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December 30, 2013Help young adults find peace and happiness this year
With 2013 coming to an end, we hope the holiday season was everything you could wish for and you are excited about everything to come in the new year. We are excited about having an opportunity to help even more of the 7,000 young adults who will be diagnosed with cancer this year.
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December 23, 2013
Happy Holidays from your friends at YACC!
We hope you enjoy the next two weeks with your loved ones as we will with ours, and we look forward to hitting the ground running in the new year!
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2014 YACC Calendar
Order now! Order your 2014 YACC calendar before December 25, 2013 and support young adults dealing with cancer in Canada!
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After being through the worst, each day is the best
When people come face to face with the reality of cancer, it almost always makes them appreciate everything in day-to-day life just a little bit more. For Colin Anderson, he realized it was the little things he was never going to look at quite the same way again after being diagnosed with germinoma.
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December 20, 2013
Heather is taking back her Christmas spirit
Heather was diagnosed with cervical cancer a week before Christmas in 2008. This year, she’s making an effort to celebrate December instead of letting that day control her.
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December 19, 2013
Heather was diagnosed with cancer five years ago today
Five years ago today, Heather was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 27-years-old. Heather was a new mom–her daughter was four-and-a-half-months old. Heather spent her 28th birthday touring the Saskatoon Cancer Centre.
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Keep on track with YACC!
We are pumped to offer a 2014 YACC calendar that you can hang on your very own wall! Each month features some of our amazing survivors, and we have included all our program dates so you can make sure to plan around Retreat Yourself, Retreat Yourself Adventure, and the Survivor Conference.
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December 18, 2013
Here for the holidays
It has been 15 years since Geoff’s first holiday season with cancer, and we wanted to share the moment with you via this blog post originally posted in December 2009.
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December 16, 2013
Localife Calgary: What happens when you mix a zoo, some lights, and Localife?
Our latest event was another fun one, we went to the Calgary Zoo for the holiday zoolights. We had a great time wandering the zoo checking out all the fun lights and displays the zoo put on.
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December 12, 2013
Interested in leading Localife Edmonton?
Ashley Rose has decided to step down from her post as one half of the Localife Edmonton team, and since each city has two leaders, we are looking for someone to pair up with Dan Nielsen to plan fun, activity-based social outings in the Edmonton area.
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December 07, 2013
Thank you to our Big Cancer Hook-up partners!
As we continue to come down from the high that was the first ever Big Cancer Hook-up we want to send a huge shout out to our local partners!
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December 06, 2013
Give young adult cancer survivors a "passion for life" this holiday season
This year, many young adults like Becky will have wishes on their lists that they would not have imagined. Becky was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2002 when she was 17-years-old. She had a lot of love and support from her family and friends, but she still struggled with fatigue, loneliness, and a fear of the unknown.
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