renewed hope in all of us, and we promised him that if he introduced comprehensive smokefree legislation, we’d join him on the front lines of this fight.  

Lobby Day is your chance to make this the year Hoosier workplaces become smokefree. Fight Back through advocacy by speaking with your lawmaker about this and other important cancer related issues.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there and making our voices heard—this year louder than ever!

Lobby Day 2008 is scheduled, rain or shine, for Tuesday, January 27.  Registration will be open through Friday, January 9.  To register, go to www.acsgld.org/inlobbyday.