Women’s Festival makes a splash
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| Artist Margaret Hudson, a breast cancer survivor, leads a workshop at the third annual LiveBetter Women's Festival at Clovis Community. |
An estimated 700 women pre-registered before the event and about 300 registered the day of.
Stefani Booroojian of KSEE 24 helped start the morning off with a welcome and also educated woman about monthly breast exams and the Buddy Check program.
Craig Castro, Clovis Community’s CEO, was thrilled with the turnout.
“I’m really excited,” Castro said. “We had 700 women pre-register, and with different seminars to choose from, the festival is a real treat for all of us.”
The LiveBetter Women’s Festival showcased 35 medical and lifestyle seminars to encourage women to live simpler, healthier and better lives.
“It is important for women to take a break,” Castro said. “Typically, they are the caregivers and the festival is a day for them to pause and reflect and take care of themselves.”
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| Tamie Shipman was the lucky winner of the Wii and Wii Fit systems at the Women's Festival. |
“It was drizzling during the walk, but it didn’t stop us from having a great time,” Fisher said. “We walked most of the campus grounds and showed the attendees different and proper ways to exercise — even using a random bench.”
With the rain starting to beat down before Margaret Hudson’s scheduled seminar, plans changed that moved her outdoor hands-on art activity and those attending her seminar to the main lobby of the hospital.
“I wanted so badly to stay outside,” Margaret Hudson said. “It was so beautiful and raining just a little bit – then all of sudden it came down harder and we had to go indoors.”
Regardless of the sudden venue change, Hudson, a breast cancer survivor and artist, entertained the audience with her humor, strength and inspirational story of overcoming the odds against cancer. She wowed the audience with her creativity, using an attendee’s dental floss to cut her clay in half.
Dr. Kenty U. Sian, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, was on hand to discuss ways to prevent and detect skin cancer in its early stages.
“There are more than a million Americans that will get skin cancer each year and it is important to detect skin cancer early and understand prevention,” Dr. Sian said. “The festival is a very informative event and I recommend everyone come out each year.”
This story was reported by Joann Mercado. She can be reached at MedWatchToday@communitymedical.org.