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Four-O'Clock Flowers Around the
World Free Cancer Project

This is a thumbnail picture of a cluster of white four-o'clock - Mirabilis jalapa - flowers blooming under a summer New Orleans sun. Four-o'clock flower seeds are being given away by Kevin P. Donahoe in memory of his father, Jim Donahoe, who passed away from cancer in 1994 without seeing his four-o'clocks bloom once more. Http://www.symbolofhope.com

Providing free four-o'clock flower seeds as a living symbol of hope for
cancer survivors, care givers, health care professionals and gardeners
to plant in gardens across America and around the world since 1994

Upcoming Events in 2009 for the
Four-o'clock Flowers Around the World Free Cancer Project

The Breast Care Center at East Jefferson General Hospital will be distributing four-o'clock flower seeds beginning in April.

April - Leukemia and Lymphoma Yacht Regatta.

April 4 and 5 - City Park Botanical Gardens Spring Garden Show - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

April 18 - Tour de Lis Bike Race to benefit the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. New Orleans Lakefront. 8 a.m.

April 22 - Susan G. Komen Cancer Survivor's Luncheon. Tentative. (Closed event)

April 25 - Art in April in St. Bernard. St. Bernard Court House. 9 a.m.

April - Louisiana Federation of Garden Clubs. TBA.

May 21 - 22 - 23 - Master Gardener's of Louisiana Convention. Airport Hilton in Kenner.

May 23 - 24 - 4th Annual Bayou Boogaloo - Bayou St. John in New Orleans.

June 7 - Cancer Survivor's Day. Mount Olive Lutheran Church. 315 Ridgelake Dr. Metairie.

October - Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in City Park

October 3 - The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Light the Night Against Cancer. Metairie.
at Zephyr Stadium.

October 17 and 18 - Fall Garden Show at the City Park Botanical Gardens.

Read the Many Articles on the Four-o'clock Flower Cancer Project

This is a thumbnail picture of anan article written by The United States Postal Service - USPS - which wrote an article on the breast cancer awareness stamp and on the four-o'clock flowers cancer project which appeared in Postal Life. Several thousand postal employees requested free four-o'clock flower seeds.  The article has several embedded pictures, including a yellow flower, a photo of the breast cancer awareness stamp with a pink ribbon in the corner, and a picture of a postal employee hugging her mother who battled cancer. www.symbolofhope.com This is a thumbnail picture of an article on the cancer tribute which appeared in the University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni publication. The article has several photographs in it, including a photo of Kevin Donahoe holding a handful of four-o'clock flower seeds; a photo showing Kevin Donahoe packing envlopes with four-o'clock flower seeds, and a photo of former President George H. W. Bush congratulating Kevin Donahoe for receiving a Point of Light Foundation award for national volunteerism. www.symbolofhope.com This is a thumbnail picture of an article on the four-o'clock cancer project which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer.  The article is titled: a blooming memorial to a father grows here and across the nation. www.symbolofhope.com This is a thumbnail picture of an article which appeared in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City about the Governor of Oklahoma planting four-o'lclock flower seeds at the mansion. www.symbolofhope.com

USPS Postal Life

University of Louisiana - Monroe

Philadelphia Inquirer

Daily Oklahoman


 

History
of the Tribute

Eulogy for Jim

Poetry by Jim

Free Four-O'clock
Flower Seeds

Four-o'clock Flower Pictures from Around the World

Letters from
U.S. Postmasters

Newspaper and
Magazine Articles

Television and
Hollywood Celebrities

Awards and Honors

Doubloons for
Cancer Project

Upcoming Events

Information on Kevin

 

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