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COASTAL LIFE
Presence
Leave your cell phone at home when you go to the beach
THE ARTS
The storyteller
Filmmaker Kristen Mico recently spent time at the Sou’Wester
FEATURE
A look back at 1940 Astoria
During the Depression, the WPA published an Oregon guidebook
DINING
Mouth of the Columbia
Merry Time Bar & Grill has an awesome happy hour burger
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Challenge your idea of breast cancer awareness
Metastatic breast cancer patient Laura Snyder shares her
perspective at Astoria Co-op’s Beers to Your Health lecture
ASTORIA — October is Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, and
an upcoming talk sponsored
by Astoria Co-op Grocery
brings the issue into focus
with a different take on the
“pink ribbon” messages you
typically hear.
Speaker Laura Snyder says
there are pervasive myths sur-
rounding breast cancer. With
statistics, Snyder will suggest
much different action plans for
individuals and groups con-
cerned about breast cancer.
Snyder is a 52-year-old
proud mother of two teenag-
ers. She is a former booksell-
er and Astoria school board
member. These days, she is
a full-time metastatic breast
cancer patient. This includes
medical appointments, med-
ication, scans, waiting for
results — the usual for the
estimated 155,000 metastatic
breast cancer patients living in
the U.S. today. Part of it is ed-
ucating herself and others and
advocating for action to chan-
nel public and private money
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make a difference in patients’
lives.
“The goal of this talk is to
change the entire paradigm of
breast cancer awareness in our
community to a new aware-
ness of what is actually needed
to end breast cancer. No one
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before Labor Day. The annual celebration was men-
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Beers to
Your Health
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8
Fort George Lovell Showroom
426 14th St., Astoria
All ages
Free
Submitted photo
Metastatic breast cancer patient Laura Sny-
der wants to debunk myths of breast cancer
awareness at her talk Oct. 8 in Astoria.
dies of early stage breast can-
cer. It is only when it spreads,
or metastasizes beyond the
primary site to bones, the lym-
phatic system and vital organs,
that it becomes a terminal ill-
ness,” Snyder said.
Snyder says awareness has
taken on an iconic tone, when
in fact it does not save lives.
“I would like to debunk
these myths and challenge the
sexualization and commercial-
ization of the breast cancer
cause. I hope that the talk will
give people tools and ideas to
change awareness to action,”
Snyder said.
Snyder’s lecture is Thurs-
day, Oct. 8 at the Fort George
Lovell Showroom. The talk
begins at 7 p.m. and goes to 8
p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. and
food and drinks are available
for purchase from the Tap-
room. There will be time for
questions and answers.
The event is free and open
to all ages. It is part of Asto-
ria Co-op Grocery’s food and
wellness lecture series, Beers
to Your Health, which takes
place every second Thursday
at Fort George.
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