| Meet the Cooking Cardiologist |
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Heart Healthy Cooking Secrets to Avoid FATigue. Live cooking demonstration by
Richard Collins, M.D., the Cooking Cardiologist. Book signing to follow at Barnes and Noble. |
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The Galleria Mall Rochester |
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Thursday, November 9, 2000 from Noon to 1:00 p.m. |
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| Walk & Win Winners Announced! |
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Monday, October 9, 2000 from noon to 1:00 p.m. |
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Galleria Mall 111 South Broadway, Rochester 2nd floor by the CardioVision 2020 Kiosk |
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| CardioVision 2020 Community Celebration |
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Fun for the entire family! There will be 4H clowns, Fred Astaire Dance Studio interactive dancing, a
grilling demonstration, and much more. Register to win a variety of prizes, including tickets to a Minnesota Lynx WNBA preseason game. Free information on nutrition, exercise and kicking the nicotine habit. Free bike trail maps of the Rochester area. Free heart-smart box lunches for the first 1,000 people. |
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Friday, May 12, 2000 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm |
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Enjoy the music of Ameriikan Poijat (Boys of America), a Finnish American Brass Band. |
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12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Hear from Dr. Pekka Puska, who led an effort like CardioVision 2020 that reduced heart disease in North Karelia, Finland by 75%. See what we can do together if we all participate! |
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12:45 pm – 1:00 pm Quit & Win awards will be given, including the top prize of $1,000 to someone who accepted the challenge to stop smoking for at least four weeks. |
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1:00 pm – 1:30 pm More music by Ameriikan Poijat. |
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Open to the general public. Admission is free. |
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Riverside Park at Mayo Civic Center 30 Civic Center Drive SE (Rain location: Mayo Civic Center- Auditorium) |
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Call 507-538-1347. |
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| Dr. Thomas Kottke to Receive Award for CardioVision 2020 |
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The Champions of Health Awards Program is sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to honor those people, organizations, or businesses who have gone the extra mile to make the Rochester community a healthier place to live. Dr. Thomas Kottke, CardioVision 2020's project manager, is one of the first to receive this new award. An Olympic-theme exhibit at the Rochester Athletic Center will be the setting for the awards ceremony. The public is invited to test their Olympic skills in the Olympic Mini-Decathlon, check out an Olympic athlete's diet, and get their blood pressure and body fat checked. The event is free and open to the general public. |
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The awards ceremony takes place: Saturday, January 8, 2000 at 1:00 pm The Olympic-theme fitness and nutrition exhibit hours are: January 8 – 10:00 am to 7:00 pm January 9 – Noon to 6:00 pm Join other CardioVision 2020 supporters on January 8 at 1:00 pm as we congratulate Dr. Kottke on his award – and don't forget to wear your CardioVision 2020 t-shirt! |
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| Kick Butts Symposium at Century High School |
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Kick Butts will train teams of teens and an adult to take the tobacco control message back to their communities. Kick Butts is a program created by the Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition to involve youth in reducing tobacco use by their peers. Teens will learn new skills through Kick Butts activities, address a critical health problem that affects them and their peers, engage in community service, and gain leadership experience while educating the communities about the serious nature of tobacco use and of control issues confronting youth. Teens will gain extensive knowledge about health issues related to tobacco and acquire a range of practical skills to work in their own communities to help change attitudes and behaviors about tobacco use. |
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Training is limited to 100 teens from Olmsted County, Minnesota |
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Saturday, October 30, 1999 from 8:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
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Century High School, Rochester, Minnesota |
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Program registration is $15 per student. To register Contact Carrie Olson, Youth Coordinator at the Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition at (651) 641-1223. Please make checks payable to Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition. |
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| KROC AM/FM Radio Women’s Fall Exposition |
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Visit the CardioVision 2020 booth at the KROC AM/FM Radio Women’s Fall Exposition. Exposition attendees will have the opportunity to meet CarioVision 2020 staff, obtain information about women and heart disease, and agree to meet the Five Personal Goals |
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Saturday, October 23, 1999 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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Exposition attendees |
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Mayo Civic Center Arena, Rochester, Minnesota |
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| IBM, Rochester, Minnesota Cardiovascular Employee Program |
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Visit the CardioVision 2020 booth at the IBM, Rochester, Minnesota Cardiovascular Employee Program. Employees will have the opportunity to meet CarioVision 2020 staff, obtain information about cardiovascular health, and agree to meet the Five Personal Goals. |
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Rochester, IBM employees |
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Monday and Tuesday, October 4-5, 1999 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 6, 1999 from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. |
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IBM Employee Cafeteria |
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| Cardiology: Today and Tomorrow |
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The first live, online cyber session by Mayo Clinic's Division of Cardiovascular Diseases about artherosclerosis that is available to the general public. |
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This is an international educational program for physicians and healthcare professionals. However, the general public is invited to log on and participate in the Q & A segments. The public can benefit from new information about the prevention and treatment of heart disease. |
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Saturday, August 21, 1999 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
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Cardiology: Today and Tomorrow |
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| CardioVision 2020 Kicks Off Its Community Health Initiative |
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Dr. Louis Sullivan
Keynote Speaker Dr. Louis W. Sullivan - President of Morehouse School of Medicine; Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Bush Administration, from 1989 to 1993; and host of Frontiers of Medicine on PBS will be in Rochester on June 30 to kick off CardioVision 2020. A staunch proponent of exercise, good nutrition and kicking tobacco use, Dr. Sullivan will deliver the keynote speech at 12:15 p.m. |
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| Ameriikan Poijat, the Finnish American Brass Band, based in Northfield, Minn. was specifically invited to provide music as well as to recognize Finland’s role in successfully reducing their extremely high mortality rate from coronary heart disease by promoting community-based prevention measures. | |
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