Helping EVERYONE touched by cancer live healthy and strong, using fitness – physical, nutritional and emotional – as the foundation for every day.
Halloween Party – Jewelry Fundraiser: On Thursday, October 29th so many great folks turned out to benefit 
Surviving Strong. It was a fun event for everyone. The kids were entertained by live music, face painting, games and activities! Meanwhile the grown-up had an opportunity to chat, snack and browse the wonderful jewelry from Premier. 
As the night drew to a close, we could look back on an evening of laughter, smiles and a huge fundraising success for our organization: we raised over $1,000 in cash and merchandise! Thank you all!
A special thank you goes out to our member volunteers without whom the event would not have been such a smashing success – thank you Elaine, Amy and Stacy. Thank you
to our volunteer face-painting artist, Marilyn (who you will be learning about as she is also one AMAZING swim instructor.) Thank you to our volunteer musician, Juli, wh
o with guitar and song managed to entertain so many children at one time!
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NY Metro Danskin Womens Triathlon: On September 12-13, 2009 over a thousand athletes coverged at the Jersey shore for the Danskin triathlon. Surviving Strong had a great showing at the expo - an opportunity to share information about our group, meet amazing cancer survivors, network with potential coaches and fundraise. Many thanks go out to the volunteers that came to man the booth:
- Amy CB: for driving several hours and being such an outgoing spokesperson for our group
- Amy C: for sharing her personal story and being such a strong proponent
- Stacy: who had the great idea to sell pretzels at the expo and took all of the initiative to get them for the event in addition to all of the prepwork with the sale items
- Bob: for also driving several hours and getting the announcer guy to keep plugging our group and our pretzels, drawing extra traffic to our booth
- Deb: for helping make the triathlon charms, and then being such a great
salesperson for the jewelry - Donna: for driving several hours to get there to share her enthusiam for Surviving Strong with a stunning smile
- Elaine: for helping make a lot of the items up for sale, including donating the tote and drawstring bags
- To all the others who offered to volunteer but we were stocked!
- To all the others who stopped by to offer their support!
Danskin Triathlon Finishers: Congratulations go out to all of the participants at the Danskin Women's Triathlon. It was a gorgeous day - perfect for a swim in the bay, bike along the shore and a run through a historic coast guard base. Surviving Strong had a small but impressive team participating and they all did a fantastic job. Danskin also honored the numerous survivors participating in the race, but having a distinct survivors wave. A huge cheers goes out to Surviving Strong founder, Susan, for placing first amongst survivors. Standing next to her on the podium and taking second is three time survivor Sharon. Absolutely amazing and a great show of the stregnth and resolve!