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Richard & Annette Bloch Family Foundation

Richard & Annette Bloch Family Foundation

Successor to the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation

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Category: Survivors Parks

Posted on July 10, 2009June 20, 2011

Visit to Jacksonville Florida Park

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”

Posted on June 19, 2009May 20, 2013

Park News from Vangie

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”

Posted on February 17, 2009June 29, 2011

2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour

Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks 2008

Here’s a tour in photos of many of the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks. Continue reading “2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour”

Posted on February 13, 2009May 23, 2013

Cancer Survivors Park

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”

Posted on February 5, 2009July 3, 2013

Ottawa Ontario Cancer Survivor Park Video

Video tour of the Ottawa, Ontario Cancer Survivor’s Park: Continue reading “Ottawa Ontario Cancer Survivor Park Video”

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