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Free Prostate Screening For Men Offered By PMMC

The Pottstown tests help check for the potential of prostate cancer, a significant cause of cancer-related deaths in men. Advance registration is necessary, though, and appointments are limited.

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Yes, He’s A Caregiver, But Please Don’t Use That Title

Pottsgrove school board member Patti Grimm knows a thing or two about surviving cancer. So does her husband, Kevin, but if offered a choice he’d prefer to avoid the title of being her “caregiver.”

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Hair Salon Donates To Cancer Center

POTTSTOWN PA – The sale of tickets to a luau meal conceived by the co-owner of a local hair salon helped raise $6,510 for a donation presented earlier this month to Pottstown Memorial Regional Cancer Center. Terrie Uba, who operates T & N Hair Saloon, 1220 N. Hanover St., recently presented a check from the [...]

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Mad Hatters Took To Tea Sunday

SANATOGA PA – The hat Betsy Schaeffer wore Sunday afternoon (March 29, 2009) was a chapeau of her own creation: an outlandish green felt stovepipe with floppy brim, dotted with bright red flowers and featuring a three-dimensional lobster. To almost any observer it looked goofy and silly and frivolous. To Schaffer, it looked like a [...]

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KnitOut Raises Thousands For Relay

POTTSTOWN PA – This year’s upcoming Relay For Life against cancer, to be held once again inside Pottsgrove High School stadium during May, got a big leg up in fund-raising over the weekend with the help of 2,000 flying fingers. That’s because about 200 people whose passion is knitting and crocheting gathered Saturday (Jan. 17, [...]

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KnitOut Benefit Returns For 5th Year

POTTSTOWN PA – Knitting vendors Sandi Gill and Sue Suzenski have been making the rounds at local craft shows in recent weeks, selling a variety of hand-made scarves, shawls and throws as colorful holiday gifts. But they’re looking beyond Christmas – actually, beyond the New Year – to the fifth anniversary of an event they [...]

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Cancer Seminar Open To Sanatogans

Lower Pottsgrove residents can learn more about colorectal and prostate cancer during a free educational seminar scheduled by the Montgomery County PA Health Department for Wednesday (Oct. 29, 2008) at 6 p.m. in the third-floor conference room at Pottstown Borough Hall, 100 High St., Pottstown. Cancer symptoms, risk factors, screening guidelines and prevention will be [...]

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