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During the month of May, come support Gray Matters at Tundra Ice Cream by sampling one of the Turtle themed flavors and purchase a paper turtle to freeze out brain tumors and support the Gray Matters mission!

Raffle tickets will be available through the entire month for $5. Enter for your chance to win personal training sessions, restaurant gift certificates and more!  Winners will be selected on May 28^th at the Beach Party!

Join us this Friday, April 30 as we kick off Brain Tumor Awareness Month at Tundra Ice Cream with a Masquerade Party! Wear a costume and get a FREE Ice Cream Sandwich! Best costume winner gets a FREE Ice Cream Cake!

Where: Tundra Ice Cream
20329 North 59th Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85308
(623) 572-8892

www.tundraicecream.com

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When: Friday, April 30  7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Each Friday in May, join Gray Matters and Tundra Ice Cream to support Gray Matters:

May 7^th – BRAIN FREEZE GAME NIGHT – We will be giving out “stress brains” while supplies last.  Bring your “stress brain” back during the week to receive a  discount on your ice cream purchase.

May 14^th – FREEZE BRAIN TUMOR PARTY – Join Gray Matters to freeze out brain tumors and enjoy the turtle themed ice cream flavors!

May 21^st – SCHOOL’S OUT PARTY – Gray Matters will be on hand with temporary tattoos.  Show your turtle tattoo and receive a discount on your ice cream purchase.

May 28^th – BEACH PARTY – Join Gray Matters for special discounts on ice cream and draw winners for the Gray Matters basket raffle.

Also join us Wednesday May 19^th for an Ice Cream Social!

For More Information: Contact Lanette at: 623-205-6446 or Lanette@GrayMattersFoundation.org

A big Thank You to everyone who was able to join us on February 5th! 110 people came out and supported the Gray Matters Foundation and enjoyed David’s wit, humor, candor and passion.  Together we were able to raise over $2,000 to continue our work supporting and empowering brain tumor patients and survivors.  Without all of your support, Gray Matters wouldn’t be able to do any of the things that we do.

If you weren’t able to attend David’s concert, click here to read more about his amazing story and listen to his music.

GrayMatters Benefit Concert

featuring David M Bailey

You are invited to share friendship and fun with my good friend…singer, song writer DAVID M BAILEY!

David is well-known as a 13+ yr survivor of a Glioblastoma brain tumor that was to have killed him in 6 months. His amazing story of hope and survival has and inspired thousands of fans all over the world. Read more about David »

He will be performing a concert for the benefit of The GrayMatters Foundation. The concert is FREE and open to all. Come share a lovely evening of music and friendship learn what the mission of GrayMatters is all about.

Date: Friday, Feburary 5th, 2010.
Time: 7:00 pm
Location:
The Point Hilton Squaw Peak Resort
7677 N. 16th Street
Phoenix AZ 85020
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The event will take place just off of north pointe which faces 16th street.

Please RSVP if you are planning to attend this event:
By phone 623-205-6446
By e-mail Lanette@GrayMattersFoundation.org
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1124 (H.Res. 1124) on May 21, 2008 and officially expressed the sense of the Congress that a National Brain Tumor Awareness Month should be established.
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Lanette Veres, Founder & President of the Gray Matters Foundation, was profiled as part of the “Positively Arizona!” feature of television station KPHO. The show spotlights “Valley Residents Making a Positive Influence” and Lanette’s work to support brain tumor patients is featured. Lanette is shown creating one of her signature gift card envelope – decorated with stickers of course!

See for yourself! Click here and to watch the “Woman Helps Brain Tumor Patients, Survivors” video.

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We are proud to announce that the IRS has granted the Gray Matters Foundation tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, effective November, 2007. Our application was approved after only a short 8-week period and we believe it is because our mission is such an important one to the community and brain tumor patients. All donations to the Foundation will now be tax exempt to the full extent allowed.

How the state of Arizona went soft on polluters and mistreated the victims of the Maryvale cancer cluster.

A high level of industrial compound Trichloroethylene (TCE) is believed to be the cause of a high rate of childhood leukemia deaths in one portion of west Phoenix.

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