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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Can You Assist?

I am writing tonight to all those who read Conservative Musings to ask you to support my family's charity named Stephens Soldiers Foundation. We are a 501c(3) charity which helps support kids who have had cancer. Our son had cancer in 2008 and we are blessed that he survived the experience and is now in his first year of medical school.

To support our mission, we provide activity bags at The University Of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan and at William Beaumont Cancer Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. We also provide education and parent and patient support at both of those facilities.

In addition, a local company, Producers Choice, and Stephens Soldiers have joined together to annually give scholarships to incoming freshman college students who have had cancer previously in their lives and live in southeast Michigan (Detroit area). The amount given to each awardee is $2500. On top of that, this year we are also starting a new scholarship for kids who have had cancer but are going into graduate school. The award is the same. Those scholarships will be awarded in a week.

To support these efforts, we raise money through different events. In the fall, we have Shave To Save, where Conservative Tom goes totally bald. However, what I want to bring to your attention is the upcoming comedy night which will be held on June 24 in Novi, Michigan. We will have four comedians, the headliner is Connie Ettinger (a reformed, rehabilitated lawyer.) She is hilarious and if you are in the area please contact me at 248-645-6920 and we will set up your reservations.

We know that many of you are elsewhere in the US and around the world. So how can you help out our charity? Money of course works, but we also need items for our silent auction. Any contribution from $1 to a million would be welcome and will help us help kids who have had cancer.Please email me at sixspeedtom@ymail.com or bvorenberg@stephenssoldiers.org and tell us how you want to help out.

Can you spare a buck?

Thanks for all of your support.

Conservative Tom

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Donation Update--Please help us!

Update:

As of today, I have raised $1814 for Stephens Soldiers however, I would like to double my goal of $1000 so I am only $186 from doing that. Can you please help? Kids with cancer will benefit!

Thanks so much to those who have already donated.

Conservative Tom

Tom Vorenberg's Page

Each fall usually in September, I request that you help me out with my annual fundraising for Stephens Soldiers and our event, Shave To Save. This event became a yearly event four years ago when we started raising money for childhood cancer in honor to our son (Stephen) who is a cancer survivor and currently in medical school with the goal of treating kids with cancer.

Each year we have raised money to support our organization and its goal of education of the public on childhood cancer, to support organizations like the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society who daily are getting closer to finding a cure for blood cancers and the Rainbow Connection which provides "a dream" to Michigan kids who have or have had life threatening diseases. Additionally, we have teamed up with a local company, Producers Choice Network to provide scholarships to former cancer patients who will be attending college in the fall as freshmen. So far we have given away over $12,500 in scholarships. We have had some real successes.

However, the most fun for me is that sometime in late October (probably Halloween), I will be shaving my head for "Shave To Save". Now I know that most of you do not want me to shave it all off and that is OK but I know there are some of you who like the bald look! So this year I am making a contest of it. I will match the group that gives the most dollars to our event! Let's really hurt my pocket book!

If you wish to contribute, you can send a check to Stephens Soldiers Foundation, 28580 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 150, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 or on the net: https://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/TomVorenberg/TomVorenbergspage

(For those who already have contributed --thank you so much)

Thanks for supporting kids with cancer.

Conservative Tom

P.S. Stephens Soldiers Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) charitable foundation registered with the IRS. Check out our website at Stephenssoldiers.org

Thursday, October 22, 2015

The "New" Miracle Drug, Aspirin?

Study to Determine if Aspirin Blocks Cancer Recurrences

(Copyright DPC)

Thursday, 22 Oct 2015 12:14 AM

British researchers have launched the world's largest clinical trial to determine whether aspirin can prevent cancer from recurring.

About 11,000 people who have had bowel, breast, prostate, stomach and, esophageal cancer will be involved in the study, funded by the charity Cancer Research UK and the research arm of the British National Health Service, BBC News reports.

Patients will take a tablet every day for five years. If it proves successful, it could be a game-changer – confirming that aspirin’s anti-cancer qualities are real and that the standby painkiller is a cheap and effective way to help more patients survive.

Researchers will compare groups of patients taking different doses of aspirin with people taking dummy (placebo) pills and check for any recurrences of cancer.

Friday, September 19, 2014

Doing Our Small Part To Help Children With Cancer

Most of you do not know that our son, Stephen, was stricken with lymphoma, a type of cancer when he was fifteen. Thankfully and with the help of good doctors, great medicine and a lot of prayer, he has been in remission for five years. (We are not bragging, just reporting as cancer can and does come back!)

He now is a senior at Michigan State University where he is majoring in microbiology with the intention of going to medical school and becoming a pediatric oncologist. The disease gave him a focus and he has been single minded in that direction since the time he heard those dreaded words "you have cancer."

Two years ago we created a foundation, Stephens Soldiers (http://stephenssoldiers.org) to raise attention to childhood cancer, to provide education on this dreaded disease, to support other patients and families of children with cancer and to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Rainbow Connection.

Providing scholarships to survivors has always been one of our goals and this year we added a corporate sponsor, Producers Choice, who has agreed to provide the funds for three scholarships for the next four years.

Should you know any child in the south east Michigan who is a childhood cancer survivor and is a senior in high school and is planning to go to college next fall or in college, please direct him or her to website (http://stephenssoldiers.org) for details and the application. The top prize is $5000.

Additionally, we are also raising money for our annual "Shave To Save" promotion. As we did last year, we are finding out who would love to see Tom shave his head and mustache. There are some who would like to see us bald and clean shaven and others will pay for it not to happen. You can join Tom's team by going to the website (http://stephenssoldiers.org) and under the top banner "Shave To Save", click to join Tom's team (or start your own) and help us by making a contribution. We will keep you posted as to how we are doing.

We are grateful for our good fortune and as part of giving back, we are trained parent advocates at the University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital. When needed we sit down with parents going through the terror of having their diagnosed with cancer. It is helpful to have someone who has been in your position to whom you can talk. It is small thing to do but rewarding for us.

Thank you in advance for helping kids with cancer. Please be generous, the money you give will get us closer to the cure.

Conservative Tom

P.S. A recent article in the Michigan State University paper, The State News, features our son and his work with other students who have had cancer.

For MSU's cancer survivors, the fight is personal

By Julie Angell | Published 4 hours ago

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Fall is a busy time for social work senior Sarah Hoffman. She’s balancing her school work along with two jobs and an internship, all before graduating in the spring.

She’s also remembering the anniversary of the death of her best friend and boyfriend. They both passed away from brain cancer, a disease that has also taken some of Hoffman’s family members.

“I've gone through so much and I want people to understand how important cancer awareness and cancer research is,” Hoffman said.

In addition to her two jobs, internship and classes, Hoffman is also the president of Spartans Fighting Cancer, MSU’s chapter of the American Cancer Society’s Colleges Against Cancer nationwide program.

Cancer is something Hoffman has had to face since she was eight years old, when she was diagnosed with leukemia. After she left the hospital where she was being treated, she went to a camp for kids with cancer and met her now late boyfriend.

While many students were celebrating their first year at MSU, Hoffman was dealing with the death of her boyfriend, who passed away in October 2009. During her sophomore year, she discovered the club and became a member.

More than 10 members in Spartans Fighting Cancer are childhood cancer survivors.

This January will mark 14 years since Hoffman heard the words, “you have cancer” for the first time.

“Great New Year’s gift,” she said, laughing.

Hoffman keeps a positive attitude about her battles with the disease, and her experiences led her to a vocation. She said she wants to either become a hospital social worker, work for the American Cancer Society or Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Spartans Fighting Cancer has also made a positive impact on microbiology senior Stephen Vorenberg, who’s in charge of fundraising and sponsorship for the club.

“Once I joined I instantly wanted to do as much as I could,” Vorenberg said. “It’s been a great experience, I wish more people would get involved.”

After he was diagnosed with cancer at 15 years old, Vorenberg noticed how many survivors surrounded him. When he joined Spartans Fighting Cancer, his circle of friends who have survived the disease grew even more.

“Once you're exposed to something, you start to notice it more often,” Vorenberg said.

After his diagnosis, he gained a passion for bringing awareness to the disease and raising money for it.

“With cancer, everyone is in some way affected by it,” Vorenberg said. “No matter what, someone has felt cancer in a certain way. Someone has experienced it.”

The fall is a time for club members like Hoffman to remember the disease that 15,780 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 will be diagnosed with, the National Cancer Institute estimates.

Members of Spartans Fighting Cancer left Sparticipation last week with 10 pages of paper filled with names of students who are interested in joining. The first meeting of the year had more than 30 people attend, and Hoffman is still receiving many emails from students wanting to join.

“This year we are going to get a ton of support,” Hoffman said.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Can You Help Us Raise Money To Fight Childhood Cancer

Nearly five years ago, our athletic, healthy eating child of fifteen came down with Lymphoma. This is a shock to any family and it turned our world upside down for a year while he was undergoing care at the University of Michigan Cancer Hospital. Fortunately for us, he is in remission and is now a junior at Michigan State University majoring in microbiology.

After our experience, we decided that we needed to give back. Our family started Stephen's Soldiers Foundation, a 501(c) 3 charity (stephenssoldiers.org) to raise money to help children and young adults with cancer. To that end we have an upcoming event this coming Sunday here in suburban Detroit.

The event is called "Shave To Save." The idea is that many of us will be shaving our heads in an effort to raise money and to support those who are fighting cancer. We are participating, however, have taken it one step further.

You see, Conservative Tom has a mustache (a full and bushy one) and there are mixed opinions regarding the shaving of the it as part of the "shaving." So when you make your contribution, please let us know if we should keep it or shave it? So far the "keep it" people are in the lead.

Thanks for your help, all the children with cancer appreciate your help.

Conservative Tom

P.S. The details of the event are in the following article. If you live in the Detroit area, please come by, we would like to meet you.

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Help Stephen's Soldiers Support Childhood Cancer Research, Programs

Stephen Vorenberg will be among those who shave their heads at Great Clips in Farmington Hills on Sept. 15.

Posted by Joni Hubred-Golden (Editor) , September 09, 2013 at 07:26 PM

In his fourth year of remission, Stephen Vorenberg will shave his head to raise funds to fight childhood cancers. Photo credit: Stephen Vorenberg

Stephen Vorenberg was just 15 years old when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2008.

Now in his fourth year of remission, he will shave his head Sept. 15 at the Halsted Village Great Clips, Halsted and 12 Mile Roads in Farmington Hills, to raise funds for a foundation he helped create called Stephen's Soldiers. The event is open to anyone willing to lose a little hair to support childhood cancer research, community education and programs for young cancer patients and their families.