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[caption id="attachment_109971" align="alignright" width="387"] MaryTherese (MT) Berg[/caption] The LivingWell Cancer Resource Center is fortunate to have a volunteer advisory council with members who offer their expertise, time and resources to enable LivingWell to continue to provide cancer support programs and services at no cost to the community. The current chair...
Many hands and hearts came together to help bring hope and joy to patients and families at the Northwestern Medicine Delnor, Warrenville and Kishwaukee Hospital Cancer Centers. It all started when Pastor Kim Neace at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church in St. Charles, Ill., noticed a “helping hands” art project...
Heather Avery recently joined LivingWell Cancer Resource Center as our Wellness Coordinator, overseeing all of our fitness, yoga and relaxation programs as well as teaching some of them. Heather is a certified yoga instructor, meditation teacher, life coach, licensed massage therapist as well as an esthetician and has been working...
[caption id="attachment_109334" align="alignright" width="510"] Nancy Brackmann with her 2021 bumper crop at Brackmann Farm in St. Charles, Illinois.[/caption] For the past several years, the pumpkins given to families attending LivingWell’s Halloween parties and drive-through pumpkin patches have been donated by Nancy Brackmann, a local resident, newly retired senior banking trust...
[caption id="attachment_109306" align="alignright" width="400"] Tammy Kovacs and her son, Officer Ryan Kovacs, during Ryan's swearing-in ceremony at the Rochelle Police Department.[/caption] The Rochelle Police Department has partnered with the Pink Patch Project to sell pink patches and apparel to raise money for breast cancer awareness. All proceeds are being donated...
[caption id="attachment_109224" align="alignright" width="400"] Nandita Kothari, self portrait, 2021.[/caption] When Nandita Kothari walked into the LivingWell Cancer Resource Center in 2018, art was not on her radar. The breast cancer survivor was healing from a mastectomy and came to LivingWell with a friend to learn more about it. She tried...
The PRIDE of St. Charles - BP gas station, located at 1505 Lincoln Highway (Route 38 and Bricher Road), now has a “SPIRIT PUMP” decked out in full LivingWell graphics. Every time you gas up at this pump—and all PRIDE Store pumps—LivingWell receives a portion of the proceeds! Learn more...
[caption id="attachment_109073" align="alignright" width="500"] Alyssa Watanapongse and her mom, Jennifer, with the port pillows Alyssa sewed for LivingWell participants.[/caption] Incoming St. Charles North High School freshman Alyssa Watanapongse, 13, has been on a mission this summer. The determined honor student taught herself how to sew “port pillows,” which attach to...
[caption id="attachment_109031" align="alignright" width="300"] Jeri Davis' coloring book, "Greetings from Chemo Country," provides a humorous take on the cancer experience.[/caption] In the quiet moments during her cancer treatment, Jeri Davis didn’t turn to inspirational readings or soothing music to help her cope. Instead, she used her wicked sense of humor...
[caption id="attachment_108992" align="alignright" width="400"] Cancer survivor Joy Harmon’s hope is to provide support and bring joy to patients during a very trying time in their lives.[/caption] If you’ve ever wondered if there is good in the world, you haven’t met Joy Harmon. Harmon, a young married mom living in Naperville,...
