JDRF Metro Saint Louis / Greater MO Chapter

Show us how insulin pump therapy helps you manage your diabetes, and you could win $1,000 and a trip to Disneyland. http://www.minimed.com/lenny-contest/contest.html

Here are the forms and information about the upcoming Family Retreat and Adult Symposiums. Availability is first-come, first-served. Spots will fill, so please act fast if interested. Thank you.

Family Retreat 2010 (2.3MB file)
Adult Symposium 2010 (less than 1MB file)

The 12^th Annual JDRF Golf Tournament Monday June 14, 2010.

The JDRF invites you and your team to register a foursome today!
The tournament will be held at the totally redesigned Algonquin Golf Club.  Be the first to play on this new course and enjoy a great day of golf!

9:30 Free golf clinic and swing analysis
11:00 Shotgun start/ Lunch/ Lots of prizes on course
4:00 Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and Silent Auction
5:00 Prizes and Awards

For more information please contact Sue Batterson at 314-729-1846 x12

For our “Wall of Hope” at the JDRF office – You Motivate Us Every Day!

We’ve been in our new offices for almost a year now, and the walls need some personality!  We’re creating a Wall of Hope in our new Family Training and Conference Room, generously sponsored by Enterprise Leasing.Send in any photo of your child/spouse/loved one who has type 1, to be a daily inspiration for our staff and volunteers.

Playing football – trick or treating – testing blood sugar—smiling for the camera—holding a new baby – riding a bike – singing – swimming – playing soccer – with a new puppy – Christmas morning – Bar mitzvah – first day of school – eating a snack — whatever they are doing, we want to see them!

Any size photo from 3 x 5” to 8 x 10” ; photos can not be returned.  Please include, on back, person’s name, age, and age at diagnosis. Send photos to the office, JDRF, 50 Crestwood Executive Center, Suite 401, St. Louis, MO  63126, or bring them to the retreat and hand them in at registration.  Questions? Please email metrostlouisvol1@jdrf.org.

This game is always sold out and very popular with the fans so get your seats early! If you have a walk team you can receive credit towards your 2010 team goal for each dollar donated to the JDRF by the Blues for each ticket you sell. So get out there and sell some tickets for your team! When you order your tickets be sure to tell Nick at the Blues the name of your walk team to get credit for your ticket sales.

Blue vs. Blackhawks tix order form for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

*Our own, Marie Davis, will be one of the speakers.  $35 per person, contact info@missouricures.com for more information.

at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, January 12-24, 2010
Tickets are just $32 each! (regularly $54)

A portion of these ticket sales benefits the St Louis chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ($5 per ticket sold via the JDRF code)

Offer valid for the following performances only:
Sunday, January 17, 7:30pm & Thursday, January 21, 1pm matinee

Click on the following link & enter promotion code:  JDRF
http://ev6.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/evenue/ev69/se/DisplayPromoList.d2w/report?linkID=metro&RSRC=&RDAT=&caller=PR

Offer valid for Orchestra Rear & Side seating only.  Can not be combined with any other offer.  No refunds or exchanges.

Expires 1/21/10 or when all tickets in the above price range have been sold to these performances.

Its a fabulous collection of Holiday songs performed in ways you’ve never heard them before. Many of your favorite artists including Mike Love of The Beach Boys, Weezer, Collective Soul, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Jon Anderson of Yes, David Coverdale and over 140 other artists from around the world collaborated on this project to help spread awareness and support for Type 1 diabetes.  The album will be available in stores everywhere this holiday season. All proceeds will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in their efforts to find a cure.

The album will be available directly through our website in the near future. In the meantime, it is available as a digital download from iTunes, Digistation, CD Baby, and the CD can purchased on Amazon.  For more information, go to: http://www.holidayhope.net

(a unique opportunity for you to support diabetes research tomorrow AND today)

How the Legacy Challenge works: When you make a promise to support JDRF tomorrow by including JDRF in your estate plans – a Legacy Challenge sponsor will make a $1000 cash donation in your honor to fund current research toward a cure.

A limited-time opportunity: We want you to become part of JDRF Legacy Challenge.  But don’t delay. To be eligible for the $1000 cash donation in your honor, you must make an estate plan commitment before May 2010.  AND send us a statement that JDRF has been included in your estate plans whether it is for a few outright dollars, a percentage of your total estate or…it qualifies.

If you have already included JDRF in your plans but have not yet told us, your gift also qualifies for the Legacy Challenge.  This is a national program and our chapter could be the one that receives the most immediate cash from the Challenge!  Let’s go for it. For questions, contact Marie Davis at mdavis@jdrf.org.