F.Y.I.

F.Y.I.

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   The Ann Arbor Jaycees Foundation and the U-M Athletic Department will be bringing the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt to Ann Arbor in early February, 1997.

   Preliminary approval has been granted by the NAMES Project Foundation, head-quartered in San Francisco, to display over 1,500 panels, sewn together in 12' x 12' sections of eight panels each. The display will be the third largest ever in Michigan and one of the largest in the nation for the coming year. The panels displayed will represent those people in our cities, towns and neighborhoods who have died from AIDS. Proceeds from the display will go to the HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC) in Ypsilanü.

   HARC is the only organization in our area, who, for over ten years, has provided HlV related services through compassionate, direct care, prevention and outreach activities. Their services reach Washtenaw, Lenawee, Livingston and Jackson Counties.

   The host committee will be conducting fundraising and promotional events over the next nine months to raise the funds needed to bring the display to Ann Arbor and to benefit HARC in providing HIV/AIDS related services to our community. "Quilting bees," beginning this fall, will be organized to help individuals or organizations créate panels for loved ones lost to AIDS.

   If you or your organization or business would like ot know how you can become involved with sponsoring, promoting or staffing the display, or need any additional information, contact the Ann Arbor Jaycees at (313) 913-9629 or e-mail JCQuilt97@aol.com.

COMPUTERS CUBA BOUND

   Pastors for Peace reports ihat the 94-day "Fast for Life" is concluding with a series of stunning victories: (1) Four hundred medical computers, seized by the United S tales government in San Diego, were released on May 24 to representatives of the United Metluxlist Church. (2) Additional computers seized at the Canadian border were released on June 14. (3) At a May 2 press conference, Congressman Charles Rangel commended the Fast for Life for the formation of an historic coalition of Representatives, religious leaders, moderate Cuban-Americans, health-care leaders, unionists and grassroots activists that will modify, or possibly end, the embargo of Cuba during the next administration.

   The fasters - Rev. Lucius Walker, Lisa Valanti, Jim Clifford, Brian Rohatyn and Seya Sangariare well on the road to full recovery.

   The computers will form part of an on-line medical information system called INFOMED that will connect every hospital and clinic on the island. INFOMED is supported by the United Nations and the Pan American Health Organization.