A Night of A Thousand Stars will shine on Saturday, November 5, 2011

Join us for our annual benefit which will be held for the third year at the beautiful Steinway Piano Gallery of Detroit,   2700 E. West Maple Rd., Commerce MI 48390 (M-5 and W. Maple). 

You will be treated to a fabulous evening of great entertainment (including The Cliff Monear Trio and songster Mark Randazzi, and classical pianist and cellist, Drs. Anne Chen and Nicholas Tobin), a silent auction, and scrumptious appetizers and desserts. Admission fee is $60 per person, with proceeds benefitting the Michigan Parkinson Foundation. 
For further information, call the MPF office at 248-433-1011 or click here for invitation

Tri-City/Saginaw Parkinson Support Groups moves to new location

The Tri-City/Saginaw Parkinson Support Group is meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 2 pm at a new location:

Wescourt Independent Living Community
4141 McCarty Rd.,  Saginaw  MI 48603

The facilitator of the group is now Sue Smith, who can be reached at (989)797-3600.
We wish to thank Saginaw Commission on Aging for hosting the Support Group for so many years.

Kalamazoo Area Parkinson Support Group: New place, new time, renewed!

We are pleased that Bronson Neurosciences has joined with the Michigan Parkinson Foundation to provide new leadership and space for the Kalamazoo Area Parkinson Support Group – founded in 1984, one of the first groups to be organized in Michigan.

The support group will change meeting times and locations to:

2nd Tuesday of each month at 3:30 pm  (first meeting on November 8)
Bronson Lifestyle Improvement and Research Center (BAC)
6789 Elm Valley Drive, Kalamazoo 49009

For further information, contact:
Tiffany Hansard or Stephanie Wagner (269) 341-7069 or
the Michigan Parkinson Foundation (800) 852-9781

Opening speakers will be:

• Karen Freshwater, PA-C, Facilitator
• Susan Wertkin, MA/CCC/SLP – Speech
• Alissa Aldrich, DPT, ATC – Physical Therapy
• Lisa Buddemeier, OTR/L – Occupational Therapy

Use Facebook to Spread the New's About Parkinson's

Tips provided by Board Member, Anne Hansen

To find the Michigan Parkinson Foundation of Facebook, simply type “Michigan Parkinson Foundation”  into the search bar.  The MPF fan page should be the first result.  There is a link to the right that says “Become a Fan.”  Just click on that and you’re there!  Or you can click on the MPF logo and become a fan from there.

Michigan Parkinson Foundation’s Facebook page can be used to spread the word to family and friends about the May 22 and May 23 I Gave My Sole to Parkinson’s Walk-a-thon and 5K Runs.  Here are directions:

1. Go to the MPF Facebook fan page through your Facebook account.
2. Click on the link on the upper left of the page “Suggest to Friends.”  It’s right under the MPF logo.
3. Click on which friends you’d like to invite.
4. Click on “Send Invitations.

A message will be sent to your selected friends asking them to become a fan.