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World AIDS Day at Bixby Park
World AIDS Day fell on Thursday, December 1st for 2011. The worldwide observance was held this year at Bixby Park to a small crowd of 75 people. The event was hosted by the Los Angeles Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and had fun educational HIV video clips, a performance by the South Coast Chorale, many activities and even included a twist on the lighting of the usual candlelight procession with a “Healthy Wishes”
luminaries along the Broadway Av corridor to honor of someone to live a happy, healthy and prosperous full life. Some parents and grandparents even brought their kids to observe a teachable moment.
Surprisingly, two homeless HIV+ individuals new to Long Beach happened upon the World
AIDS Day event. They were immediately connected to many available resources and
services within Long Beach to assist them with their well-
AIDS Walk Long Beach is June 2, 2012
We Need Pre-
AIDS Walk Long Beach is coming June 2nd, but we need event planning staff volunteers today. It takes many volunteers in the months and weeks prior to the Walk to prepare the event with logistics, supplies, coordination and communication.
It is also a great way to learn a new skill for your career, such as industrial buying, vendor negotiations, contract review and logistics.
But the Walk simply can’t happen without the pre-
er. You’ll be glad you did!
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Shooting for Less than Zero
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy released in July 2010 has called for reducing new HIV infections by 25 percent over five years. While we have seen this in South Africa and we applaud the CDC stance the track record in the United States has been abismal.
Nearly ten years ago the call was for a 10% reduction by 2010 by UNAIDS and
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In Memorium: Ran Michels
For the last few years Ran Michels volunteered with the Long Beach AIDS Foundation’s AIDS Walk Long Beach event as the Registration Team Leader. He came to us first as a team captain through Starbucks Coffee offering to coordinate store participation in the annual AIDS Walk Long Beach event. Finding it difficult to get his corporate teams to ramp up their community
participation he got to know the inner workings of the Walk from the many meetings with the volunteer staff.
Ran ended up joining the volunteer staff after leaving Starbucks and acted as the
Team Leader for the Registration Check-
Ran had a lot of energy and ideas. He was a rabid Disneyland fan and would often talk about music and the 1980’s. He would often talk about his adventures with his partner of many years, Kenny Davis while working on the plans of each year’s Walk event.
Preparation of the Registration process for the participants became more effortless each year with the hard work Ran and his team did in the preparation for the Walk. He would work many long hours. His efforts always showed.
After the 2011 Walk, Ran suffered tongue cancer and lost part of his tongue but battled back. Then recently Ran fell ill to another form of cancer in which he could not muster the fight with his HIV and died the third week of March. We all miss him dearly and extended our heartfelt
heartfelt sympathies to his surviving partner and family.
There have been several losses at the Foundation this year of friends, family and volunteers from complications and HIV. Our hearts have weighed very heavily with these losses beginning in June. It also strengthens our commitment to honor our community by ensuring that we work hard to bring an end to new HIV infections in Long Beach. We have dedicated the Foundation’s fundraising page for AIDS Walk Long Beach to the memory of Ran.
