The FACES (Food Allergic Children Education and Support) group in Macomb County will be showing the documentary "I'm Not Nuts: Living With Food Allergies" on November 6th.  Attached please find a flyer with details.

Look for more information regarding a showing in November by COFAF.  That event will be held in Birmingham.

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I recently received the following information from AAFA Michigan:

The Chefs of the Future competition is fast approaching!   This is a unique culinary competition being held in Wixom on Oct. 30 that promises to be entertaining as well as educational.  

The Food Allergy Community should be interested in supporting this historic event and we need your help!   Please, we encourage you to attend and show your support for AAFA and improving food allergy conditions in our community!  

I've attached the event flyer and press release for information.  We have several local celebrity judges and Sherry Margolis from Fox 2 News as our hostess – should be a fun evening…   Hurry!  Limited number of tickets available (order by phone or online.)  See you there!

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You've been busy.  There are now 244 walkers registered who have raised just over $10,000.  Great!!!

We've added some new sponsors:
Allergy & Immunology Associates of Ann Arbor - Gold
Allergy & Asthma Care, PC - M.N. Savliwala, MD - Route Marker
Grosse Pointe Allergy & Asthma Center - Health
UPS - Health
Rock and Melissa Dalton - Honor Someone You Love Message

Registration has opened for the 2008 FAAN Walk for Food Allergy in Milford.  The walk will be on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at Kensington Metropark (Maple Beach*).  Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. and the official Walk starts at 10:00 a.m.  You can pre-register and begin raising funds online at www.foodallergywalk.org.  To date there are 244 Walkers registered online and they've raised approximately $10,000.  We have a goal of $70,000 so we have raised 14% of goal so far.  We'd like to thank the sponsors and in-kind donations we've received to date:

Sponsors
Crayons - Silver
Sciele Pharma, Inc. - Silver
SunGold Foods - Bronze
Enjoy Life Foods - Bronze
Mark G. Frizzo, DDS, PLLC - Health

In-Kind
Jammin DJ's
TNT Inflatables
Skindell Magic
Hiller's Markets
VGs Foods
The Kroger Company

Michigan children with food allergy and/or eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGID) may enter our COFAF Kids 1st Annual Poster and Writing Contest between now and April 30, 2008 when all entries are due.  Based upon age, they may enter into three categories:  Poster, Essay and Poetry.  The winners will be announced during Food Allergy Awareness Week (FAAW) which falls between May 11 and 17 this year.  The prizes (books, DVDs and other fun food allergy related items) awarded in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each age category are funded by a support group grant awarded by the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network.  We hope you'll get involved.

Check out the calendar.  We've added meetings.  On off months, we may plan some Cheat and Eats for an evening out on the town and/or a family outing.  Slated topics for this year include:  Managing Food Allergies in School and Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment).  Please let us know what else you'd like to discuss at a meeting or if you have a speaker to recommend.

COFAF member, A. Cohen, has reported the CAMP KAT (Kids All Together) will be a peanut/tree nut free event.  CAMP KAT which will benefit special needs children from all backgrounds is being hosted by the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit on Sunday, March 2nd.  Please click below for more information.

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