Three to present at AIDS dinner, lecture
Proceeds will fund future awareness events
BY TARA BECKER
tbecker@svnmail.com
800-798-4085, ext. 570
DIXON - Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays Sauk Valley and St. Luke Episcopal Church are marking this week's 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day with a dinner and lecture Sunday at the church, 211 S. Peoria St.
Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served at 5:30 p.m. and dinner will start at 6. Tickets are $15, and all proceeds will benefit future AIDS Day and AIDS awareness activities, PFLAG President Barb Schwamberger said.
The keynote speaker will be the Rev. Andrea Wright of St. Anskar's Episcopal Church in Rockford, a pharmacist who worked at a clinic in a small mountain village in Haiti this year.
Abby Munson, a Sterling High School graduate who works at a health clinic on the west side of Chicago, and Todd Kisner, supervisor of the Winnebago HIV Care Consortium, also will speak.
More than 33 million people worldwide are estimated to have AIDS. World AIDS Day, established in 1988 by the World Health Organization, is observed every year on Dec. 1, to raise awareness of and focus attention on the global epidemic.
