St. Jude Hospital Contact: 1-800-567-0636

Local Contact: Ms. Sally Crescioli, Wee Workout

(805) 226-8310

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Parents in our community can help save lives by participating in a Workout Against Cancer to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The event, scheduled for Saturday, January 21, 2006, is sponsored by Wee Workout in Los Osos. Parents are invited to bring children ages three months through five years old to participate in an hour long workout. The wee ones will jump and climb, spin and swing, bounce and roll, and dance and sing. “The impetus for hosting this event came when two-year-old Eliana Nunley, a student at Wee Workout, was diagnosed with cancer in August,” said Sally Crescioli, owner of Wee Workout. “Our goal in holding this event is to help children like Ellie who are battling diseases like cancer, AIDS and sickle cell disease.”

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by the late entertainer, Danny Thomas, and based in Memphis, TN, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fund-raising organization. In 1962 when the hospital opened, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood leukemia, was only survived by four percent of our patients; the current cure rate is now 85%. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org.

The money raised in this event will help to ensure that children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases will have a better chance to live. To participate in this exciting, beneficial program, registration information is available by contacting Wee Workout at 226-8310.