Wellness Community celebrates National Cancer Survivors Day

SPREADING GOOD CHEER-Mr. Blue makes a flower hat out of balloons for Linda Kaplan, a cancer patient, during the 16th annual National Cancer Survivors Day picnic on the lawn at the Wellness Community on Hampshire Road Saturday. At the table with Linda is her husband, Lloyd, son Brett and daughter Jessica.

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The Wellness Community hosted the local edition of the fourteenth annual National Cancer Survivor's Day Saturday on the lawn of its Hampshire Road offices Saturday afternoon. The day is the world's largest cancer survivor event and attracts cancer survivors and their families and friends. It's celebrated in more than 700 communities across the nation.

The Wellness Community is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to help people with cancer and their loved ones with their health and mental well being during times of crisis by providing free professional programs of emotional support and education in dealing with the ramification of contracting cancer.