Richard & Annette Bloch Family Foundation
Successor to the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation
My wife Polly and I visited the Cancer Survivors Park in Jacksonville, FL on the day before my last of 39 radiation treatments at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute. The park is on the route we took to the treatment center so we drove by it each day on the way to treatment. Continue reading “Visit to Jacksonville Florida Park”
Congratulations to our wonderful Kansas City park design team!
The recently renovated Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park, located at Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, was recently awarded a Merit Award for Design (Built) by the Central States Region of the American Society of Landscape Architects Continue reading “Park News from Vangie”
Here’s a tour in photos of many of the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks. Continue reading “2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour”
We believe that the second greatest correctable cause of cancer mortality (smoking being #1) is relating death and cancer. Many have been brought up to believe that a diagnosis of cancer means automatic death. Some believe that treatments are worse than death. When they are diagnosed, they give up and do not try to fight. Continue reading “Cancer Survivors Park”
Video tour of the Ottawa, Ontario Cancer Survivor’s Park: