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"This is crazy...this is crazy," she says of the time. "There wasn't anybody out there that you could go to that you could sit down with and say, 'I don't want a whole bunch of pamphlets and whole bunch of information. I just want someone to explain this to me in simple words.'"
"Barb Shumeley (current board president of the World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation) was on a committee to gather opinions from the people of the province of Manitoba, from all walks of life -- breast cancer survivors, husbands, daughters, aunts, doctors -- anybody who had been touched by breast cancer in their life," says [Diane Frost]. "We all gave our input at the meetings and from that, working with CancerCare Manitoba, the Breast Cancer Centre of Hope came about.""I had thought of a cookbook before. And I had thought of it because there's so many women with breast cancer, and I had dealt with these women all the time," she says. "So I put out a little note in the Hope centre newsletter that went out to all the women in Manitoba who had received a diagnosis of breast cancer, asking them to send in recipes for this cookbook."See the full content of this document
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Hungry for Hope
Popular fundraising cookbook features recipes from breast cancer survivors
By Wendy BurkeWINNIPEGGER Diane Frost had a great idea. She wanted to give financial support for programming at the Breast Cancer Centre of Hope, for women who had been touched by breast cancer.She figured a cookbook would be a good fundraiser, but it needed the right name."I was sitting one day trying to figure out what the name of this cookbook would be," says Frost. ...See the full content of this document
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