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New York
EPA Regional Offices
Region 2 - NJ, NY, PR, VI
www.epa.gov/region2
Contact: Ameesha Mehta-Sampath Mehta-Sampath.Ameesha@
epa.gov
(212) 637-4006
EPA Asthma Program Contact List - National Organizations and EPA Regional Offices
(listed in date order)
| Event: | Open Airway Coloring Contest |
| Date: | 5/1/2008 |
| Location: | Stay Healthy Center, Oakdale Mall Johnson City, NY 13790 |
| Description: | “You Can Control Your Asthma" is the theme for this years contest. Using a child’s inspiration they are asked to do a crayon drawing showing what that means to them. Grand Prize is a Wii. |
| Contact: | Asthma Coalition of the Southern Tier (ACOST) 33-57 Harrison Street, Stay Healthy Center, UHS Johnson City, NY 13790 Phone: 607-763-6055 Email: Judy_Masciarelli@uhs.org |
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| Event: | Idle-free NYC |
| Date: | 5/6/2008 |
| Time: | All day |
| Location: | City Streets, Citywide – All 5 boroughs New York City, NY Website: www.idle-free.info  |
| Description: | A campaign to raise awareness in schools, unions, businesses, and the general public about idling impacts, costs and existing anti-idling laws. |
| Contact: | Rebecca Kalin, Asthma Free School Zone 131 Avenue B, 1st Fl, New York, NY 10009 Phone: 212-533-6615 Fax: 212-460-9420 Email: rk@afsz.org |
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| Event: | World Asthma Day at CHAM |
| Date: | 5/6/2008 |
| Time: | 1 pm – 5 pm |
| Location: | Children's Hospital at Montefiore 3415 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467 |
| Description: | Talk with a pharmacist about your asthma medications. Find out what you can do in your home to improve asthma. Get help to quit smoking. Get Asthma education materials that include calendars, games and more. Get the information you need to feel better and stay well. |
| Contact: | Family Learning Place, Children's Hospital at Montefiore 3415 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467 Phone: 718-741-2357 Email: cjones@montefiore.org |
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| Event: | Asthma and Allergy Awareness Day at Shea Stadium |
| Date: | 5/11/2008 |
| Time: | 1:10 pm |
| Location: | Shea Stadium Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, NY Website: www.aafa.org |
| Description: | Bring your mother, your sister, your grandmother, and all of your friends and family members to enjoy a day of baseball as the New York Mets
take on the Cincinnati Reds! The Mets organization has officially named Sunday, May 11, 2008, Asthma and Allergy Awareness Day at Shea, and many special activities honoring
asthma and allergy sufferers will take place. Tickets are only $10, a portion of which goes directly to AAFA. You can purchase your tickets online at www.mets.com/groups and enter the Sign-In ID: ASTHMA and
Password: METS. Once you are logged in, you can click on the date of the game (May 11) and follow the instructions on the site. The first 25,000 female fans in attendance
will receive a pink Mother’s Day cap, and all fans purchasing tickets through the AAFA group will receive a commemorative Shea Stadium lapel pin. |
| Contact: | Jessica Petro, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America 1233 20th Street NW, Suite 402, Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-466-7643 ext. 231 Fax: 202-466-8940 Email: jessica@aafa.org |
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| Event: | Robbie's Walk |
| Date: | 5/17/2008 |
| Time: | 8:00 am |
| Location: | Long Beach Boardwalk Long Beach, NY 11561 Website: www.robertdgausefoundation.org |
| Description: | Asthma walk to bring the community together to stomp out asthma. |
| Contact: | Janice Gause, Robert Gause, or Leah Cruse, The Robert D. Gause Foundation Inc. P.O. Box 481834, Charlotte, NC 28269 Phone: 516-960-8826, 516-860-3996, 516-351-2898 Fax: 704-631-7944 Email: robertdgausefoundation@yahoo.org |
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| Event: | World Asthma Day Health Forum |
| Date: | 5/21/2008 |
| Time: | 10 am – 1:30pm |
| Location: | Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership (NMPP) 127 West 127 Street- 4th. Floor, New York, NY 10027 |
| Description: | Asthma Health Forum: Latest information about asthma, medications, your rights as a tenant, health care access, etc. |
| Contact: | Gloria Thomas, Northern Manhattan Asthma Basics for Children (ABC) Initiative Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University New York, NY 10032 Phone: 212-304-6521 Fax: 212-544-1953 Email: gb20@columbia.edu |
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