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Put a cap on a great Angels experience
http://www.ocregister.com/sports/cap-299267-shively-fabiani.html
“If I get just one cap,” Christine Fabiani Shively said between knots, needles, stitches and skeins of yarn, “it will be a success.” Fabiani Shively, the Angels’ 2009 People magazine All-Star and the founder of the Newport Beach-based Knots of Love charity, is making a public appeal for handmade knitted and crocheted caps for cancer patients to wear during chemotherapy.
Christine Fabiani Shively (with Angels All-Star Torii Hunter, left, and former Angel and Hall of Famer Rod Carew, right, at the 2010 All Star Game in Anaheim) was the 2009 People magazine All-Star and is the founder of the Newport Beach-based Knots of Love charity. Knots of Love and the Angels have partnered for a Knit Cap Drive before Saturday’s Angels game to collect handmade knitted and crocheted caps for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
She’s coming to Angel Stadium on Saturday at 4 p.m., two hours before that night’s Angels game against the Cleveland Indians. The Angels are backing her “Knit Cap Drive,” allowing her and Knots of Love volunteers to set up a tent and a table before the game and through the second inning under the giant red metal cap outside Gate 3.
“Maybe someone will have heard about the drive and remembered to bring a cap,” said the fast-talking woman who is as warm and cozy and springing with life as a hank of yarn. “Or maybe they’ll grab a brochure, make a donation or get a starter kits and want to make a cap.”
The caps don’t have to be perfect. “There’s a lid for every pot,” said Fabiani Shively, 51, of Balboa Island.
The only requirement: The caps must be made of approved yarns — Caron Simply Soft, Lion Cotton Ease or Buttercup-brand yarns – because chemo patients have highly sensitive scalps.
There is nothing idle about Fabiani Shively, who is trying everything to help more patients to 326 cancer centers, hospitals and oncology offices across North America and share 5,000 caps with military veterans across America by November 11, 2011 (11/11/11).
She’s going everywhere, zooming around in her red Mini Cooper that is frequently overloaded with Knots of Love bags, her ongoing projects, starter kits, extra crochet hooks, patterns and skeins of approved yarns in all colors.
She has teamed with five group homes – two sober living centers, a boys’ lockdown facility in Orange and drug- and eating disorder rehabilitation centers — to teach people how to crochet, hoping they will one day make a cap they can donate.
Fabiani Shively tells them how Knots of Love started 81,000 donated caps ago in 2007 with stitch and a story from a friend, a cancer survivor. That day Fabiani Shively learned about chemotherapy, how patients lose their hair, how they shiver in cold treatment rooms and how something as simple as a soft, warm cap can bring comfort.
There are so few comforts fighting cancer. She shows strangers how their idle hands can lead to smiles.
“A cancer patient is out there waiting for your cap,” Fabiani Shively told the women at the Balboa Horizons addiction recovery center.
For more information on how to help, visit the Angels blog item about Knit Cap Drive or go to www.knotsoflove.org.
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OC METRO MAGAZINE’S
20 WOMEN TO WATCH
OC Metro’s annual list profiling women who are impacting Orange County’s business community.
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Story: http://www.ocmetro.com/t-CoverStory20Women17ChristineShively.aspx
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Owner Of Madison Salon Completes First Ironman Triathlon And Raises Over $10,000 For Charity
Knots of Love Founder Receives Check from Louis Orozco
Newport Beach, CA, December 2009. Contestants were given the opportunity to raise money for a charity of their choice as part of their admission. Orozco chose as his charity Knots of Love, a Newport Beach-based 501(3)c founded by Christine Fabiani Shively. Louis Orozco, owner of Madison Salon in Newport Beach, competed in and completed his first Ironman triathlon.
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Patients at Local Cancer Treatment Centers to Benefit from Ironman Challenge
Chemo caps will be donated to centers by national charity
Newport Beach, CA, November 18, 2009 – A successful Newport Beach, CA, business owner, Louis Orozco, is raising money to ultimately provide chemo caps for cancer patients as part of his admission into the Ironman Challenge this month.
Orozco is the owner of Madison Salon in Newport Beach, CA, and has made a name for himself in the hair styling industry. Trained in Italy, France and the United States, Orozco has styled commercials for Victoria’s Secret, print campaigns for Prada and has worked with runway models for numerous runway shows in New York and Los Angeles. Before opening his own salon, Orozco worked for Brumble & Brumble and Jean Louis David. He is a frequent instructor at national seminars and styling universities.
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