Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

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Breast Cancer Awareness

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Pink Inside: Pat Davies takes cancer to court. . . . . . . . . . . . 2C Breast cancer can strike men too. . . . . . . . . . . 3C Dragonheart takes four national titles. . . . . . . 4C Studio 7 helps patients feel & look good. . . . . 5C Program launches to help cancer patients. . . 5C Tie one on for a good cause. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6C Food is a powerful therapy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7C Home transformed into a cancer retreat. . . . 10C Delicious cancer-fighting recipes . . . . . . . . . . 14C

Note from the Editors

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ctober is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month and millions of women and men around the country will unite to share stories and raise money to help support research and aid to those affected by breast cancer.

Here at the Addison Independent, we have joined in with

our Power of Pink column each Thursday this past month.

Throughout October we have shared local stories, fundraising efforts, events, and useful resources for those who are struggling with breast cancer or are close to someone who is.

Here we present an entire pink special section dedicated

to breast cancer awareness. Here we hope to “Harvest the Power of Pink,� helping spread awareness and build support for our friends, neighbors and family members fighting the disease.

- the Editors

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MIDDLEBURY RESIDENT PAT Davies has been a USPTA tennis coach and competitive player since the 1960s. Davies credits her fitness and activity for her ability to fight through a history of aggressive breast cancer.

Pat Davies: taking cancer to court

By CHRISTY LYNN MIDDLEBURY — Pat Davies credits her life to tennis.

Davies, currently a Middlebury resident, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 1995 when she was living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She received the call from her gynecologist, who let her know that a recent mammogram indicated that she had what they call ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, in her left breast.

DCIS is the presence of abnormal cells inside the milk ducts of the breast and is considered the earliest phase of breast cancer. It is a noninvasive cancer, meaning it has not spread out of the duct to invade other parts of the breast tissue.

Davies and her doctors elected to perform a full mastectomy, removing her left breast. The surgery was completed three days before Christmas, 1995.

Davies is a life-long athlete. She came to Middlebury College in 1956 largely drawn for the ski team, which at the time was one of the few co-ed sports teams. Her athletic interests shifted back to tennis when she moved to California in 1960 and began training with tennis pro Tom Stowe. Davies had been playing tennis since she was young, and had been ranked number six in New England as a junior. She continued to play through college with professors and other friends, but with no women’s team she hadn’t received the formal coaching she was looking for.

Davies’ skills advanced quickly as she trained and she started competing and coaching herself in the late 1960s.

Since that time she has been competing regionally, nationally and internationally as a senior (30 years old and older) and has achieved several international rankings.

When she was diagnosed with breast cancer she was in excellent physical condition

and credits her fast recovery Farber Cancer Institute in largely to her overall good Boston, but elected to have health. the surgery performed by Dr. “I was lucky at the time, Carl Petri, a local surgeon at with a non-invasive tumor that Porter Medical Center. they were able to remove and The procedure was called send me on my way straight a sentinel lymph node biopsy to recovery,” Davies said. She and was a very new procedure avoided chemotherapy and for Petri and his team at the radiation — that time. time. The goal was to target But then, in July of 1999, the sentinel lymph node, rejust a week after Davies won move it, and identify whether her age bracket at a regional the cancer was spreading to tennis tourother lymph nament in nodes or W i l l i a m - “Overall, I think not through s t o w n , I’m a better a positive/ Mass., she person now. I negative was diagscreening nosed again. think I am more test.

By this compassionate, In Datime she and more undervies’ case, her second there were h u s b a n d , standing, and 27 posiDoug, had more patient.” tive lymph moved back — Pat Davies n o d e s , to Addison w h i c h County. Dameant a far vies was a patient of Dr. Maja more invasive procedure than Zimmerman, a family prac- had been originally expected, tice doctor out of Addison and it necessitated a course Family Medicine, who dis- of chemotherapy followed by covered what felt like a tumor radiation. on Davies’ right breast during “But I was still in excellent a routine visit. condition,” Davies said, “and “They took some pictures throughout the process I tried and nothing showed up,” Da- to maintain my tennis and vies recalled, “but Dr. Zim- keep looking forward to the merman insisted that they next day. I was actually able perform an ultrasound and to play tennis right through low and behold it was right chemotherapy and radiation. there — clear as day.”

My outlook was to stay acDoctors performed a fine tive and fit, so I just focused needle biopsy on the tumor on that.” to find that it was indeed a Davies said that when she malignant and invasive small lost her hair during chemotumor. therapy she wore a ball cap.

“Sure, I was scared,” Da- “I didn’t really care,” she vies said, “everyone is scared, said, “I was still playing well, and unsettled. It’s a blow to so the hair didn’t matter too anyone that is diagnosed with much to me.” cancer.”

Davies was also fortunate But Davies said she main- to be working with Colchestained her focus on her fitness ter-based oncologist Dr. Chris and tennis game, with the Nunnink, who was an athlete mindset that fitness could get himself and encouraged Daher through. vies to stay as fit and active as “Throughout the whole she could. process I kept repeating that “I did have two setbacks if I could play a good game of that caused me to have to tennis today then I’ll be alive be rushed to the hospital, the next.” but generally I stayed pretty Davies sought advice from strong and was able to get cancer experts at the Dana- myself through,” Davies re-

called.

In March of 2000, Pat Davies’ husband was diagnosed with severe liver cancer and told that he had approximately three months to live.

“That was another setback,” Davies said. “We were now both battling a cancer and that was really difficult.”

However, with some lifestyle and diet changes in addition to other alternative measures to combat cancer, Doug Davies lived three years — long enough for them to enjoy several international trips together.

And Pat Davies also had to cope with her own cancer treatment.

“As I got into the bombardment — and it really was a bombardment — of chemo, by being active I was able to focus on something better. It propelled me along,” she said.

Following her exhaustive course of treatment Pat Davies was found cancer free.

“I think many of the doctors like to count me as one of the recoveries,” Davies said. “The truth was I have been very lucky, but it isn’t all about luck. I worked very, very hard on this recovery.”

Davies has gone on to become a volunteer with several cancer organizations including Reach to Recovery and Ride to Recovery, both programs sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

She has walked in the Relay for Life event at Middlebury College, every year, and has taken part in several Susan G Komen Race for the Cure events.

In November of 2002 Davies organized a tennis tournament at Middlebury Indoor Tennis called “Volley to Victory over Cancer.” The tournament raised more than $4,000, which was donated to the Vermont Cancer Network’s emergency funds.

Davies said that in her own road to recovery she was helped along by others who were ahead of her and could advise her along the way. She

was able to build her faith around others’ stories and also advise newly diagnosed patients on how they can also get through.

Other resources, including health and lifestyle guides such as Jane Plant’s “Your Life in Your Hands” and Colin Campbell’s “The China Study,” similarly guided Davies’ way, leading her to adopt a vegetarian diet and dairy-free diet.

“Cancer has changed my life completely,” Davies said, and it hasn’t all been easy.

But with a pervasive interest in staying healthy and fit, it also isn’t that hard.

“Being a breast cancer survivor is like being a part of a club that you don’t really want to be a part of, but it’s filled with very nice people that do need help,” Davies said.

“Overall, I think I’m a better person now. I think I am more

compassionate, more understanding, and more patient.”

And after all that, she stayed a darn good tennis player.

In 2004 Davies played at the international grass court championships and was the runner up in consultation in the women’s 65-plus division.

At the time she was also rated number one in the 65-and-old age bracket in New England and was again rated nationally following a hard court tournament in California that same year. She was also still playing regularly as part of the Middlebury Indoor Tennis club.

Now, at 75, Davies competes less but is still playing tennis despite multiple hip replacements and revision surgeries. “Tennis has always been a driving source of motivation for me, leading me through cancer as well as the rest of my life,” she said.

PAT DAVIES, NOW 75, still plays and coaches tennis as well as maintains an overall active and healthy lifestyle.

“Physical fitness is the key to getting through cancer,” Davies believes.

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The Power of Breast cancer can strike men too: Just ask Yvon Pouliot Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

By EVAN JOHNSON Pouliot wasn’t one for sitting MIDDLEBURY — Yvon around in April 2005 either, Pouliot, facilities and opera- when he found a lump under tions supervisor for the town his right arm. Knowing that of Middlebury, is a busy man his older sister had been diagwith very little time to waste. nosed and treated for breast As indicated by the whiteboard cancer two years earlier, he in his office, his schedule is scheduled a doctor’s appointfilled every day, year-round. ment for the next day.

During the winter months, “I was pretty sure what it he’s on the move clearing was,” he said. sidewalks and walkways of The tumor was determined snow and ice. In the spring he to be malignant. Within a plants the gardens in town, in week, he was set up for a the summer he manages a park surgery at Fletcher Allen in East Middlebury and main- Health Care in Burlington. tains the fountain downtown The American Cancer and the town pool.

Society reports that breast “Fall is the busiest,” he said. cancer is about 100 times less “With sports and so many common among men than other things falling on top of among women. For men, the each other.” lifetime risk of getting breast With so much to be done, cancer is about 1 in 1,000. there is no room for breast Doctors at Fletcher Allen cancer, not conducted while he’s tests to got so much “It was tough. determine if to do. was There was a lot of cancer And yet, hereditary in 2005, anger at having it, in Pouliot’s Pouliot was then a coming to family. The diagnosed results were with breast terms with it.” inconclucancer.

— Yvon Pouliot sive. During T h e his years 58-yearof paintold native Vermonter was ing, he was using lead-based born in Derby and grew up in paints, a factor, he said, that Newport, the son of Canadian may have contributed to his parents and the first of his development. seven siblings to be born in the “It was tough,” he said.

United States. He moved south “There was a lot of anger at to Middlebury in 1975, and he having it, then a coming to said he immediately fell in terms with it.” love with the town. He was 19 Pouliot underwent six and it was his first time on his weeks of radiation treatment own; he enjoyed the excite- every day, followed by five ment. He went to sports games years of additional drug treatand events at the college and ment, which caused some hair frequented the Alibi, a now- and memory loss. closed bar in Frog Hollow.

“I was amazed at the people Pouliot worked at the Ames and the kids I would run Department store and as a into (who were also battling painter until 1996, when the cancer), which really opened town hired him. my eyes to the disease,” he “I love it,” he said, speak- said. “The kids were the ing of his job. “There’s always toughest. I hadn’t seen kids different things to do. I’m not having to go through that. A one for sitting around and lot of the adults were acceptletting time slowly crawl.” ing of it a lot better. It helped

me think more about what my sister had been through.”

Some cancer treatments involve quite aggressive procedures, which can be accompanied by some of the most intense side effects, including anemia, fatigue, hair loss, nausea and more.

While undergoing treatment, Pouliot coached girls’ hockey at Middlebury Union High School. He said the team got him through some of the most difficult periods during his treatment.

“Probably the toughest part was the last year coaching the girls,” he said. “It was the year after I decided to go through with (the treatment) and we had a tough season, too, but the girls were very supportive.

They knew to pick on me and keep my spirits up.”

Pouliot coached in the offseason as well, going to tournaments in Lake Placid and competing against teams from around the Northeast as well as Canada. He said the practices, games, and travel kept him motivated and in a positive state of mind. Some of the players still live locally and he sees them occasionally.

Since being pronounced cancer-free in 2010, he has yearly checkups in Middlebury to monitor his status. The tests are uncomfortable and he said he finds the equipment uncomfortable, but all reports continue to rule him cancer-free.

GETTING A HOBBY During his treatment, he also tied flies. As a fisherman who prefers hand-tied flies over live bait and lures, Pouliot continued to tie on his own when his schedule for work and his treatment wouldn’t allow him to head out on the boat with his daughter and son-in-law. He copied flies he saw in books and made up his own.

“I would do most of them at night when it was quiet,” he

ALTHOUGH BREAST CANCER is relatively rare in men, Yvon Pouliot was diagnosed with the disease in 2005. After feeling a lump, the Middlebury town facilities supervisory quickly made an appointment to have it diagnosed. After five years of treatment he was pronounced cancer free.

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said. “And once I got started, I’d get going and think of another one. It was exciting and it’s a good getaway.”

The flies each took anywhere from five to 30 minutes to tie. He tied hundreds of them, so many that he can’t give an accurate count, but he estimated

somewhere in the range of 200 to 300.

“It was a good hobby,” he said. “It kept my mind busy, it kept my mind away from what I was going through and I still do it off and on. It’s something that I still enjoy doing.”

This past spring, Pouliot went fishing at a popular

fishing spot in Weybridge with his brother-in-law and nephew and used one of the flies he had tied. While the others caught smaller bass, he pulled in a massive brown trout. When asked how big it was, he held up his hands.

“It was this big,” he said.

“Really, it was.”

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The Power of Dragonheart survivors row for health of body and spirit Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

By EVAN JOHNSON VERMONT — Mary Ann Castimore of Waltham remembers the finish line in Hong Kong. In a stunning upset, the United States Dragon Boat team she was a part of flew over the finish line ahead of the Australians — the world champions and favorites for the race — in the next lane.

“Our boats drifted after we crossed the finish line and everybody stopped,” she said.

“The whole Australian boat — all 22 heads just whipped and they stared at us like, ‘Who are they? What’s a Vermont?’”

Who it was was Dragonheart Vermont, a breast cancer survivor and support club that has made a name for itself as the team from a landlocked state that brings some serious competition to dragon boat races on the open water. Dragon boat races pit teams of around

20 racers in long, thin boats that paddle a straight course in competitions with other dragon boats. The Dragonheart Vermont club, which competed so successfully in the International Dragon Boat Federation’s Club Crew World Championships in Hong Kong in 2012, concluded the 2013 season with four national titles and earned the distinction to represent the United States next year in Ravenna, Italy, at the International Dragon Boat Federation Championship.

At the U.S. Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew National Championships held Sept.

13-15 on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., Dragonheart Vermont took home four gold medals in races of 200, 500, 1,000 and 2,000 meters.

Winning teams were the Dragonheart Vermont Sisters in the breast cancer survivor

WALTHAM RESIDENT MARY ANN Castimore proudly displays the medal she won as part of the Dragonheart Vermont Dragon Boat racing team last month. The team is composed of breast cancer survivors.

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division; the Dragonheart Green Mountain Girls in the women’s senior B division; Dragonheart Quicksilver in the senior C mixed division and the Dragonheart Senior Warriors in the women’s senior C division.

Linda Dyer, founder of Dragonheart Vermont and spokesperson for the breast cancer survivor team Dragonheart Vermont Sisters, said the four victories were well earned.

“To take six teams was a little exciting,” she said. “We knew our Sisters team was strong and ready to compete, but each of our teams rose to the occasion and gave their very best effort.”

The club, now boasting 175 members on six teams competing in divisions at the recent championship, has been training and competing since 2004.

Dyer came to Vermont with her husband, Vermont Technical College basketball coach John Dyer, with the goal of starting a dragon boat racing team for other breast cancer survivors.

The club’s beginnings, John Dyer said, were modest.

“We were hailing people on the side of the bike path, trying to get them to help paddle our boat across to where we wanted to store it,” he said, describing the club’s earliest days, when the Dyers went to Boston to borrow the club’s first boat for the summer in Burlington.

“That first year we were hoping just have something to start.”

By the end of that summer, membership increased to 50 and the club raised money to purchase its own boats.

This is the first year the club has had enough interest to organize a premier women’s team. A premier men’s team will begin next year.

Eugenie Doyle of Monkton is a breast cancer survivor and a paddler on the Dragonheart Sisters team. She joined after participating on a community team at the Lake Champlain

MEMBERS OF THE Dragonheart Vermont team, including Monkton resident Eugenie Doyle, celebrate their victory in the breast cancer survivor division at the U.S. Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew National Championships in New Jersey on Sept. 15.

Dragon Boat Festival, an annual fundraising and memorial race organized by the club.

Doyle described her participation in the club and her work as a farmer, as “two different worlds.” The time when the teams practiced the most coincided directly with the growing season on the farm she and her husband operate in Monkton,

Vermont.

“I’m a farmer,” she said. “So my involvement was pretty low-key. I couldn’t get away much.”

Doyle said she was able to vmake more of a commitment when the club held a fundraising event called “Dragonharvest.” Local food producers donated products to

raise money for transportation to races.

“I felt like I could provide in both,” she said. “That was an occasion where I was able to combine those two worlds.”

She said she also received support from her family and the rest of the workers at the farm.

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The Power of Studio 7 strives to help patients feel good & look good Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

By JOHN FLOWERS AND JOHN S. McCRIGHT MIDDLEBURY — Sisters Hannah Zeno and Andrea Hubbell have for years worked at making other people look and feel better. Now they are able to work together at that task — at their new business, the Studio 7 Beauty Lounge, which opened on Merchants Row in downtown Middlebury earlier this year.

In addition to the traditional services of a beauty salon, Studio 7 is also offering some novel services one wouldn’t usually associate with a conventional beauty lounge or spa.

For example, Studio 7 offers the “Look Good, Feel Better” program that was conceived by the American Cancer Society. This is a program through which they help clients choose cosmetics and head covering options as they go through chemotherapy treatments. It takes about two hours to talk to people about

their skin care concerns, along with advice on scarves and/or wigs.

“It can be very emotional,” Zeno said of the program and the process of working with people battling serious illness.

Hubbell said that since the business opened the “Look Good, Feel Better” program has been running very well.

They were happy offering the program at the Lodge at Otter Creek before Studio 7 opened, but Hubbell said that hosting cancer patients in the shop has been “really great.”

“One of the things you loose when you lose your hair is you can’t go to the salon,” she said. “Just being in the salon makes you feel really good.”

Hubbell and Zeno both bring professional backgrounds to their “Look Good, Feel Better” consultations. Hubbell earned her cosmetology degree in 1992 and then worked locally for seven years before opening her own salon in her home.

Zeno received her training in esthetics and waxing at The Salon Professional Academy.

She continued her education in Boston, studying at the International Dermal Institute and Face Forward, where she received her professional Makeup Artist Certification.

Among the things they can offer are a choice of a few Pantene Beautiful Lengths wigs. These wigs are made from donated hair, like the Locks of Love wigs.

“They’re actually really nice and they’re made from human hair,” Hubbell said.

She pointed out that those going through chemo or radiation treatments often see their skin change, so the folks at Studio 7 offer advice and use of cosmetics during this period.

“We help them work on using makeup when you have no eyebrows or eyelashes,” Hubbell said.

The salon is hosting “Look Good, Feel Better” classes

ANDREA HUBBELL, LEFT, and Hannah Zeno have been offering “Look Good, Feel Better” classes at their Studio 7 Beauty Lounge to help cancer patients feel better about their appearance during their treatments.

every three months at this point. The next class is Nov. 26, 10 a.m.-noon. They asked that those who want to take part to RSVP to 388-0007.

PINK HAIR In addition to the ongoing classes, Studio 7 Beauty Lounge during October took part in the Pink Hair For Hope campaign. During this month, patrons who made a

$10 donation to the American Cancer Society got a pink hair extension to be worn in support of breast cancer awareness.

“The Pink Hair for Hope has been really popular already and the entire charge of $10 goes to ACS,” Zeno said. “We volunteer our time and profit nothing. We love paying it forward in this great community where we have all been

affected.”

Hubbell said the said that as of last week they had raised around $300 for the American Cancer Society.

“We’ve had a lot of people, including a whole group who came from a child care center in Bristol,” she said. “It was adults and kids. We have had a little two-year who had pink hair extensions.”

Program to help out cancer patients launching in county

By JOHN FLOWERS ADDISON COUNTY — Fran Boglioli was enveloped by several emotions when she was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago. Along with the understandable fear and trepidation, she felt a sense of isolation.

“Despite all of the people around me who cared and wanted to help, I felt very alone,” Boglioli recalled. “I think that’s a pretty common problem when you’ve been diagnosed with something like (cancer).”

So she began looking for people with similar diagnoses, kindred spirits “who can relate to where you are and what it is you have to deal with to get better,” the East Middlebury resident said.

Boglioli was able to make contact with a variety of people facing similar health challenges.

“I really found that that helped,” she said. “There’s a sense of relief when you realize you’re not the only person who’s going through this, who’s having the same problems that you’re having, similar reactions to medications or issues with treatment. People who haven’t had cancer or been close to someone with cancer, it’s hard for them to realize all the stuff that’s going through your mind.”

Her quest for fellow patients ultimately led her to a cancer survivor program called Kindred Connections, offered by the Vermont Cancer Survivor Network (VCSN), a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for anyone living with, through and beyond cancer.

Kindred Connections consists of survivors who have been through cancer, are living with cancer, or are caregivers. They receive training to become good listeners and are empowered to reach out in their community to those who may need one-on-one social support.

Kindred Connections volunteers can also offer rides to doctors’ appointments, provide shopping assistance and lend a hand in other ways.

“I think this program can offer people a kind of support that they are not going to get from their friends, or their family, doctor or nurse,” Boglioli said. “It’s not going to be medical support. It’s really just going to be sort of moral support, with a little practical help thrown in when possible.”

Boglioli has had to travel to Chittenden County to participate in Kindred Connections. The program is currently offered in Franklin, Orleans, Washington, Orange, Chittenden and Lamoille counties.

But that is changing as VCSN launches Kindred

“There is so much fear.

You’re kind of like a deer in the headlights, You just don’t know exactly where to turn. Talking to someone who has been through it is kind of like a breath of fresh air in a certain way, and can be helpful.”

— Sherry Rhynard, Kindred Connections coordinator Connections in Addison County next week.

Sherry Rhynard, the survivor network’s Kindred Connections coordinator, said the organization spent this past summer recruiting volunteers in anticipation of implementing the program in the county this fall. So far she has six people signed up in Addison County to offer help to local cancer patients and cancer survivors. They will hold their first training meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 5:30 p.m. The venue for the meeting was still up in the air as of press time. To learn

the location call Rhynard toll-free at 1-800-652-5064, or send her an email at info@ vcsn.net. Those interested in volunteering may use the same contact information.

Some of the six people are in Middlebury and some are outside,” Rhynard said.

“Some are retired, some are not. Some are still dealing with cancer.”

Rhynard, herself a cancer survivor, has seen firsthand the value of Kindred Connections.

“There is so much fear.

You’re kind of like a deer in the headlights,” she said of a patient’s initial reaction after a cancer diagnosis. “You just don’t know exactly where to turn … Talking to someone who has been through it is kind of like a breath of fresh air in a certain way, and can be helpful.”

Kindred Connections volunteers who are survivors should be at least six months removed from their cancer treatment, Rhynard said.

Volunteers undergo a couple of two-hour training sessions to hone their listening skills.

They are encouraged not to emphasize their own cancer stories in their interactions with their Kindred Connections partner, according to Rhynard.

The volunteers are also trained to preserve confidentiality, to discern signs of depression, and to recommend referrals to other service providers or activities that could be of help to their match.

“This is not a support group,” Rhynard said. “It is training people to be good listeners so they can connect with people.”

Among those helping to get Kindred Connections off the ground in Addison County is Fran Boglioli. She like working with the group in Williston, but she’s happy to bring the help and support Kindred Connections offers to people in Addison County.

“My goal was to offer support other people who are undergoing the trauma of cancer,” Boglioli said. “It’s nice to have a local group.”

More information about the Kindred Connections program can be found at www.vcsn.net.

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Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

The Power of

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DAVID KRAMER, LEFT, and David Mutter, co-owners of Beau Ties Ltd., sport two of the Middlebury company’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ties. The firm’s “Ties for a Cause” program was launched in 2010 with the pink ribbon tie.

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‘Ties for a Cause’ program sows good vibes at Beau Ties

By CHRISTY LYNN MIDDLEBURY — Looped ribbons in a variety of colors have become internationally recognized symbols for causes and campaigns beginning in 1979 with the yellow ribbon to represent military support and safety. That was followed in 1991 with red ribbons used to represent AIDS research, and them perhaps most recognizably with the pink ribbon representing breast cancer awareness and research, developed largely through the Susan B Komen for the Cure foundation.

The Middlebury company Beau Ties Ltd. is one local company that has embraced an opportunity to support several charitable causes through a cause marketing program

called “Ties for a Cause” that donates 25% of the gross revenue of designated ties to chosen foundations.

“It is a part of our corporate culture to give and makes us feel good as much as it makes our customers feel good,” says Cy Tall, chief marketing coordinator for Beau Ties.

Tall says supporting local as well as national campaigns has always been a part of the program at Beau Ties, since the company’s start under Bill Kenerson in 1993.

The “Ties for a Cause” program was launched with the pink ribbon tie in 2010, featuring a navy bow tie with pink ribbons printed on the fabric.

Throughout October’s National Breast Cancer

Awareness Month, Beau has been able to donate about Ties will feature this origi- $1000 to the Breast Cancer nal pattern Research as well as Foundation. about a “It is a part of our “ T h e dozen other corporate culture hardest part pink bow about giving ties, neck- to give and makes is choosties, scarves, us feel good as ing what to and other support,” p r o d u c t s , much as it makes Tall says, helping to our customers feel “we keep support some the the Breast good” same, like C a n c e r — Cy Tall, chief the breast R e s e a r c h marketing coordinator for cancer ties, Foundation. we Beau Ties and At an averswitch some age retail smaller price of $45-$65 per tie, that’s organizations in and out.” about $13.75 donated from “We try to choose one each sale to this charitable organization to support for cause. Looking back over the each cause — even though past year, Tall says Beau Ties we would love to be able to

give to everyone — so we can make a meaningful contribution to the cause,” Tall explained.

Currently, Beau Ties is supporting eight causes with the Ties for a Cause program, choosing one charitable beneficiary for each cause. Most of the causes are represented with a “ribbon tie”, using a specific colored ribbon to design a fabric for these special ties (light blue ribbons on a navy tie support the Prostate Cancer Foundation, gold ribbons on a navy tie support the Ronald McDonald House, etc).

Beau Ties is largely a mail order and online business, with only about two percent of their sales coming directly out of their onsite retail shop

in Middlebury. However, with 15 employees hand-making the 35,000-45,000 ties they sell annually and another nine employees working at their Middlebury office, Tall says the company is proud to be a strong part of the local community as well as the larger community.

“The sense of community at this small company is very pervasive,” she says, “If we dropped the Ties for a Cause campaign tomorrow I’m not sure it would account for a hugely measurable loss in sales, but I know our employees would complain and I think a lot of customers would too. It’s been something that has connected us more closely to different groups of people, which is important to us.”

BEAU TIES LTD. donates 25 percent of the gross revenue generated by its National Breast Cancer Awareness Month pink ribbon ties to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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Addison County Breast Cancer Awareness

The Power of

Food is a powerful therapy What you eat has a huge impact on the success of your breast cancer recovery strategy. Here are the best and worst foods you can eat when you are going through breast cancer healing.

Best Foods

Dark leafy greens – beet greens, spinach, kale, arugula, Swiss chard, collards Lemons – make 3-lemon lemonade with Stevia and drink a batch each day Garlic – it picks up heavy metals in your blood stream, fights flu, improves immunity Carrots and carrot juice – carrots have direct, anti-cancer properties Beets, beet juice and beet greens – beets are powerful cancer fighters Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, kale, cauliflower – eat some every day Celery and celery root – celery cleans your blood and boosts your immune system Sweet potatoes and yams – bright orange beta-carotene is a cancer fighter Blueberries, strawberries, apples, cranberries – eat these fruits unsweetened Bananas – several times a week Sockeye salmon from Alaska (red) – lean, clean protein with antioxidants; canned is fine!

Chicken thigh meat, skinless – quality protein and important vitamins Organic local eggs – b-vitamins, important fats (boiled best, 1-3 a week) Extra virgin live oil, coconut oil and organic pasture butter Green tea, mint tea, ginger tea, sage tea – each has a healing effect

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Worst Foods

Tammy Baker, RN

Sugar – Cancer loves all sugar, but fructose is the worst. So corn syrup and agave syrup promote cancer faster than table sugar, but all sugar promotes cancer. The hardest to give up is maple syrup, but you must. The sweetener called “pure stevia leaf” will help you through.

Dairy milk – hard to say in Vermont, home of the Holstein and the best cheese in the world, but avoid milk, cheese and all milk products while you are fighting cancer. A small amount of goat or sheep milk or cheese is OK 1-2 times a week.

Bread, baked goods, wheat pasta – wheat causes inflammation, promoting cancer.

Substitute rice pasta and make Irish soda bread from millet and buckwheat flours. Keep your overall grain consumption down while recovering from cancer.

Sausages, packaged and deli meats, frozen or prepared foods – cook your own fresh, local meats in the simplest style – roast or make a stew, don’t fry.

Grain alcohol – avoid altogether as it uses up important, limited toxin-processing capacity in your liver and kidneys, which you need for drugs and dying cancer cells Beer – made from wheat and containing alcohol (sugar) beer is off the list.

Wine – while you are in treatment, keep wine to 1-2 glasses a week; it is sugar Hydrogenated oils like Crisco or margarine, and processed vegetable oils like Mazola, Canola and soy oils – they cause inflammation and block cell to cell communications (one reason cancer cells invade other tissue is because they don’t listen!).

Editor’s note: This story was provided by Nancy Elizabeth Shaw, a life-long resident of Vermont who is a research professional, writer and director of the Cancer Alternative Wellness Center (www.thecanceralternative.com).

(See Page 14C for some delicious cancer fighting recipes)

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2013 Annual Meeting Thursday, November 14th, 2013 5:00 to 7:00 pm 109 Catamount Park, Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 5:00-5:30 pm: Registration, Hors d’oeuvres 5:30-7:00 pm: Welcome, Program and Award Presentations

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Dragonheart (Continued from Page 4C) son have played competitive sports so my family felt like it was my turn. They made it very easy for me to participate in both,” Doyle said.

Steve Murphy serves on the board of directors for Dragonheart Vermont and also competes on the Quicksilver team. Murphy began competing in 2006 and said the teams have become more competitive every year.

“We’ve come a long way in our abilities,” he said.

“The improvement is quite remarkable.”

At Lake Mercer, the Sisters team lost a race by a hair — 0.05 seconds. They then won the next two heats by two boat lengths.

John Dyer, who initially rowed and now coaches the

Dragonheart Vermont teams, said it takes one to two years for members to go from casual participants to serious competitors.

“It usually takes a year or two before the bug bites,” he said.

“At first we were just happy to be out in the boats celebrating life, but the ladies started coming forward and saying, ‘We want to start winning.’”

Mary Ann Castimore said that competitive spirit was surprising.

“I never thought I was a competitive person until I put myself in a dragon boat. When I’m in a boat, I’m competitive.”

Castimore first paddled on a community team during the first dragon boat festival in 2006. She joined Dragonheart Vermont the following week and attended “Newbie Camp”

— a one-week intensive course to learn the fundamentals. Even though she was an experienced kayak and canoe paddler, she found the style and pace of the sport to be completely different.

“I was a slow learner,” she said. “They would say, ‘Mary Ann! Twist more! Straighten out your arms! Use your core!’ It was a very humbling experience.”

Now she paddles in the “engine room,” the middle of the 41-foot long fiberglass boat where bigger, more powerful members of the crew sit.

As the boat races forward, the momentum drives the bow out of the water. The “engine room” is responsible for generating much of the power while stabilizing the boat.

After the September races,

the boats have been pulled out and stored for the colder months.

“We’re kind of going through withdrawal now,” Castimore said.

Since then, Dragonheart Vermont team members will continue a regimen of cross training for seven months in the off-season combined with workouts on the water.

During the season, teams routinely paddle 10 to 12 kilometers every practice on Lake Champlain. Castimore said she exercises and attends fitness classes regularly to stay in top condition.

“You get in shape to dragon boat, you don’t dragon boat to get in shape,” she said.

“Dragon boating is great exercise, but the stronger you are, the better you do.”

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And the training and instruction has paid off. Now, John Dyer said, “They breathe fire when they get into that boat.”

In addition to competing at the international level, the Dragonheart Vermont Sisters will also compete at a breast cancer survivor race organized by the International Breast Cancer Paddler’s Commission in October 2014.

Over 100 teams from around the world are scheduled to compete in Sarasota, Fla., but Dragonheart Vermont is the only club to send teams from the Green Mountain State.

Despite the thrill of competing (and in their case, winning), members insist the club remains focused on connecting with other cancer survivors and promoting the growth of the sport,

which they point out is the second-most popular sport in the world after soccer.

“When we’re in the boat, our eyes are in the boat and we’re fierce competitors,” Castimore said. “But once we’re out of the boat, we’re going over and we’re talking to them. There’s that competitive edge on the water, but when we’re off the water we know we’re all basically in the same situation.”

Doyle said group provided a kind of support for survivors not found elsewhere.

“It’s been the only kind of support group I wanted to be involved in,” she said. “It’s very active, very focused on living every day, making the most of our health and being compassionate towards others who are literally in the same boat.”

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Hockey heroines THE MIDDLEBURY OTTERS and the Middlebury Mystix, two women’s community ice hockey teams, host the annual “Face Off Against Breast Cancer” hockey tournament each January at the Memorial Sports Center in Middlebury to raise funds for the statewide Cancer Patient Support Program. Below right, Middlebury Mystix player Sally Ober displays her much-autographed Face Off mask.

Over its 14-year history the tournament has raised more than $300,000 for charity. The tournament was established in 2000, when a member of the Middlebury Otters was diagnosed with breast cancer. Fortunately, her survivor story is now a success. The need for support continues, however: One in eight women will face a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime. This winter’s Face Off Against Breast Cancer tournament will be held Jan. 25-26, 2014.

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Glaze transforms her home to accommodate cancer retreats

By CHRISTY LYNN True philanthropy is at work in Killington as Taylor Glaze offers her home as a site for a new cancer retreat center, Forest Moon.

Glaze is a cancer survivor herself, and was so moved by her experience at her first Forest Moon retreat last August that she decided to join the cause. Glaze, now retired, says everything came together at the right time.

“After (my retreat) was over, I decided I needed to do something to help others have this wonderful experience that I had,” she said, “I want to be here to help and to serve.”

Forest Moon is a nonprofit organization based in Brattleboro that was founded in 2004 by cancer survivors Cindy and Phil Blood of Gilford. Its mission is to provide affordable, activitybased support programs to improve the well being of cancer survivors and their

loved ones in New England.

Retreat workshops offered at Forest Moon sites help cancer survivors process emotional, physical, spiritual and psychological traumas associated with their cancer.

Glaze explains that workshops are intended to help cancer survivors readjust after the last chemotherapy session.

“It is such a catharsis and a relief to be in the company of other people who get it,” she says.

Weekend sessions involve art, sculpture, collage and dance, as well as therapeutic time talking and getting to know other participants and their similar struggles. It is designed to offer a supportive community for individuals whose lives have changed dramatically, often leaving them feeling lonely and unsure of the next step.

Glaze said she decided to turn her home into a retreat center for Forest Moon

because she feels that “this is for the retreats. really the next step we need The spacious post and beam in this whole cancer issue. home was built for Glaze and You need to help the survivors her husband in 2007 and can readjust.” accommodate up to 12 guests She recalls the heal- comfortably. Glaze designed ing process the home of “being herself, surrounded including a by absolute “This is really lofted paintstrangers, very ing studio, well trained the next step we massage and profes- need in this whole room, and sional facilitasmall pool tors, in a very cancer issue. used for calm setting, You need to help water exerand things that cises. The you would the survivors home will never even readjust.” be open for want to tell Forest Moon — Taylor Glaze p r o g r a m your family or your children participants — because to enjoy, you don’t want free of cost. to burden them — you wind Glaze has had a long love up discussing. It is such a with Killington after living in catharsis.” town for 10 years from 1965 Glaze has not only donated to 1975. While she moved to the space, but also her services an avocado ranch in California as a chef and a nutrition expert to raise her three boys, she

never forgot Vermont. In 2001, Glaze was lured back to Killington, where she married a long-time friend and life-long Vermonter, Red Glaze. The couple opened a Killington restaurant, Café Toast, which has since become Dominic’s Upscale Pizza Joint and is run by her son and daughter-in-law, Nick and Stephanie Chiarella.

While Glaze’s home will now provide space for lodging and dining during seminars, most of the programs and projects will occur in a building detached from the house.

Affectionately called “the Cupola” after its decorative rooftop “hat,” this specially designed building will host the majority of workshops.

The new retreat site is located on Dean Hill Road, just off the Killington access road. The first retreat, this past July, was a craft workshop that provided participants the opportunity to make a unique

plaster cast of their torso and later decorate it. This process was intended to help breast cancer survivors face issues surrounding body image and provide a forum for discussion and sharing.

All Forest Moon retreat seminars are offered to participants free or at low cost and include lodging, meals, workshops and programs. Each is run by facilitators who are also cancer survivors and are supported by individual donations and grants from charitable organizations.

Glaze hopes to gain enough local aid to support each seminar offered at her home.

Among those who’ve already taken early action, is social worker Jessica Greco of Foley Cancer Center. Greco will be working to spread word of the new center in the area among her contacts and colleagues at Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Woman to Woman Cancer Support Group.

Eye catchers SOME LOCAL HIGH school teams raised awareness about breast cancer this month by donning special uniforms. In their Oct. 11 game, the Mount Abraham field hockey squad wore pink shirts and socks with pink ribbons on them; the Middlebury team sported bright pink socks.

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Tears evaporate like any other liquid. You can take steps to prevent evaporation.

In winter, when indoor heating is in use, a humidifier or a pan of water on the radiator adds moisture to dry air. Wraparound glasses may reduce the drying effect of the wind.

Some people may find dry-eye relief by supplementing their diet with omega-3 fatty acids, which are found naturally in foods like oily fish (salmon, sardines, anchovies) and flax seeds.

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A special time RELAY FOR LIFE, an all-night walk staged at the Middlebury College athletic fields, draws hundreds of participants each April to walk laps all night to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. But the event is about more than just raising money. It is a time for cancer survivors to celebrate their victory over the disease, for families to remember those they have lost to breast cancer, and for cancer patients to feel the support of the community.

The 10th annual event last April 26 and 27 drew 520 people who, as is traditional, set up tents on Friday evening and walked laps until the middle of Saturday morning. There were performances by student bands, a cappella groups, a community children’s tae kwon do demonstration, sharing of food and a full night of building hope.

A high point for many is always lighting the luminaria — a long line of white paper bags that each have a candle in them (left).

“Although it was incredibly emotional, seeing the reasons why people you know, and don’t know, are relaying and who their loved ones are who they are here fighting back for is always one of the best parts of the night,” said Relay for Life Co-chair Marissa Hurwitz. “Knowing you’re not alone in your fight makes everything better.”

This year’s 10th annual walk in Middlebury raised nearly $77,000 for the American Cancer Society. The 11th annual relay is slated for May 2 and 3, 2014.

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All Porter Hospital Practices

A MORE PERFECT PRACTICE Doctors James Malcolm & Alan Ayer – proud of their 30-year tradition of caring represented by Addison Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology – are enthusiastic about the bright future that Doctors Benvenuto, Turner and Wagner will help to ensure. Each doctor is board certified in OB/GYN. Anna Benvenuto received her BA from Middlebury College and absolutely loves living in Addison County. After earning her MD at UVM she continued to do her residency at Fletcher Allen.

“Maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with my patients is key to my professional outlook and goals. Not sure which is more beautiful – the Adirondacks or the Green Mountains, so the kids and I hike & bike in both.”

throughout Addison County and Brandon are Now Accepting New Patients, and Those Listed Below Are Offering New and Expanded Office Hours.

The following area practices now offer early morning or evening office hours for the convenience of our patients—

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Addison Family Medicine – 388.7185 Monday and Tuesday evening hours until 8:00 p.m.

Bristol Internal Medicine – 453.7422 David Turner studied at Dartmouth Medical School, and received his MD from Brown University School of Medicine.

We’re lucky to have him back on this coast and the shores of Lake Champlain after his residency at Tacoma Family Medicine.

“I believe in educating patients so they can make their own decisions about their care. Love to play soccer!”

Most Tuesday and Wednesday evengs until 7:00 p.m. & Thursday mornings beginning at 7:00 a.m.

Porter Internal Medicine – 388.8805 Morning appointments available beginning at 7:00 a.m.

Tapestry Midwifery – 877.0022 Scheduled evening hours available by appointment.

Katherine Wagner earned her MD from UVM and did both her Internship and Residency in OB/GYN at Fletcher Allen.

“It’s crucial that we don’t lose sight of compassion as we continually strive for the most up-to-date care. Living on our family farm and cooking home-grown meals helps me keep perspective on what’s important.”

Middlebury Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine – 388.7959 Evening hours: Monday until 8 p.m.; Wednesday & Thursday until 8:30 p.m.

Little City Family Practice – 877.3466 Monday evening hours until 6:30 p.m.

We’re proud of our legacy of providing complete, flexible, specialty OB/GYN care. Our team of providers specializes in: Office Gynecology and Obstetrical Care, Family Planning, Gynecological Surgery including Laparoscopic Procedures, Menopause, Infertility and In-Office Ultrasounds.

Neshobe Family Medicine – 247.3755 Monday and Wednesday evening hours starting in September.

ADDISON ASSOCIATES IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Physician’s Building, Porter Medical Center 116 Porter Drive, Middlebury VT

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