Chilliwack – PCCN
Contact: Dale Erikson (Chairman)
T. 604-824-5506
C. 604-819-5775
When: The 1st Thursday of each month, except January, July and August
Time: 7:30pm
Where: Prostate Health Information and Awareness, 5725 Monte Sina Place, Chilliwack

January

Visit us at the Chilliwack Home and Leisure show to be held at Heritage Park in Chilliwack on  Jan 27, 28 and 29, 2012.

February

The next meeting will be held on Feb 2^nd, 2012 and the speaker will be RN Nelly Kay from the Continence and Outpatient Bladder clinic at the Abbotsford Regional Hospital. Her presentation will be regarding Pelvic floor rehabilitation to reduce or eliminate incontinence. It will be followed by a question and answer session and an opportunity to visit with other members of the group.

December
On December 6, 2011, Mark Collins and Paul Gumprich of the Chilliwack Firefighters Charitable Society along with the Voodoo Dollz Roller Derby girls made a presentation of $1680 to Dale Erikson, Chairman of Team PCCN Chilliwack, the local Prostate Cancer Support group, for money raised in the Movember Campaign. The campaign gets men to grow moustaches to raise awareness of the disease. Canada came in first place, raising over $38,000,000 and worldwide, there was over $108,000,000 raised!

One out of 6 Canadian men will get Prostate Cancer in their life time, a rate more common that Breast Cancer in Women. However, men need to realize that with early detection it is very curable. Men should start getting regular DRE and PSA tests annually after 50, (after 40, if you have a history of the disease in your family, or are African American). PCCN Chilliwack holds their regular monthly meeting on the first Thursday of the month, (except January, July and August), at the Mt Cheam Lions Club Hall at 45580 Spadina Ave, Chilliwack. For more information, call Dale Erikson 604-824-5506.

Movember
Sean Auguste, co-founder and representative of Prostate Cancer Canada Network’s Chilliwack branch, speaks with Sardis secondary’s Humanitarian Club at the school on Thursday. The club donated $146.90 to Movember, a moustache-growing event to raise money for prostate cancer research throughout the month of November. Auguste is a prostate cancer survivor and spoke with the students about the disease and the history of the local branch. The Chilliwack branch of PCCN meets on the first Thursday of the month at the Lions Club Hall (45580 Spadina Ave.) at 7:30 p.m.
JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS