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Monday, May 20, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘Vicki Balint’

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Piya Jacob, Desert View Learning Center, Phoenix, Arizona

In 23 years of publishing—this issue makes 270 actual magazines—I never once mentioned by name the elementary school my own two sons attended. I wrote plenty of stories about the teachers and the community that enveloped my sons in love and learning during their most impressionable years. But I was always hyper-conscious about not using [...]

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Everybody dance now!

It was staff multimedia journalist Vicki Balint’s idea, not mine. But I promised to be a good sport. We were at The Salvation Army day camp in Chandler to interview Kendall Glover, the 11-year-old hometown dance sensation who placed second in the finals of a national competition for the CBS program “Live to Dance.” My [...]

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Sparks will be flying at dance fundraiser

Phoenix Children’s Hospital broke the news last week that hometown celebrity and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks will be the featured performer at the FOX 10 Dance Day fundraiser on Saturday, July 30. When I heard the news, I decided it was time to unleash some sparks of my own. I’ve spent some time with [...]

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A celebration of cancer survivors

Sometimes a big cake isn’t about birthdays or graduations or weddings. Sometimes it’s about surviving — and celebrating life. Sometimes your best friend joins you for an arts and crafts project. You have so much fun you almost forget that you are stringing Beads of Courage. But you never forget that your friend stood by [...]

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Of hoopla, red ribbons, and hope

Sure, there was hoopla…but it was a big day for everyone who understands what research, a new facility, and a crew of caring professionals can mean to some very brave kids.

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A celebration at Phoenix Children's Hospital

As we approached the table where pediatrician and newly minted author Randy Christensen, M.D. was autographing copies of his book, we joked about being his “groupies.” The book-signing event in the airy, natural light-filled lobby at the new patient tower at Phoenix Children’s Hospital was the second event in the past three weeks that multimedia [...]

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Everything possible to minimize a child's pain

Tommy Buisman of Gilbert wasn’t expecting to be in the hospital that day. It was fall break, after all, and  and he should have been out doing something fun. But 12-year-old Tommy has diabetes. And sometimes, despite everyone’s determined efforts to keep it under control, it gets the better of him. We met Tommy and [...]

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Getting an earful

Nate Page, M.D., is one of the Valley’s newest otolaryngologists, which means he specializes in the diagnosis and management of all diseases of the ears, nose, throat and sinuses. That makes him an expert on the subject of ear infections, which is why multimedia journalist Vicki Balint and I were in his office yesterday at [...]

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August is immunization awareness month

The outcome from opting out of vaccines is tragic. According to the AAP, six infants in California died from pertussis this year. Recent outbreaks of Hib meningitis in Minnesota and measles around San Diego have been reported.

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