Clicking on the first little Rolodex card next to someone's name will give you geographic locations, at least to the extent that people have described them on their profiles. I encourage all of you to see that this information is correct and includes cities. Entries like USA, California, etc. do not help other find you (perhaps you do not with to be found) but there are many instances when OCF has a news interviewer that would like to interview someone in a prticular area and asks us for a refferal.... I can't be of much help to them without this benign information that cannot be used to harm you in any manner. So please update your profiles.

This comes at a time when I am looking for a survivor or ambulatory patient to attend a photo opportunity for the presentation of a $33,000 donation from Heartland Dental on behalf of the foundation. I cannot be there. Over the last two months the 200+ dental practices that belong to Heartland donated $10.00 for evey oral cancer screening they did to OCF and turned it into Heartland. They would like to make a PR presentation of the check to us ASAP, and of course this is a good opportunity for them and the foundation to get the word out again about oral cancer and early detection through publicity surrounding this effort on their part.

They are located in Illinois. Effingham sits at the intersection of 2 major interstates: I-70 (east/west) and I-57 (north/south).

Their offices are 100 miles or so west from St. Louis,
70 miles east of Terre Haute, Ind., (1 hour) and about 2 hours east of Indy.
3 to 3.5 hours south of Chicago
2 hours north of Carbondale in Southern Illinois.
Champaign, Illinois is a little over an hour away
Springfield about 1+ hours away, Bloomington 2 hours

Anyone in this geographic area that would like to volunteer to accept the check, and say a couple of words of thanks, and what this money mean to us ( I will help you with this) we could sure use the help. naational pres release will be done jointly between OCF and Heartland / the person accepting for us will get some center stage time in the story. Please contact me directly.

I apologize for hijacking the topic of the thread but since Minnie's post seemed relavant I jumped in.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.