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Teresa Luterbach Shop for the Cure.... it's a long term commitment for 5 weeks a year!

The Shop for the Cure has been closed up and packed up. It was another successful 5 weeks of sales, building awareness, making new friends, seeing old friends, giving support, getting support..... I get a little sad when we close it all down, knowing that there are some people I won't see for another year.

There are about 50 volunteers who make the "Shop" a success. Of those 50 volunteers, 50% are survivors. The rest of us have someone in our lives who is a survivor.

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Added by Teresa Luterbach on May 18, 2010 at 9:13pm — 1 Comment

Suzi Magill Walking and Talking for a Good Cause


On Mother's Day Kaitlyn and I took part in the… Continue

Added by Suzi Magill on May 14, 2010 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Teresa Luterbach In Memory of...

This Sunday, when we were working at the Shop for the Cure, we were discussing the friends and mutual steering committee members we had lost to this terrible disease.

We talked about Daryl Silver - I think of her whenever my peonies bloom. Her daughter had them at her wedding, and she always talked about the beauty of that flower.

We talked about Jan Zimmerman, who was the impetus of the Shop. I remember when we even had a "Wrap" for the cure over the holidays. J

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Added by Teresa Luterbach on May 12, 2010 at 8:54pm — 2 Comments

Rhonda Zweber What a Fantastic Mother's Day!

Since being diagnosed, I have had a team party the day before the walk to thank my team for walking and to hand out the shirts and bibs. For the first two years, my team name was Rhonda's Rack. I loved that name and thought of it shortly after finding out that I was going to have a team for the walk. The joke for the first Big Bash, was the deer antlers I found at a garage sale that I painted pink! Last year, everyone had to put a hot pink boa around their neck before they had their photo taken… Continue

Added by Rhonda Zweber on May 12, 2010 at 4:03pm — No Comments

Heather "If every cancer is as evil as the one that took my mom I will fight them all!"

"If every cancer is as evil as the one that took my mom I will fight them all!" I said to my fiance as he asked me, "Are you sure you want to do this?" with Mother's Day being just 3 short months after having my daughter and losing my mom all within a day of them meeting each other. "Yes, I want to start a team" I said. And so Renee's Renegades was formed as a way to remember, heal and hope for a cure. I spread the word and my small family group turned into 32 w

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Added by Heather on May 10, 2010 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Liz Parker Why I walk

My mom, Margot Parker, was diagonsed with Stage 4 breast cancer in 1999. She survived with vigor until September 1, 2008. The last words I spoke to my mother as she lay in wait to go to her final destination were, " Mom, we've been on lots of trips together. This one has not been the best one, but I am glad I could do it with you. But now it's time to go home."
I never want another person to have to say something like that to their mother, sister, aunt, grandma or daughter. That's is why I h… Continue

Added by Liz Parker on May 10, 2010 at 11:23am — No Comments

Arik Thank you Susan G. Komen for making a difference

I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in Aug. 2006 after the initial shock. I went ahead and had a lumpectomy followed by chemo and radiation. In 2007 I wanted to walk in the Race for the Cure, but I wasn't feeling up to it so I decided to volunteer the morning of the race, and experience the survivor ceremony. I was so blown away by the whole experience that when I left that day I made a vow to myself that I would make a difference.


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Added by Arik on May 6, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Arik Making someone's day

I had the most amazing day yesterday here in my wig studio and I'd love to share it with you!

One of the services I provide is a gifting program. I offer to accept and coordinate donations on behalf of the person needing a wig. I received a phone call about 2 hours before my customer was scheduled to pick up and pay for the wig she had selected. A woman called and said "I'd like to make someone's day". She proceded to tell me she wanted to anonomously pay for her friend's wig. We calcu… Continue

Added by Arik on May 6, 2010 at 10:59am — No Comments

Arik Mayo Clinic's Molly Sweeney shares her emotional story

Molly Sweeney, who works in the department of development at Mayo Clinic, shares her emotionally-charged story about why she gives her time and support to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure-Minnesota Affiliate.


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Added by Arik on May 4, 2010 at 10:27am — No Comments

Arik Race for the Cure dollars support research at Mayo Clinic

In this short four-minute video, Sadhna Kohli, Ph.D. and researcher at Mayo Clinic, talks about recent research that centers on helping patients with breast cancer better manage one of the most difficult parts of the process: chemotherapy.



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Added by Arik on May 4, 2010 at 10:07am — No Comments

Teresa Luterbach Why do I volunteer? Let me count the ways.....

I was working at the Shop for the Cure yesterday. A young man walked up to the kiosk, and I smiled at him, said hello. He said, "I buried my wife today. She fought hard. She was 28." Then, his young daughter walked up with her grandmother, and told me, "My mommy died." Her grandmother pointed out her young grandson, who had also just lost his mother. It was all I could do not to sob. I did cry, and could hardly get a word out. It makes me so angry that children are losing their mothers to thi

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Added by Teresa Luterbach on May 4, 2010 at 8:32am — No Comments

Nancy Kahnke I walk for my sister Marsha, and for myself


My sister Marsha was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992. She passed away in 1999. My other four sisters and I took care of her at home the last month of her life, so she could be at home, surrounded by everything familiar. She was my best friend. I was 32 years old when she was first diagnosed, so I went in and had my first mammogram. Every year since then, I have had a mammogram. In Sept. 2009, I was due to have my next mammogram. I was very stressed, as w

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Added by Nancy Kahnke on May 3, 2010 at 7:44pm — No Comments

Teresa Luterbach Why "Shop for the Cure"?

The question is asked, "Why do you volunteer?" Initially, I had two reasons for volunteering at the Shop, but over the years, those reasons have multiplied. I have met so many wonderful women who have been touched by breast cancer. Unfortunately, I've lost a few, but I've also seen many women beat the odds. I hope to highlight stories about each of them as this blog develops.

The first reason I got involved was my college roommate, Sue Pearson. She was diagnosed at 29, with no

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Added by Teresa Luterbach on May 1, 2010 at 7:52am — No Comments

Rhonda Zweber I want to pay it forward

From the day I was diagnosed (it will be three years on May 18th!), my husband, Val and I knew we wanted to be up front with our daughters, Ashley who was about to turn 13 at the end of May; Hailey who was almost 11; and Sally who would turn five in exactly one month. We had the opportunity to do just that as soon as we told the girls when the got home from school. Ashley asked, "Does that mean I will get it?" I didn't even hesitate to tell her that the chances of finding a cure, before she woul… Continue

Added by Rhonda Zweber on April 27, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Arik It's Still Me

As a breast cancer survivor and owner of "It's Still Me" Wig Studio in St Louis Park, I look forward to celebrating with fellow survivors at Race for the Cure. It's an amazing event!

After a 27-year career ended in downsizing, and a breast cancer diagnosis at the same time, I was presented with the opportunity to re-invent
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Added by Arik on April 26, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments

DONNA MCCULLEN Passion, Decision and Determination

It is that time again! "The walk". My goodness, just a month more and I will celebrate my 76th birthday, just 6 weeks after celebrating our 54th wedding anniversary. Little did my family realize I would be here to celebrate these mile stones. But myself and others like me have been blessed with the doctors that strive to save us, and the drugs that cancer research provides us.

I have a passion for life. And I have a passion for a cure for cancer. My former oncologist and his wife have

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Added by DONNA MCCULLEN on April 20, 2010 at 9:20am — No Comments

Wendy Jacobson Annual Rite of Spring

I always knew Spring was right around the corner by her actions. It wasn't the rising temps or the melting snow. It was my Mom's enthusiasm as she geared up for another year of volunteering at the Race for the Cure. It started in February and lasted all the way through Race Day. The Race - and the people behind it - provided my Mom an outlet when she most needed it.

My Mom, Jan Zimmerman, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and the prognosis was not good. In fact, when it w… Continue

Added by Wendy Jacobson on April 19, 2010 at 9:46pm — 2 Comments

Teresa Luterbach The Susan G. Komen Shop for the Cure, Inspired by Jan Zimmerman

I have been noodling over how and where to start this blog for weeks. I think it was 13 years ago, when I was wandering through Southdale Mall, that I came upon the shop. My mother had been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and I stopped in for a little support and for some of the great mercha

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Added by Teresa Luterbach on April 19, 2010 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Rhonda Zweber What a difference a week makes

For years, my friend Lisa, and I wanted to walk on Mother's Day, and finally, in 2006, we walked and decided we were going to do this each year. On Mother's day in 2007, Lisa and her mom, Julie, joined my two older daughters, Ashley and Hailey and I to walk together. Julie was a 12 year breast cancer survivor and as I was putting on her pink ribbons on her hat for each year of being a survivor, I told her that I had been keeping an eye on a lump in my breast that I had found about a month prior… Continue

Added by Rhonda Zweber on April 12, 2010 at 2:10pm — 1 Comment

Suzi Magill I am walking for a 6 year old


I, like many of you, am walking this year in the Susan G. Komen Twin Cities Race for the Cure 5k walk. This year, however, my 6 year old
daughter, Kaitlyn, is walking with me. I am walking because of her.
I am walking to hopefully save her life one day. She's a completely
healthy, happy, and lively 6 year old girl. My hope is that she grows up
to be a completely healthy, happy, lively 66 year old woman. By taking a
morning in May to help raise money and pro… Continue

Added by Suzi Magill on April 8, 2010 at 8:31am — No Comments

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