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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Two events in Upper Lake will celebrate October as “National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”
Both will feature Cleavage Creek Wines, whose owner, Budge Brown, donates ten percent of all wine sales to breast cancer research.
The Blue Wing Saloon Restaurant is hosting the first event, a special winemaker dinner this Saturday evening, Oct. 2.
Budge Brown will be there along with several of the ladies featured on the labels of his wines.
Patrons that evening will be treated to an optional three course dinner designed to pair well with featured Cleavage Creek wines.
The restaurant will donate a further 10 percent of all bottle sales that evening.
The second event, also featuring Budge Brown and survivor models, will be held across Main Street at the Lake County Wine Studio from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, October 15.
Owner Susan Feiler will pour Cleavage Creek wines and serve a selection of appetizers paired to those wines. Photos by Eden Manus are on the walls in October and music by Majide will be in the background. Of the $15 admission price, Susan will donate one third to breast cancer research.
Budge Brown, also owner of Tulip Hill Wines in Nice, enjoyed 48 years of marriage with his wife Arlene.
When she lost her battle with breast cancer in 2005, he was determined to do whatever he could to help find a cure.
Brown purchased the Cleavage Creek wine label and released his first vintage of wines in 2007. A winery and tasting room are now under construction in Pope Valley, just east of Napa.
The Cleavage Creek look is distinctive and significant. The label on each bottle features the image of an actual breast cancer survivor whose story is told on the Cleavage Creek Web site.
“Putting a face on this disease and telling the stories of those who are dealing with it personalizes this and hopefully inspires everyone to take on the fight,” offers Brown.
Ten percent of the gross dollar amount of all wine sales is donated to cutting edge research to fight breast cancer. To date, Cleavage Creek and Budge Brown have donated over $72,000 to breast cancer causes.
“We had a great time hosting Budge and the ladies last October,” commented Blue Wing owner Bernie Butcher, “and we hope people will come by this Saturday, enjoy excellent food and wines – and help us make a small contribution to the fight against breast cancer.”
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Contact the Blue Wing Saloon, 707-275-2233, or the Lake County Wine Studio, 707-275-8030, for more information.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. – St. Helena Hospital Clearlake’s new pulmonary rehab had a ribbon cutting and open house on Sept. 16 in the Hilltop Professional Building on Lakeshore Drive in Clearlake.
Pictured above from left to right are Mark Borghesani, Kelseyville Lumber; Joey Luiz, Shannon Ridge Winery; Jennifer Swensen, vice president of operations; Donna Perry, secretary of Pulmonary Rehab; Kacie Carroll, director of Emergency Department; Joan Rogers, director of Clinical Services; Dr. John Hodgkin; Kevin Cole, director of Pulmonary Services; and Nancy Perrin, Pulmonary Rehab coordinator. Courtesy photo.
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These provisions seek to end insurance company abuses, and put consumers and their doctors back in control of their health care.
“When I voted for this health care legislation, it was to make sure that all Americans had access to quality affordable health care,” said Congressman Thompson.
As of Thursday, young Californians will be able to stay on their parents’ insurance until their 26th birthday, which Thompson said is very important, because young people are the biggest group of uninsured Americans.
Also, people will no longer be subject to lifetime caps on what health insurance will pay, or risk losing their coverage when they get sick, he said. “This will also make a big difference, because over 60 percent of people who declared bankruptcy in 2007 did so because of medical costs.”
As of Thursday all privately-insured Americans will have the following protections:
Health coverage cannot be arbitrarily canceled if you become sick.
Children cannot be denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
Children up to age 26 can stay on their parents’ health plan.
Health insurance giants cannot put a lifetime limit on health coverage.
Beginning Thursday, consumers purchasing new plans will have the following additional protections:
Preventive services will be available without deductible or co-payments.
Patients have the right to both an internal and external appeal of insurers’ coverage decisions.
Patients have the right to access out-of-network emergency room care at in-network cost-sharing rates.
Thompson also sent a letter to the California Insurance Commissioner Thursday, asking him to look into ways to recoup money for insurance clients who may have been overcharged.
In North Carolina, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin was able to return nearly $156 million to more than 215,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield policyholders. That’s equivalent to more than 1.5 months of premiums.
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