Relay for Life in Fremont this Weekend-June 28th & 29th!

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Celebrate, Remember, and Fight Back on June 28, 2008, California School for the Deaf.

Each year, across the nation, one event brings together entire communities to take part in the fight against cancer. That event is the American Cancer Society Relay For Life®. It’s a time and place where people come to celebrate those who have survived cancer, remember those we’ve lost, and fight back against a disease that touches too many lives. Won’t you join us this year and be a part of Relay?

It’s not just an opportunity to celebrate, remember, and fight back your involvement will help the American Cancer Society work toward a mission of eliminating cancer as major health issue and will support much-needed services in your community. Thanks in part to the donations from Relay For Life and other events, the Society is saving lives, helping those touched by cancer, and empowering people to fight this disease all over the world.

Relay For Life of Fremont
California School for the Deaf
39350 Gallaudet Dr
Fremont, CA
Starts: 6/28/08 10:00 AM
Ends: 6/29/08 10:00 AM
Event Distance: 2.25

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Bay Area Air Quality-ABC Local News Update June 24,2008

By Carolyn Johnson SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Brought to you by Rusty and Kim, www.RustyandKim.com – There is a noticeable smell of smoke and haze that is hanging over the Bay Area from all of the wildfires. The air quality has suffered and there are health risks.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said for early Monday evening the smoke is mainly a risk for people living in direct proximity of the Napa Fire. Regardless, precautions are also being taken in other parts of the Bay Area to protect the most vulnerable.
As smoke continued to billow from the Brisbane Fire, students at the nearby Bayshore Community Center in Daly City were pulled inside to play. Director Joe Egan says it is the second time in the last month that fires have forced him to act.

Some of the kids have asthma that can trigger asthma attacks. It’s hard breathing just running around. There’s the smell for one. It’s just easier to keep them inside and just know it’s safe,” said Joseph Egan, director of the Bayshore Community Center.
Meanwhile, meteorologists at the Regional Air Quality Management District are monitoring satellite images and readouts, measuring particulate matter in the air. At this point, they say those pollution levels are at the high end of moderate, just short of being declared unhealthy.
“Generally we issue a Spare the Air advisory or health advisory when we see air quality levels that are above the moderate level. That is unhealthy for sensitive groups. We haven’t reached that, right now, as of yet,” said Kristine Roselius of the Regional Air Quality Management District.
Still, doctors advise parents to keep an eye on their kids, if they live near one of the active fire areas. And don’t hesitate to bring them to an emergency room if they begin showing symptoms of breathing problems.
“Definitely if they’re wheezing, if they’re coughing to the point of choking. If they’re having a hard time breathing or if their nose is breathing like a bull, it’s going in and out, or if they’re retracting their muscles, breathing in their stomach and they’re having a hard time breathing, definitely bring them in,” said Dr. Dawn Belardinelli M.D., from Kaiser Permanente.
Experts say the best precaution if you are in fire area, is to keep children, elderly relatives, or people with problems, such as asthma, indoors until the smoke clears.
On Monday afternoon the Air Quality Management District did issue a smoke advisory directed mainly at residents living near the active wildfires in Napa and Fairfield. If the air quality in the Bay Area gets worse, they could issue a general air quality warning, but the hope is that on-shore winds will help clear the smoke before that becomes necessary.
Air quality officials told us their hope right now is that on-shore winds will thin the smoke from the larger Napa Fire, and drive it to the east of us. However, they’ll continue to monitor the particle levels, and issue a warning if the situation changes.
Send us your photos
If you have pictures of this fire or any other fire burning in the Bay Area, we want to hear from you. Send them to photos@kgo-tv.com and we’ll feature them on-air and online.
MORE: ABC7’s Bay Area wildfire resource guide and safety tips http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/.
MAP: Google Reference Map of California Fires
(From the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services).

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Hospitals and Physicians

When someone relocates they often seek information about physicians, specialists, hospitals and other types of health care, such as extended care. Is there a resource in Fremont for health care information?

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Help, I need a Doctor

Fremont, California has a hospital. Fremont has many medical professionals operating in a variety of specialties. Fundamental healthcare begins with an individual or family?s access to a general physician, call it a family doctor or for children, a Pediatrician and for women a Gynecologist. Certainly, for people like me, a good therapist; better yet, a Psychiatrist! But why is it that someone in Fremont, California cannot locate a physician that will take new patients?
CityBlog Fremont, was struck by the frustration that was apparent in Susie Pena’s (a Fremont, California resident) post on May 9, 2007, which read as follows:
I have been here 1 year this June and have yet to find a doctor that will accept new patients. I am very discouraged that there is no avenue for new residents to find out who is available without a lot of labor intensive efforts.
Does Fremont have a physician association or, does the hospital know of new physicians coming into Fremont that are looking for new patients? It would behoove all communities to have some centralized service that maintains a list of physicians who can accept patients as either “new” or on a rotating basis until the new resident can establish regular healthcare.

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