MARCH 2018 48 | convenient time. Gray Matters Foundation is always growing, but in a careful manner. I’m still a patient, too. Time management and organizational elements are difficult for me.” Not so much so, however, that the community hasn't taken notice. For her dedication to brain cancer survivors and her work with Gray Matters Foundation, Veres was presented with the 2017 Hon Kachina Volunteer Award. “I want every patient and family that Gray Matters Foundation touches to feel there is someone who cares for them and believes in them,” Veres said. To date, the number of lives she’s touched reaches into the thousands. And that’s what really matters. graymattersfoundation.org Judy Pearson is a journalist, published author, and the founder of A2ndAct.org. Her organization supports and celebrates women survivors of all cancers as they give back to the greater good in their 2nd Acts. Her passion is finding those who have have healed themselves by helping others. A 2ND ACT CONTINUED Lanette Veres at the podium, thanking the audience for her 2017 Hon Kachina Award.

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