Fraser Valley Climb for prostate cancer team complete Red Cross wilderness first course. Thank you to Christine our course instructor and the Chilliwack Leisure center our sponsor for the course.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wilderness 1st Aid With Fraser Valley Team
Fraser Valley Climb for prostate cancer team complete Red Cross wilderness first course. Thank you to Christine our course instructor and the Chilliwack Leisure center our sponsor for the course.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Hans Van Roos joined several members of the CFPC team at the Rotary Breakfast on February 13th. Hans is an avid hiker and one of the leaders of the Chilliwack Outdoors Club. He has also been very helpful and supportive to several of the CFPC members over the years in his capacity as salesman for Vedder Mountain Field Supplies.
All of this is made more poignant by the fact that Hans is currently undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. His courage as he battles the disease was made evident by his willingness to come to the breakfast and offer some advice to the audience. We will be thinking particularly of Hans as we climb Mt. Aconcagua.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thank You Leisure Chilliwack- Training Begins!
The CFPC team has started core training in preparation for the Climb.
I would like to extend a special thank you on behalf of the team to the Chilliwack leisure center for their on-going support.
We appreciate your top notch facility to include the pool, trainers and weight rooms.
THANK YOU LaureLee
I would like to extend a special thank you on behalf of the team to the Chilliwack leisure center for their on-going support.
We appreciate your top notch facility to include the pool, trainers and weight rooms.
THANK YOU LaureLee
Dr Cox Visit Chilliwack Rotary Breakfast
Associate Professor, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia
Senior Scientist, The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver Coastal health Research Institute
B.Sc. Zoology, Auburn University, AL 1982
M.Sc. Zoology, Auburn University, AL 1985
Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, NC 1991
PDF. Microbiology, University of Virginia, VA
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men. The cause of this disease is unknown. Dr. Michael Cox is a molecular and cellular biologist who earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina who began his work in prostate cancer at the University of Virginia. His research program is dedicated to understanding how prostate cancer initiates and progresses and to finding ways of halting advanced disease progression. Dr. Cox’s research is funded by the Terry Fox Foundation, National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Hospital Foundation and the British Columbia Foundation for Prostate Disease. His work focuses on early genetic changes in prostate cells, how resulting tumor cells respond to growth factors in the presence or absence of testosterone and these cellular changes allow prostate tumor cells to utilize these growth factors to aid development of testosterone independence. With colleagues at the University of British Columbia, he is developing antisense and small molecule drug strategies that decrease the responsiveness of tumor cells to growth factors and has shown that prostate cancer cells treated in this way are more sensitive to testosterone deprivation or treatment with other chemotherapies; first steps in developing effective treatments for patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Senior Scientist, The Vancouver Prostate Centre, Vancouver Coastal health Research Institute
B.Sc. Zoology, Auburn University, AL 1982
M.Sc. Zoology, Auburn University, AL 1985
Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of North Carolina, NC 1991
PDF. Microbiology, University of Virginia, VA
Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men. The cause of this disease is unknown. Dr. Michael Cox is a molecular and cellular biologist who earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of North Carolina who began his work in prostate cancer at the University of Virginia. His research program is dedicated to understanding how prostate cancer initiates and progresses and to finding ways of halting advanced disease progression. Dr. Cox’s research is funded by the Terry Fox Foundation, National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Hospital Foundation and the British Columbia Foundation for Prostate Disease. His work focuses on early genetic changes in prostate cells, how resulting tumor cells respond to growth factors in the presence or absence of testosterone and these cellular changes allow prostate tumor cells to utilize these growth factors to aid development of testosterone independence. With colleagues at the University of British Columbia, he is developing antisense and small molecule drug strategies that decrease the responsiveness of tumor cells to growth factors and has shown that prostate cancer cells treated in this way are more sensitive to testosterone deprivation or treatment with other chemotherapies; first steps in developing effective treatments for patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Liesure Centre Sponsored Wilderness First Aid Course
Hi All,
The Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre sponsored Wilderness First Aid Course will take place on;
March 27th, 5PM to 9PM, March 28th 8AM to 5PM and March 29th 8AM to 5PM. For those of you who will attend and have Outlook please mark your calendars for these dates. This will also be added to our Team Calendar. Further information will be posted here as we receive it.
Location of Training:
Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre
Upstairs in the Meeting room beside the Gym.
Unit #1 - 9145 Courbould Street, Chilliwack, V2P 4A7
Call me if you have any questions: 604 792-9029
The Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre sponsored Wilderness First Aid Course will take place on;
March 27th, 5PM to 9PM, March 28th 8AM to 5PM and March 29th 8AM to 5PM. For those of you who will attend and have Outlook please mark your calendars for these dates. This will also be added to our Team Calendar. Further information will be posted here as we receive it.
Location of Training:
Chilliwack Landing Liesure Centre
Upstairs in the Meeting room beside the Gym.
Unit #1 - 9145 Courbould Street, Chilliwack, V2P 4A7
Call me if you have any questions: 604 792-9029
Friday, January 2, 2009
Rockin in the New Year
My band, Head Over Heels, played a gala New Years Eve Dance at the Chilliwack Rainbow Country Inn and the hotel allowed me to set up a CFPC display table. I brought my Imac in and set up the PPT slideshow to loop continuously through the night with a few slides that invited viewers to "talk to the drummer for further information about the CFPC".
I had one gentleman, John Mossinkoff (the lead singer's dad) approach me about doing fundraising for us in the new year. He was very enthusiastic and I think he will be a powerful addition to the network.
Several others were watching the PPT and took brochures from the display table....its a start!
To see the band click here. If anyone wants to set up some events that include live music, contact me at aults@yahoo.com
Happy New Year, Team Aconcagua
I had one gentleman, John Mossinkoff (the lead singer's dad) approach me about doing fundraising for us in the new year. He was very enthusiastic and I think he will be a powerful addition to the network.
Several others were watching the PPT and took brochures from the display table....its a start!
To see the band click here. If anyone wants to set up some events that include live music, contact me at aults@yahoo.com
Happy New Year, Team Aconcagua
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
It may well be those who dream, do most... S. Leacock...
Christmas in Newfoundland is a wonderous, wild and wooly experience! But the most amazing part of this experience is that the people who live here mirror in their spirits this wonderous, wild and wooly quality.
The Newfoundland people are without a doubt an insipiration for all Canadians and especially for our team and the challenge that lays ahead.
As an example; I met a Canadian author, Paul O'Neill, his publisher, Gavin Will of boulder publications and purchased a great history book that Paul wrote called 'The Oldest City'. Paul is 80 years old, he and Gavin offered to deliver the book to our daughter's home in St. John's, but I offered to make it easy and meet them at the local Chapters where they were doing a book signing the next day, they agreed. However in typical Newfoundland fashion the weather in all it's wild and wooly nature prevented us from connecting. Once the storm had abated, later that same evening, who should show up at our front door, bearing the signed copy of 'The Oldest City', but Gavin, making sure I had the book before Christmas... Only in Newfoundland....
I have experienced this many times, in many ways over the past 3 years of visiting this incredible, austere place we aptly name 'The Rock', for in the stone is etched a history of suffering and celebration that runs as deep as the Atlantic itself.
The CFPC - Climb For Prostate Cancer posters and brochures are being displayed in St. John's Newfoundland, at the Boston Pizza and also at the Eastern Health Centre. The brochures will be spreading the awareness, spreading the news and extending the journey from Coast to Coast.
From 'The Oldest City' Paul quotes in Chapter 10 - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" - Robert Louis Stevenson. Our journey, like our vision is full of hope, we have arrived....
To all of the CFPC Team members, from the eastern edge of North America..... as I stand on the rocks off Cape Spears, amidst the wind, snow and ice, the ocean spray breaking over the rocks below, to the East is Portugual, to the South the Eastern Edge of Argentina, where we will all be standing this time next year..... A Merry Christmas, talk to you all Jan 5th....
Kind Regards, Ken & Sue
The Newfoundland people are without a doubt an insipiration for all Canadians and especially for our team and the challenge that lays ahead.
As an example; I met a Canadian author, Paul O'Neill, his publisher, Gavin Will of boulder publications and purchased a great history book that Paul wrote called 'The Oldest City'. Paul is 80 years old, he and Gavin offered to deliver the book to our daughter's home in St. John's, but I offered to make it easy and meet them at the local Chapters where they were doing a book signing the next day, they agreed. However in typical Newfoundland fashion the weather in all it's wild and wooly nature prevented us from connecting. Once the storm had abated, later that same evening, who should show up at our front door, bearing the signed copy of 'The Oldest City', but Gavin, making sure I had the book before Christmas... Only in Newfoundland....
I have experienced this many times, in many ways over the past 3 years of visiting this incredible, austere place we aptly name 'The Rock', for in the stone is etched a history of suffering and celebration that runs as deep as the Atlantic itself.
The CFPC - Climb For Prostate Cancer posters and brochures are being displayed in St. John's Newfoundland, at the Boston Pizza and also at the Eastern Health Centre. The brochures will be spreading the awareness, spreading the news and extending the journey from Coast to Coast.
From 'The Oldest City' Paul quotes in Chapter 10 - "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive" - Robert Louis Stevenson. Our journey, like our vision is full of hope, we have arrived....
To all of the CFPC Team members, from the eastern edge of North America..... as I stand on the rocks off Cape Spears, amidst the wind, snow and ice, the ocean spray breaking over the rocks below, to the East is Portugual, to the South the Eastern Edge of Argentina, where we will all be standing this time next year..... A Merry Christmas, talk to you all Jan 5th....
Kind Regards, Ken & Sue
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