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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 23, 2012

MEDIA ADVISORY

Wednesday, Jan. 25; Noon
Rep. Schafer to speak at Radon Action Rally

WHAT: Join Rep. Sue Schafer when she speaks at the Radon Action Rally hosted by Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CanSAR). This rally is to help raise public awareness about Radon gas, one of the leading causes of lung cancer in the state. Rep. Schafer will be discussing her bill (HB-1165) that will require Radon testing to be conducted prior to selling a home.

WHO: Sue Schafer (D-Wheat Ridge)
Faye Dugan, Colorado Coordinator, CanSAR
And others

WHERE: Colorado State Capitol (map)
West Steps
200 E. Colfax
Denver, Colorado 80203

WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 at Noon

In Des Moines a bipartisan group of House and Senate members are forming a “cancer caucus” to raise awareness and share collective knowledge among legislators and their constituents about a large group of different diseases that claim more than 6,000 Iowans’ lives every year, and CanSAR member Gail Orcutt was a major contributor. Prevention, treatment, and cures are what Iowans are interested in according to Rep. Scott Raecker, R-Urbandale, whose father died from melanoma – a dangerous form of skin cancer. Most all families in Iowa have been touched by some type of cancer. To organize the caucus and decide its role in the policy-making arena, Raecker, Rep. Dan Kelley, D-Newton and Sens. Pat Ward, R-West Des Moines, and Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, have held an initial telephonic meeting with Dr. George Weiner, president of the Iowa Cancer Consortium and director of the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.

January 1, 2012
Ms. Wendy Dew
US EPA Region 8
1595 Wynkoop Street
Denver, CO 80202-2466

Dear Wendy,

Please consider my recommendation for Christina and Eric Bear for the President’s Environmental Youth Award for 2012 for Region 8. Winning the EPA’s National Radon Poster Contest for the state of Colorado was just the beginning of Christina and Eric’s endeavors to save lives through awareness, education and policy changes concerning the radioactive gas—radon. My first opportunity to meet them in person came at the Healthy Homes Conference in Denver, Colorado, in July 2010 as they visited our Cancer Survivors Against Radon (CanSAR) Booth.

December 8, 2011

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Please don’t sacrifice lives with budget cuts. My husband died of radon-induced lung cancer. We were not aware of radon--the leading environmental cause of cancer mortality--until our doctor told us about this radioactive exposure from the inhalation of alpha particles emitting from the exposure of radon gas and suggested we test our home. The test resulted with elevated levels of this known human carcinogen.

December 15, 2011

Merry Christmas dear friends,

Thank you for all of your previous support especially the past two years. CanSAR is officially a nonprofit 501 c3 organization as of June, 2010.

CanSAR’s goal for National Radon Action Month is to have supporters on the steps of the state capitol in at least 10 to states in the nation on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 12:00 noon. CanSAR needs your help to make this happen. I will be in Springfield, IL, on the Capitol steps.

It is my desire to have participation in your state to help raise awareness and increase the education of the public about the danger of living and working in elevated levels of this silent killer which takes the lives of approximately 21,000 individuals each year. To accomplish this mission several things need to transpire:

Pro Ten Services, official UK Radon TEE coordinators have launched the United Kingdom leg of the trek with visits to the Health Protection Agency and the British Research Establishment. On its first outing, the UK TEE accompanied ProTen Managing Director, Martin Freeman, to a consultation meeting at the Health Protection Agency, where potential changes to radon policies were discussed. The following day, the TEE attended a symposium at BRE Headquarters on estates management for school bursars, where ProTen Services presented a seminar on radon risks, regulations and remediation techniques. The city of Bath has become the latest stop on the Radon TEE World Trek UK tour. Famed for its Georgian architecture, Roman thermal spa and being the one-time home to Jane Austen, Bath is the only city in Britain to be designated as a World Heritage Site.

SIL Radon Awareness Task Force, Inc., in conjunction with Illinois Emergency Management Agency, American Lung Association of Illinois, and Cancer Survivors against Radon – CanSAR, sponsored a Radon Awareness Lunch on January 20, 2010 at Gibby’s on the Green in Whittington, IL. Among the attendees were three of the ten homeowners who received free radon mitigation systems in 2009 as part of the Southern Illinois Radon Awareness Initiative. The well-attended event also included representatives of area County Health Departments, County Extension offices, Colleges, Boards of Education, real estate offices and businessmen and women in the area.

A great idea and the time is right

—a little t-shirt can save lives, but not on its own. It needs the help of committed, dedicated and caring individuals. Help Radon TEE shine its light on radon-induced lung cancer and save lives.

TEE had great success in Kentucky. This Social Media Networking Campaign will have an impact on your state like you have not seen before, if you make it happen. It is our hope to get PA, WA, TN, OR, MI, and WI signed up right away, but we need a team captain for the states. We want all of the states to participate. Please help out by stepping up for your state. You can contact me at seascape@htc.net or 618 830 4660 and we will get the ball in play for you. We already have AL, NC, OH, IL, MN, MA and Utah on board our little TEE Train.

Join the Radon TEE’s face book page at www.facebook.com/radontee

The Radon Tee webinar screencast is available on RadonLeaders.org http://www.radonleaders.org/resources/RadonTeeWebinar