BAY AREA CELIAC NEWS Sept 2003

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CELIACS....SEPT 2003

Support group meetings are held in Oakland, Santa Cruz, Sebastopol, Napa

and at Stanford University. R.O.C.K. (Raising Our Celiac Kids) meetings

are in Danville, Palo Alto, and San Francisco. Meeting notices are sent

out monthly announcing upcoming events. You can receive an e-mail or snail

mail notice.

To subscribe, send your name, address, phone number and e-mail address to

your local support group leader or to Martha Deutsch 341 Central Ave., Half

Moon Bay 94019, 650-726-9562, deutschm@.... This list is

confidential and will be used only to keep you informed of local celiac

activities and important celiac concerns the group leaders wish to

broadcast. Even if you do not participate in a group, all of the leaders

are happy to answer your questions and refer you to other resources.

You might be interested to know that there are currently over 600 names on

our list. We welcome your ideas on what kind of support you believe is

needed, what activities you might suggest, and of course any volunteer help

you would like to offer! The group leaders work very hard and are always

looking for others who are interested in making our gluten free lives more

enjoyable.

About expenses: We have decided not to ask for dues this year but have set

aside some of the conference budget to pay for mailing and administrative

costs throughout the year. Because many of you have e-mail, copying costs

and postage are lower that they used to be. We always appreciate your

support for the celiac cause, of course, and if you would like to

contribute either money or your volunteer hours, please contact a group

leader for suggestions. Thanks for your interest and your help!

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NOTES FROM STANFORD CELIAC CONFERENCE 2003

The conference last weekend was a great success with around 400 people

attending. We had a full day of speakers, all local, and lots of food to

keep us alert and ready to learn. We are fortunate to have so many

excellent celiac resources in our Bay Area, including the impressive

research team at the Celiac Sprue Research Foundation. Thanks go to these

people and to all the wonderful volunteers who helped make this day

possible!

Rohlfs maintains a website at Stanford for our Bay Area celiacs and

will be posting meeting information and other news on this site. She has

posted the slides from Dr. Oren Abramson's conference presentation on

Celiac Disease and Diabetes. http://celiacsupport.stanford.edu.

We found two sweaters left at the conference. For return please contact

Rohlfs: kellyr@... or 650-725-4771.

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SANTA CRUZ

The Santa Cruz Celiac Support Group will be meeting on Saturday, Sept. 20

at 11AM in Meeting Room 1 at Dominican Hospital, 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa

Cruz. (Located east of Highway 1 at the Soquel Drive/Avenue exit in Santa

Cruz; Room 1 is located in the main hospital building near the outpatient

entrance.) Joan Wade of Sylvan Border Farms will bring samples of her

delicious gluten-free products to share. We will also have a gluten-free

potluck lunch (bring a list of the ingredients). Gluten free refreshments

will be provided.

For directions and reservations, please contact Pam Newbury: 831-423-6904,

pknewbury@....

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PALO ALTO R.O.C.K.

Afternoon tea and evening BBQ on Saturday, September 20, from 3-7 pm at the

home of Chaitan and Susi Khosla, Address 740 La Para Avenue, Palo Alto,

Phone 650-857-9423. (Directions: We live in Barron Park, between

Arastradero Road and Page Mill. Coming from Page Mill Road turn right onto

El Camino Real going South. From El Camino Real turn right onto Los Robles

Ave., at the corner of Blockbuster Video and Jamba Juice. On Los Robles go

to first STOP sign. Turn right onto La Donna, then the first left turn onto

La Para. We are #738 (blue house) on the right side in the back. Please

park on the street.)

Please RSVP to Fowell-Velez, kfowell00@... or 650-216-6405.

Please bring a dish to share and let know in advance what you are

bringing. We have a few allergies in the group in addition to gluten and

would very much appreciate your understanding when preparing a dish to

bring: there are two families with nut allergies and one with an egg

allergy as well. If you can use an egg replacer and avoid nuts when

baking, that would be great. If not, please label the dish and we will

have those kids avoid the dishes with eggs and nuts. (Kim Czachor asked

that no nut pieces, whole or parts, be used due to her sensitivity, but if

a nut flour is used, her daughter can avoid that food. Please contact her

if you have any more specific questions at czachor1@....)

October Meeting:

We will be meeting at the home of Gus and Becky Pinto in Belmont on

Saturday, October 25th. Directions will follow as well as times and what

to bring. Please mark your calendars!

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OAKLAND

The support group will meet on Saturday, Oct. 11, 10:30AM-12:30PM at 1950

lin Street, Oakland. This is the Kaiser Permanente Corporate

Headquarters, not the hospital. Take BART to 19th street station. By car:

lin Street is parallel to Broadway, one block south. Park in a nearby

surface lot, not at a meter. Please bring a gluten free lunch or brunch

item to share and the recipe or ingredient list. Everyone is invited.

For directions or more information contact Ellen Switkes : 510-655-0215

(evenings/weekends), Ellen.Switkes@...

Future meeting dates for 2003/2004:

11/8, 12/6 (Don Kasarda will come to the Dec meeting, along with Santa)

1/24, 3/6, 4/17, 6/5

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SEBASTOPOL

The next meeting will be Saturday, October 11 from 10AM-12noon, at the

Sebastopol Christian Church, corner of Bodega Ave. (Hwy 12) and Jewell Ave.

The topic will be gluten free crockpot recipes. The President of

Mayacamas will also be there to discuss his products (soup and sauce mixes).

Questions or directions: Leilani 707-829-9105, oceansplash4me@...

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NAPA

The next meeting will be Saturday, October 18, 10AM-1PM at the Queen of

the Valley Hospital, 1000 Trancas Street, Napa. Refreshments will be

served.

Please RSVP: Marie Dell'Isola 707-255-4027

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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA R.O.C.K

Contact Jackie Corley: 415-885-5171,

__Corley@...

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EAST BAY R.O.C.K. (Danville)

Contact Dana Sylvester-Doscher 925-648-3217,

ddoscher11@...

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CELIAC SPRUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION DINNER

Another GF dinner is being planned for October. The tentative date will be

on Saturday, Oct. 25 at a Mexican restaurant in Berkeley. The cost will be

$25 per plate, checks made payable to Celiac Sprue Research Foundation.

More information to follow.

RSVP and contact: Rohlfs, kellyr@... or 650-725-4771

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GLUTEN FREE BAKING CLASS AT WHOLE FOODS, SAN MATEO

The new Whole Foods in San Mateo is offering cooking classes and on October

28 there will be a Gluten Free Baking class. One of our members,

Kardos, requested the class and they agreed! You can sign up for it

on-line:

**Gluten Free Baking For Any Occasion with Taleen**

San Mateo Whole Foods, 1010 Park Place, SM

(west of Hwy101 at Hillsdale Rd. exit )

Oct. 28, 6:30–8:30PM, Cost $22

Menu: Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gluten Free Cranberry Orange Bread

Taleen Kadamian has baked with Randy Galterio of G! Foods, one of the Bay

Area's premier gluten free bakeries. She has been baking gluten free for 7

years and has experience in several Bay Area restaurants.

http://www.wholefoods.com/stores/calendars/SMT.html

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CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ONLINE CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP

It's easy! Join the Celiac Bay Area online support group to find out about

local events and exchange information about local Celiac resources,

gluten-friendly restaurant finds, hints/tips, recipes, product information,

and support. This is a non-commercial online group and all questions and

answers are exchanged only by list members. Expand your celiac horizons

and learn more about the local celiac community. If you would like to

subscribe send an email to subscribe . You

will begin receiving e-mails posted by others who have subscribed and can

send e-mails to the group by addressing them to

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Note to Bay Area Parent Magazine Readers: watch for an article on celiac

disease in the October issue.

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SF Bay Area Celiacs

Martha Deutsch

341 Central Avenue

Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

deutschm@...

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