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Iowa Chapter Newsletter

July 5, 2017

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General LLS

Welcome

Local News

Meet Our 2017-18 Iowa Chapter Board

Mark Your Calendar

LLS National News Updates

Light The Night

Register Your Team Today!

Exciting New Event Attraction for 2017

Light The Night Kick-Off Party

The 2017 Executive Challenge Is On!

Man & Woman of the Year

Central Iowa - Record Breaking Year

Eastern Iowa Grand Finale Pictures

Student Series

Thank You Iowa Schools

Our Top 10 Schools

Outreach Assistant Position Available

Team In Training

GO TEAM! We hit our goal!

Iowa's Top Fundraisers

Become a Team Captain

Check Out Our Upcoming Events

Join Us at the Iowa Cubs

From the LLS Blog

General LLS

Welcome

Welcome to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Iowa Chapter Monthly Newsletter.

Please enjoy the latest updates and news from your Iowa LLS Staff:  

Executive Director: Melanie Brown
Campaign Director, Man & Woman of the Year: Sharon Keeling
Business Development Manager, Team In Training: Jeannine Laughlin
Campaign Manager, Light The Night: Mary Ann Amundson
Campaign Manager, Student Series: Jorden Allen
Campaign Specialist, All Campaigns: Keena Roberts
Campaign Assistant, All Campaigns: Judy Kennedy
Bookkeeper: Holly Stevens


 If you have questions regarding information in the Newsletter, please contact the Iowa Chapter office at 515.270.6169 or by email at keena.roberts@lls.org 


Local News

Subaru Loves to Care Promise 

Subaru blanket delivery Cedar Rapids
(Pictured above:Dave Wright Subaru and LLS deliver blankets to families at the Helen Nassif Community Cancer Center in Cedar Rapids, IA.)

 

For the second year in a row, Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) will spread love, hope and warmth to cancer patients and their families in communities across the country.

In June, Subaru and LLS brought the Subaru Loves to Care initiative to life at 475 Subaru retailers across the country. Visitors to Subaru retailers were given the chance to share personalized messages of hope to patients in their local communities, or write an online message of support at www.lls.org/subaru. Those who wrote a message of hope at a Subaru retailer also received a bracelet to help spread awareness of LLS and the automaker’s goal to provide hope and care, one gesture at a time.

In July, Subaru retailers will deliver nearly 95,000 messages of hope to patients alongside 38,000 blankets to provide comfort and warmth as they continue their fight against cancer, while children battling the disease will receive arts and crafts kits.

The Iowa Chapter would like to Thank the following Subaru Retailers: Ramsey Subaru (Urbandale), Dave Wright Subaru (Hiawatha), C & S Car Company (Waterloo), Riley Subaru (Dubuque), Jensen Subaru (Sioux City) for their local partnership. In Iowa, we will deliver 400 blankets and 50 craft kits to local hospitals. 

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(Pictured above: The blanket and messages of hope being delivered)

THANK YOU SUBARU!


  LLS Chipotle Day 

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(Pictured above: Some of the LLS Staff enjoying their Chipotle at the Valley West Mall)

On June 21, LLS partnered regionally with the Chipotle Mexican Grill raising $27,000 in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. Chipotle donated 50% of the proceeds from each person that mentioned LLS in the store. The following 11 Chipotle's participated in Iowa: Dubuque, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids (2), Iowa City, Sioux City, Des Moines, West Des Moines (2), Ames and Ankeny.

Thank to all the stores and to all those that participated in Iowa!


 

Meet Our 2017-18 Iowa Chapter Board

Board Officers:

President - Michelle Henaman, Aetna
Vice President - Chad Stevens, City State Bank
Treasurer - Kim Babberl, Wellmark
Secretary - Brian Bahnsen, Wells Fargo

Board At Large:

Tami Becker, State of Iowa
Bryce Block, City State Bank
Mike Collins, Denman & Company, LLP
Spencer Cox, Morgan Stanley
BJ Knapp, Iowa Realty
Carrie Kruse, City of Des Moines
Jill Lambert, Homesteaders Life Co.
Daniel Lusche, University of Iowa
Matt Mausser, Speck USA
Kevin Moreland, Varsity Group Marketing
Jamie Morrow, ReMax Real Estate Group
Carrie Norris, Grand Homes & Renovations
Matt Pertzborn, Hy-Vee, Inc.
Jen Schulte, City of Des Moines
Tony Sly, Keller Williams
Ronnette Vondrak, Des Moines University
Dave Weber, Burke Corp.
Kathie Weber


Mark Your Calendar

July 8, 2017 -- LLS Night at Iowa Cubs, Principal Park -- Game Start 7:08 p.m.
August 1, 2017 -- Light The Night Kick-Off Party at Sam & Games, Des Moines -- 5:30 p.m.
Sept. 15, 2017 -- Parrot Head Golf Tournament at Legacy Golf Club, Norwalk --12 noon shotgun start
Oct. 14, 2017 -- Eastern Iowa Light The Night at Kinnick Stadium, Iowa City -- 5:30 p.m. 
Oct. 21, 2017 -- Central Iowa Light The Night at Principal Park, Des Moines -- 5:30 p.m.


 If you are hosting a third party event for LLS, and would like help promoting, please email details or a flyer to keena.roberts@lls.org.


 

LLS National News Updates

LLS Statement on Senate Healthcare Bill and Efforts Related to Cost of Cancer Care

LLS has serious concerns about the Senate’s healthcare bill unveiled Thursday, which would put cancer patients at risk of facing increased barriers to accessing life-saving treatments. LLS responded to this timely news by posting a statement from Dr. Lou on LLS.org, including this quote: “The Senate bill represents a step backward for cancer patients – making it harder for patients to afford the often-costly treatments they need to combat their cancer. LLS urges Senators to oppose this bill.” See our statement here. Further, the Office of Public Policy will be submitting a letter directly to the Senate next week detailing our concerns, and urging a bipartisan solution to address the significant obstacles to accessing affordable care.

These actions are part of our larger effort to advocate for patients and take a stand on issues related to the Cost of Cancer Care. The communications and policy teams have been collaborating on a series of activities related to this issue, including national media outreach to give voice to cancer patients. This outreach resulted in this recent placement in the Huffington Post, featuring a story of twins Kenedi and Kendal Breyfogle’s AML diagnosis, and their mom Abby Breyfogle’s #IAmAPreexistingCondition video, with a link to the LLS Advocacy Facebook Page.


American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting 

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago (June 2 to June 6), brought together an unprecedented 38,000 researchers, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies and advocacy organizations, including representative from LLS, to share the latest data and advances in cancer research and treatment. Read two LLS blogs covering the highlights, which include:

Promising data from precision medicine clinical trials – drugs that treat patients based on genetics instead of where the tumor is in their body. In the study of a drug called larotrectinib, the patients treated had 17 different types of tumors and 76 percent showed response to treatment. Read more on The LLS Blog (1).

Innovations in CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell immunotherapy, which LLS has been funding for two decades. CAR T is an emerging approach that reprograms the patient’s own immune T cells to find and kill cancer cells. Two studies presented on CAR T showed promise for CLL (as a combination therapy) and myeloma patients. Read more on The LLS Blog (2).

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Light The Night

Register Your Team Today!

Register your team for Light The Night! Help us bring light to the darkness of cancer!

LTN Teams

Eastern Iowa: October 14 @ Kinnick Stadium
Des Moines: October 21 @ Principal Park

Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m.; Program begins at 7 p.m.

To register: call our office at 515.270.6169, email keena.roberts@lls.org or go to www.lightthenight.org/ia 


 

Exciting New Event Attraction for 2017

NEW Stage, Lighting and Sound! 

LTN Stage pics

These new professional elements will ensure ALL participants can see and hear everything throughout the event. Our moving new Opening Ceremony will not be missed!


 

Light The Night Kick-Off Party

Tuesday, August 1st 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Sam & Gabe’s at The Lyon, Observation Deck

600 E. 5th Street, Des Moines

All Team Captains & Executive Challengers PAST & PRESENT interested in participating this year are welcome!

For more information about the event, please email Maryann.Amundson@lls.org 


The 2017 Executive Challenge Is On!

Executive Challenge Flyer

Man & Woman of the Year

Central Iowa - Record Breaking Year

Six candidates raised over $534,000! 

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(Pictured L-R: Keira, Girl of the Year; Wendy Daniel-Wiseman; Ronnette Vondrak; Shelly Doty; Trae, Boy of the Year; Tricia Gonyo, Woman of the Year; Mitchell Meyers and J.P. Kramer, Man of the Year)

These six candidates raised an average of $90,000 each in just ten short weeks! We are so incredibly proud of these individuals and extremely grateful! Because of all of them and their unbelievable support, we are closer to making Someday Today!

A big Thank You goes out to all the candidates, their team members, the committee, sponsors, volunteers and donors who helped make this year a success!

To see pictures from this years Grand Finale, click here
To see pictures from the Appreciation Reception, click here


 

Eastern Iowa Grand Finale Pictures

Thank you to our Eastern Iowa Man & Woman of the Year Candidates who raised over $150,000!

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(Pictured L-R: Chad Johnson, Rosi Disterhoft (All-Star of the Year), Brooke Fitzgerald (Woman of the Year), Ashleigh Mack and Blaine Thomas (Man of the Year))

Thank you to the candidates, their teams, the committee, sponsors and all the donors that helped LLS push closer to finding a Cure for cancer!

To view photos from the Grand Finale, please click here and use this password: 69R39u1bZ1

 

Student Series

Thank You Iowa Schools

Way to go Iowa Schools!  
Thanks to your hard work, we hit our goal and raised over $241,000! 

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(Pictured above: Students, teachers and administrators from across Iowa schools)


 

Our Top 10 Schools

Harlan
(Pictured above: Harlan High School)

Top 10 Iowa Schools:

Harlan Community High School--$17,261.77
Maple Grove Elementary (Waukee)--$12,325.58
Northeast Elementary (Goose Lake)--$8,121.82
Waukee High School--$7,200.00
Southeast Polk Jr. High--$6,204.84
Lawson Elementary (Johnston)--$5,875.49
Clarke Elementary (Osceola)--$5,324.08
Perkins Elementary (Des Moines)--$5,000.00
Clinton Middle School--$5,000.00
Eagle Grove Elementary--$4,697.42


Outreach Assistant Position Available

Looking to be a part of a team? Want to help an organization in the fight against cancer!?! LLS Student Series has three part-time, temporary positions available for the 2017-18 school year. For more details, please click here or email jordan.allen@lls.org 


Team In Training

GO TEAM! We hit our goal!

TNT Group
Pictured above: Iowa TNT teammates in Nashville for the half marathon, in Yosemite National Park for the Hike and In New York for the Gran Fondo Bike Ride)

GO TEAM! With Fiscal Year 2017 coming to a close at the end of June, I am happy to report we hit our budget number in Iowa! I can’t thank all of you enough for all your hard work training and fundraising over the past 12 months! We had 115 teammates participating in events from Las Vegas to Nashville to Yosemite and Disney World. Those 115 teammates raised over $310,000 to fund the mission; finding a cure for blood cancers. Thank you to everyone who made this year a success for Team In Training!


 

Iowa's Top Fundraisers

We also had some national top fundraisers at events this year. Congratulations to Marcie Morrison who raised over $41,000 for Nashville Rock N Roll. Along with Marcie, Sue Olson and Richelle Lowery both raised over $9200 for Nashville. And, not to go unnoticed, Keith Henaman ran the Las Vegas marathon and had donations totaling $8600 and then ran the Nashville Rock N Roll and raised an additional $6600! All our Team In Training teammates are ROCK STARS and work so hard to make Someday Today!


 

Become a Team Captain

Become a Team Captain and make a bigger impact. Pick an event for fall and ask your friends, family and co-workers to join you! The more, the merrier!

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Check Out Our Upcoming Events

Team Iowa is going to Savannah for the Rock N Roll marathon on November 4th . If running isn’t your thing right now, why not join Team Iowa at the El Tour de Tucson cycle ride on November 18th . We also have Iowa teammates going to the Chicago Marathon in October, the New York City Marathon in October and the Maine Lighthouse ride in September! And, planning ahead, we have a handful heading to Florida in January for the Walt Disney World Marathon where there will be an extra special event taking place in honor of Team In Training’s 30th anniversary!

To register for a Team In Training event, please go to www.teamintraining.org and use the registration code IATNTALUM for free registration.


 

Join Us at the Iowa Cubs

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LLS night at the Iowa Cubs game! Come support Sonya Heitshusen in her quest to raise $100,000 for Team In Training! Sonya accepted the challenge to compete in the Kona Ironman World Championships in October, and has committed to raising money and training for this rigorous race, all at the same time. We have tickets for the game on July 8th for sale at the LLS office. They are $8.00/each (with a portion of proceeds benefitting LLS). We also have $100 raffle tickets for sale for a chance to win 4 tickets to a Chicago Cubs game of your choice (some restrictions apply). Call 515-270-6169 for game tickets and raffle tickets Today!


 

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