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August 29-30, 2012
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Artful giving concert nets funds
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Randall Children’s Hospital benefits from generous donations
By PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP
A day of celebration at the estate of
Junki and Linda Yoshida also turned out
to be a notable success in the battle
against children’s cancer.
For the third year in a row, the Yoshidas
hosted an “Artful Giving Blanket Concert”
and fundraiser on their Troutdale property
in late July.
This year, the concert grossed $150,000
from generous donors and 1,200 participants.
As a result, the Soulful Giving Foundation
will write checks from the net proceeds to
benefit Randall Children’s Hospital cancer
center at Legacy Emanuel and Providence
Cancer Research.
Junki Yoshida, chief executive officer of
the successful Yoshida Group and creator of
the popular Yoshida sauce and other food
products, and his wife, Linda, have seen loved
ones succumb to the ravages of cancer. This
motivated them to launch the Soulful Giving
Foundation and the annual blanket concert.
Junki Yoshida sees the event as unique in
Oregon, because no one involved is getting
paid, and because it has generated high-level
support from corporations and public offi-
cials. This year, the honorary chairmen and
women for the event included Gov. John
Kitzhaber, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, U.S. Sen.
Jeff Merkley, Oregon Secretary of State Kate
Brown, state Treasurer Ted Wheeler, Mult-
nomah County Chair Jeff Cogen, Metro
Council President Tom Hughes and Mult-
nomah County Sheriff Daniel Stanton.
Kitzhaber, Merkley and Brown were on
hand for the concert’s opening ceremony.
Kitzhaber read a proclamation declaring the
date —July 28 — as Children’s Cancer Day in
Oregon.
The musical lineup for the day — Norman
Sylvester Band, Quarterflash, 5 Guys Named
Moe and NWWomen Rhythm & Blues — in-
cluded musicians whose lives have been af-
fected by cancer. Food was provided by some
of Portland’s finest restaurants.
Concert organizers —Linda Yoshida, Judi
Swift, Michelle Guthrie, Madi Deotsch, Anne
Foster, Angela Fox and Staci Sigala — are all
too familiar with the tragedy that cancer
brings to many people’s lives. Several of them
have lost loved ones to various forms cancer.
“We have become successful in just two
years,” Junki Yoshida says of the Artful Giv-
ing event. “We are a strictly volunteer orga-
nization founded by seven women.”
For more information on the foundation,
visit soulfulgiving.org online.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF DEOTSCH PHOTOGRAPHY
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, Gov. John Kitzhaber and
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown
addressed the crowd during the opening
ceremonies for the Artful Giving and Blanket
Concert in July.
The iconic
Oregon band
Quarterflash
helped entertain
the crowd of
approximately
1,200 people.
you start with an effective drug, now you can
begin to think about higher response rates
and durability” when teamed with other ap-
proaches — possibly chemotherapy. “You can
also manage toxicity.”
Druker, now in his fifth year at the Knight
Institute, saw his position as an opportunity
to accomplish more thorough research than
he would be able to accomplish in his own
laboratory. “By building a center where we
have dozens of investigators working on the
problem, we can have a much greater im-
pact,” he said.
The institute has a specific focus on leuke-
mia and breast and prostate cancers. In Druk-
er’s view, however, it is poised to forward re-
search on all types of cancers.
“When you look at our diagnostics labora-
tory, we’ve been doing this molecular profil-
ing of tumors for over four years,” Corless
said. “We’re one of the earliest to do that. We
still have some of the most comprehensive of-
ferings of any center in the country.”
How reasonable is it to expect that we’ll be
able to eradicate cancer in the foreseeable
future? Druker feels that we may be within a
century of it, comparing our current status
with cancer to the medical industry’s limited
understanding of infectious diseases in the
early 1900s.
“It took about 50 to 60 years to get vaccina-
tions and antibiotics and many of the preven-
tative strategies to make an impact,” he said.
“I suspect we’ll be able to do quite similar
with cancer in this century.”
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