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No. 2 Vol. 10
www.thelivingstonnews.com
October 2016
Billboard Up In Livingston Raises Awareness On Blood Stem Research
By Cheryl Conway here is a huge billboard on the eastbound lane of Mt. Pleasant Ave. in Livingston, right across from Pizzetta. On that billboard, Livingston’s number one agent at Coldwell Banker, Ellen
Gonik, is helping to spread awareness about blood cancer and the growing need for blood stem donors. For those who drive by the bulletin board, stop and take a picture to tweet, post and share the billboard on Instagram or Facebook, through
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the Warter Strong Awareness Campaign. The bulletin board will be up through the end of October. Donations toward the campaign are also being accepted at https://www.giftoflife.org/d c/warter, in an effort to raise funds and awareness toward blood stem research so more cancer victims can receive transplants and beat the disease. All proceeds go the Gift of Life, a national, not-for-profit registry facilitating transplants for patients in the United States and abroad. The campaign is in honor of Dr. Oren Warter, of Livingston, who had a bone marrow transplant in Feb. 2015 after being diagnosed with Acute Myologenous Leukemia (AML) in 2014. Warter, a father of three who worked as an anesthesiologist at Morristown Memorial Hospital, died at the young age of 45 in Aug. 2015 from unrelated complications, adds his wife TES
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Barbara Warter of Livingston. Warter created the Warter Strong donor circle in 2014 to help fundraise to purchase kits for stem cell providers through the Gift of Life. “We needed a bone marrow transplant,” explains Warter, after her husband’s diagnosis. “The only chance to beat it [AML] was through a transplant. INSUR
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Leukemia, it’s in the blood; only way to try it is to give them a brand new blood making system.” Her friends and neighbors helped create Warter Strong through the Gift of Life to help fundraise. They raised nearly $50,000 in their first campaign, which was used to cover the costs to get cells tested and for the kits that cost $60 each to process and enter into the
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registry. “Warter Strong fighting the fight and raising awareness to becoming a stem cell donor,” was their motto. Although her husband died from unrelated complications, Warter Strong lives on and continues to raise awareness and dollars. Warter’s friend, realtor Ellen Gonik, decided she continued on page 6
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