Lady Bowlers to Make Strikes Against Type 1 Diabetes

By Edith Koeller

October 31, 2003

The Sheridan Lake Monday Night Ladies League bowlers are bowling November 17, to raise funds for the Children’s Diabetes Foundation at Denver and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes.

The Children’s Diabetes Foundation was founded in l977 as a non-profit organization to support research in childhood diabetes and to provide the best possible clinical and educational programs for children with the disease. Its mission is to raise funds to support programs at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes where over 4,000 children and young adults currently receive care.

The ladies will accept donations or sponsorships based on their bowling averages or scores. If you wish to donate and have not been contacted by the bowlers, please contact one of the following bowlers or call 719-729-3568 for further information: Carol Shalberg, Barbara Wilson, Theresa Weber, Kathy Specht, Jennifer Weber, Jessie Priddy, Pete Rohlman, Violet Lane, Jenny Lening, Edith Koeller, Dennill Splitter, or Zelpha Woelk The ladies will appreciate your support for this worthy cause.

Did you know that in the US someone is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every hour? That every year close to 200,000 Americans die from diabetes or its complications, or over 92,000 lower limb amputations are performed, or diabetes causes 24,000 new cases of blindness? Nearly 2 million Americans have type 1 diabetes.