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Friday, May 8, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 19
“An Evening With Joan Lunden� Benefit Tickets Available YORK – The Pink Pals Ellen Baldwin, Cathy Barnhorst, Barbara Conda and Leslie Ware are, once again, planning an amazing evening, this year with Joan Lunden as their guest of honor and keynote speaker, Thursday July 16, 2015, 5 p.m. at Portsmouth Harbor Events to benefit the Breast Cancer Living Well Fund at York Hospital. Tickets will be available May 15. Today, Joan Lunden is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, health and wellness advocate, motivational speaker, successful entrepreneur,
and mother of seven children, and perhaps most widely known as Good Morning America’s cohost for nearly two decades. In June of 2014 Lunden was diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Since then she has made it her mission to educate and inspire others about breast cancer protection, treatment, and survival as an advocate for Living Well and Positive Thinking. As part of her new mission Joan has shared her battle and the transformative effect it has had on her life in her new book “Had I Known� in hopes of teaching others what she has learned.
The evening will be a tribute to living well to benefit the Breast Cancer Living Well Fund at York Hospital, and the programs it provides to help soften the journey of so many in our community faced with breast cancer. The programs include, Financial Assistance, Genetic Testing, Education, Comfort, Protection & Self Esteem, Relaxation & Stress Reduction, Support Groups, Health & Wellness, Strength & Flexibility, Creativity & Self Expression and "Pamper You" Spa Days! An Evening with Joan Lunden, "A Tribute To Living Well" will be an inspiring evening
with guest and keynote speaker Joan Lunden, Host Randy Price, Small Plate dinner, Signature Drinks, Live Auction, Raffles, Runway Fashions and, of course, a few surprises! Tickets for “An Evening With Joan Lunden� will be available for purchase on May 15, online at yorkhospital.com/ joanlunden or by calling 207351-2385. Individual tickets may be purchased at $100 per person, $1,000 per table of ten, or $1,250 per premiere table of ten. For more information, call 207-3512385, email info@yorkhospital. com, or visit yorkhospital.com.
A Rare Appearance by Legendary Maine Author Activist KITTERY – Legendary Maine author and activist Carolyn Chute is making a rare Seacoast appearance on Tuesday, May 12, in Kittery. Chute is scheduled to speak at 6 p.m. at Traip Academy, the local high school, in an event hosted by Kittery’s celebrated Rice Public Library. She has earned universal ac-
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claim for such novels as “Letourneau’s Used Auto Parts,� “Merry Men,� and her most famous classic, “The Beans of Egypt, Maine.� Her most recent novel, “Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves,� was published by Grove Press in November and prompted the New York Times to declare: “Carolyn Chute is a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society, an original in every meaning of the word.� Dropping out of school at 16, Chute plucked chick-
ens, toiled on a potato farm and drove a school bus before achieving celebrity status with
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line: They’re not fooled.� Chute has received both Guggenheim and Thorton Wilder fellowships. She lives in a thickly wooded area of Parsonsfield, Maine, with her husband Michael and their crew of Scottish terriers, in a home that is famously void of telephone, computer, fax machine and hot water. Traip Academy is located at 12 Williams Avenue in Kittery. Please visit Rice Public Library or call at 207-439-1553 to sign up for the event, or register online at www.rice.lib.me.us.
Go Red This Mother’s Day: Maine Mother Survives Heart Surgeries, Helps Educate Others MAINE – Nicole Hardy, a 45-yearold single, working mom never expected to add “heart disease survivor� to her title. Less than two years ago, she found herself having open-heart surgery not once, but twice, and all within three weeks. Her father died very suddenly of a massive heart attack when he was 28. Her mom was now left alone with Nicole, a one-year-old baby. Due to this family history, she had an echocardiogram (echo) during
her first pregnancy that showed a slight narrowing of her aorta but nothing to worry about. She had her second daughter and lived an active life. She exercised regularly, ate well, and felt fine. However, she does remember that when she exercised, her jaw would begin to ache. A few years ago, she got divorced and went back to working full-time causing her stress level to increase. She felt
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the 1985 publication of Beans, her first novel. Chute emerged as a voice of America’s underprivileged and at one point headed an organization known as the 2nd Maine Militia. “The plot, the prose and the political pronouncements are as over-the-top as they often are in Chute’s work,� the Kirkus Review stated in its review of Wolves, “which by no means negates the value of her career-long mission to show the elite what people at the bottom of the heap think of the American dream. Bottom
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