Lunch for Life/L.O.V.E. Club Cookbook, Vol. 2 - set to debut in Sept. 2008

This year we will be compiling another cookbook to raise money for CNCF (Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation) for much needed research and family support (check out their new handbook for families on nbhope.org). The Lunch for Life Cookbook was a joint effort between The L.O.V.E. Club families and Lunch for Life. That is why we need you to help us make it a great success like last year's cookbook. Almost 3,000 cookbooks were sold at $20 each (for us non-math wizards that is $60,000). This year we will have a recipe form that can be downloaded and filled out for each recipe to make editing and printing that much easier and organized. To access that form please click on the following
link:http://www.nbhope.org/files/folders/lunch_for_life/entry52136.aspx

The sections will remain the same: Appetizers; Salads & Dressings;Soups & Sandwiches; Entrees; Side Dishes; Desserts; Kid-Friendly Foods. I am not sure that we will be able to include Celebrity Recipes unless someone is willing to be the contact person and has these relationships established. It would be nice if we could have maybe a different genre of celebrities or recipes from privately owned restaurants. If anyone has ideas please share them with me.There have been six or seven newly diagnosed children at Cooks since we printed the last cookbook so my idea was to do the story cards on them but then to have a short update on each one of our children with new pictures. For the children who are angels I thought that it would be great to include a page for each of the events that have taken place in their memory this year (ie. Michael Mancuso - 1st Annual Neuroblastoma Walk-A-Thon; Elesha Debenport - Lemonade Stand; Caleb Larson - Rodeo Event at Young Area). This is a wonderful way to show how their legacies live on. Also to include pictures of them on that page and maybe pictures from the events too. We will also include a precious poem that was suggested by Cathy Mancuso to honor the angels. I would like to include an entire information page on neuroblastoma, an information page on CNCF and then important websites for more information on neuroblastoma (the key one being CNCF and Lunch for Life).We will take recipes until August 21, 2008 and then I will need about two weeks to edit before sending them to the printer. This will put the release date sometime in the second or third week of September to honor Children's Cancer Awareness Month. It would be awesome if we had media, media and more media aware of the cookbook. I am even shooting for something to be available at the Geno Loro event so they can pre-order the cookbooks.Please post this on your websites so we can make this another great cookbook, even better than last year's.

Neuroblastoma Handbook

The new Neuroblastoma Handbook is now officially available online. Check it out and spread the word so we can get this to families, hospitals and support groups.

Cowboyin for the Cure

Please click on the picture for a larger view of the flyer. We would love your support at this event!

July Meeting Notes

Hello All,

I have a new computer and lost some of the e-mails I had such as Crys and Missy. If you notice I've missed a name, please let me know so that I can forward it on to everyone who is interested.

Lesley Atkinson and Whitney Langdon were there to report on the progress of the NB program. They both work with the foundation. Whitney helps with 3rd party fund raisers and Lesley works with large corporations. Lesley said that the program will consist of clinical research, a consortium with other institutions that engage in lab research thus Cooks patients to have more treatment options, a parents group and educational support. They expect to have a firm design and timeline in the next 60 to 90 days. They've currently hired 3 research interns and they will be doing 1 study on NB.

The Stucker family (Elizabeth's family) is helping to arrange a wine auction. We will have more info on that later.

The Sankry family would be grateful for the LOVE club to help with the walk they have next year.

This is all Lesley could tell us at present. Hopefully they will be more informed at our next meeting.

Mark said that the CNCF Parent Handbook is now available on line. It is a wealth of information for parents of children with NB. Check it out at http://www.nbhope.org/ look under "Resources".

We talked about moving our meeting times to the evenings so that more people can attend the meetings. I would appreciate your feedback on that question.

Brandi has some posters for the Rodeo. Remember to attend at 10am. If you've sold any raffle tickets, please bring them that day to Brandi so they will be entered in the drawing.

Heather also shared a sheet regarding A New Year of Hope Foundation. They have several committees with openings in the following areas: Events Committee, PR, Fundraising, Volunteer Recruitment

All committees will have one chairperson and will be asked to vilunteer for one-yr. terms. volunteers can stay on any particular committee for more than one term but are only allowed two consecutive hairperson terms every two years. For more information, please e-mail Heather at heather@anewyearofhope.org

Thanks,
Karen

Recipe Form

Please use the following form to submit recipes for Volume II of the Lunch for Life Cookbook. This year our cookbooks will be available in the beginning of September to commemorate the month as National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. We will be accepting recipes until August 1, 2008. You can copy and paste this form into Microsoft Word and then send it to the email below. Also, please attach a picture of your neuroblastoma warrior to the recipes that you are submitting so we are able to publish it in the cookbook alongside of each recipe.

Blessings,

The L.O.V.E. Club Families

Lunch for Life/The L.O.V.E. Club
Online REcIpe FORM
mailto:nbloveclub@gmail.com

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Today’s Date: 5/12/2008

Recipe INFORMATION
Recipe Submitted by:

In Honor/Memory of:
Age of Child at Diagnosis:
Please choose a category that best describes child’s situation: Angel, In treatment, In Remission, Relapsed
City & State where Child Lives:




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July LOVE Lunch

We will have a LOVE Club lunch on Monday. We will meet at Mimi's Cafe on Bryant Irvin at 1:00. Please let me know if you will be able to join us so that I can have them get a big enough table for us. Whitney Langdon and Leslie Atkinson will join us for the meeting to give us more information about the NB Center at Cook. If you have not sent photos to Shannon Ford yet, please bring a disc with those on it so that we can get the pictures to her.

Thanks,
Karen

Root Beer Float and Lemonade Stand Coming Up!!!

Lauren Olivia Victoriana Elesha
2nd Annual LOVE Club Event
June 21, 2008
10am – 2pm
At the Home Depot
9509 White Settlement RdFort Worth, TX 76108
Helping children and their families affected by a childhood cancer called Neuroblastoma
Fun Activities for children Bake Sale
Lemonade Face Painting
Root beer Floats
Cake Walk Handicrafts
Ft. Worth Police Free Kids’ ID Fire Trucks Police Cars

June Meeting Notes

Thank you to all who came to the meeting on Monday. For those who are unaware, Monday was "Bubba Day". Now if our city recognizes Bubba Day (My mom heard them mention it on the radio) why shouldn't they concede to having a World NB Day? If you are willing to write to the City Counsel asking them to declare September 27th World Neuroblastoma Day just contact Mark. He is hoping to get 25 cities to agree to it. If you are interested in this endeavor, Mark would be ecstatic!

We talked about different venues for the activities on the 27th. Raelene has looked at Southwestern Seminary and Mark is going to check at TCU. Another idea would be the Lockheed Martin Recreation facility. We would like to make it a bit of a field day/carnival. We would like to have cake walks and other carnival type games. Mark, I have a friend whose brother has a Ferris Wheel. She's going to ask if he would volunteer to use and operate it for the day.

I also wanted to let everyone know that we will have another Rootbeer float, Lemonade stand, and bakesale in Ft. Worth on 6/21 from 10am to 2pm. We need help getting sponsors to provide the lemonade, rootbeer, and baked goods. We will also need help running different stations. Ft. Worth police will be out to ID children. We'll also have a firetruck, ambulance, and maybe even a helicopter for children to tour. We would like to have some face painting, so if you have the skills for that, please let me know. If you have any other ideas, give me a call.

Try to make it to our next meeting as Leslie Atkins will be there to discuss the plans for the NB Research Clinic.

Our next meeting will be July 7 at 1pm at Mimi's Cafe. Please let me know if you're planning on coming.

JR is doing well in transplant. His actual transplant day is Friday, June 6.

Thanks for all you're doing to make a difference in the lives of children and their families.

Our Purple Cow Fundraiser is fast approaching! Remember to come to one of the three Dallas/Ft. Worth area Purple Cows on Tuesday, May 27th from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Purple Cow will donate 15% of all their profits that day to CNCF. We will also have T-shirts for sale there for $15. Tell them you are there for Lunch for Life and register to win an I-Pod and other door prizes.

May LOVE Lunch

We will have our monthly meeting on Monday, May 5 at 1pm at Chicken Ranch in Ft. Worth.

Just cut and paste the following link in your URL.

301 W Exchange AveFort Worth, TX 76106
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