Thanks to all of you who were "virtual" guests at our CCSVI Alliance Fundraiser yesterday! We appreciate all of the donations and well
wishes. Pictures and videos will follow....today is clean up :)

Jeff and I welcomed 120 guests into our home; we ate and drank delicious
Italian food, wine, and sparkling sodas. Jeff and I performed an

Italian baroque duet--all in honor of Dr. Zamboni and his Italian team

of researchers. My girlfriends did gorgeous floral arrangements,

including many golden leaves, referring to the CCSVI Alliance leaf. The

wine glass charms were leaves. There was live jazz, wonderful

conversation and a 20 minute keynote presentation on CCSVI Alliance.

A friend of ours who has been treated in Poland and needed retreatment

was present to discuss the importance of good follow-up care and staying

local. We had a question and answer session that went on for a half

hour.

The room was excited and energized and many came up to us afterward with ideas for fundraising, public relations,
documentary films, connections in the medical field and how to spread

the word. There were invitations from friends to come into their homes

and do the presentation for their community.

We believe it will be this type of personal connection that will continue to create
the grass roots movement in CCSVI research. If you are interested in

hosting a similar type of function in your home, please contact us at

joan.beal@ccsvi.org for party ideas. CCSVI Alliance will provide

printed material, including brochures and donation cards. But it will

be your own creativity, personal story and outreach into your community

that will generate the "buzz" and help us in opening veins and minds-

Thanks again for all of the support--

Jeff and Joan Beal

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