Upcoming activities for the CML Society of Canada

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Hello Everyone,

Just back from a lovely vacation on Martha's Vineyard. I think long walks

on sunny beaches is much better than any drug!

Even though it is summer and we have been swamped with a multitude of

things, the CML Society has been working hard to firmly establish ourselves

here in Canada.

We are excited to announce a couple of upcoming activities. Hope you are

able to join us for some or all of these exciting events.

September 22, 2006 - Light the Night in Montreal - Presented by the Leukemia

and Lymphoma Society and Bristol Myers Squibb. The CML Society will have a

tent set up donated to us by the LLS (a value of usually $10,000 worth of

sponsorship money). The purpose of the tent is to help raise awareness of

the CML Society as well as CML in general. We do recognize that this date

falls on Rosh Hashanah. We did not pick this date, and for those of you who

know me well, know that it is troubling to me that this event is happening

on a very special day for our Jewish friends. I spoke with Robin Markowitz

at the LLS and she has prepared a letter which I will send in a separate

e-mail regarding the holding of this event on this very special day. The

following day is a Saturday and we will be holding a special meeting of the

CML Society, we had to pick this date to correspond with the Light the Night

Event to take advantage of the people who will be traveling to Montreal at

that time.

Saturday September 23, 2006 - Special fall meeting of the CML Society which

will most likely include patient representatives from every province in

Canada who are interested in helping us to establish the CML Society from

coast to coast. This will be held in Montreal at the Royal

Hospital

Wednesday September 27, 2006 - Montreal, Royal . Special lunch

meeting featuring Dr. Francis Giles from MD , Houston Texas. Dr.

Giles is actually a Canadian, born in Ontario but raised in Dublin Ireland.

His parents were/are Irish. We hope he speaks to us about his recent work

on vaccines.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 - Toronto Ontario, Dr. Francis Giles, as

mentioned above. Meeting at 4:00 PM or early morning meeting on the same

day. For everyone in Ontario, please write back to me and let me know your

preference. Either 4:00 PM or early morning, let's say 8:00 AM.

Please e-mail me to confirm your presence for these events. It is very

IMPORTANT for you to confirm to me no later than tomorrow evening (August

23rd, 2006) your availability for the Montreal and Toronto meetings

featuring Dr. Francis Giles. We are working with him to firm up his agenda

and need to do so this week. My deadline is late Wednesday evening.

The Meeting in Montreal will be chaired by Cheryl-Anne and Suzan as well as

Dr. Pierre Laneuville. The meeting in Toronto will be chaired by Cheryl

Anne and Dr. Lipton.

French version of this memo will follow later on today.

We are looking forward to an excellent turn out for these events.

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

Sincerely,

Cheryl-Anne Simoneau,

President & CEO

The CML Society of Canada