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Personal tragedy has prompted an area woman to become a proponent for brain cancer awareness. By Joseph Myers r e v i e w s ta f f w r i t e r
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any advance the idea that one person’s loss is another’s gain. Elizabeth Cairo is working to prove that someone’s setback can simultaneously and paradoxically breed his or her own gain. Since losing her sister, Lauren Fitzgerald, to brain cancer five years ago Sunday, Cairo, 32, has championed research efforts to lessen the prevalence of the frequently overlooked disease. Her involvement includes time as a committee member for the Race for Hope at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and as an overseer of Fitzy’s See CAIRO page 12
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Jenielle Cook. right, shows children on the 1600 block of Newkirk Street how to use a digital camera as a part of her and her sisters’ nonprofit, Positive Minds.
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Changing the view
Three sisters from Virginia hope to influence local youths by providing multimedia opportunities on a Grays Ferry block.
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Two area basketball products are training with their collegiate brethren and top professionals in Las Vegas. By Joseph Myers................Page 42
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eannine and Jenielle Cook received thumbs up all around after their organization’s debut class. “It was fun. We got to play,” 8-year-old Amanda Clesey said. “We could take pictures of anything,” added her 11-year-old brother Shane.
The siblings from the 1600 block of Newkirk Street along with three other children took part in Positive Minds, a nonprofit supported by New Beginnings Nonprofit Incubator at Resources for Human Development, Inc., and run by a trio of sisters to offer area children the opportunity to work together and showcase their community via mediums such as photography, audio and video.
“Students tend to direct the program,” Jeannine said. “After brainstorming and finding out what they want to do, that’s where we’ll take it.” Jeannine moved to Philly in 2001 to attend college and Positive Minds came into existence the following year. “Positive Minds started as like a college See POSITIVE MINDS page 9