Page 46 May 2012 member of the Ingleside Dad’s Club. “We suggested to the kids, ‘Why don’t you come up with your own plan?’ ” When thinking about groups they could help, immediately the girls knew they wanted to help other kids in their area, Sydnee said. “They came up with the idea,” George Bosworth said. Bosworth is a member of the Dad’s Club and Emma’s grandfather. The girls contacted the Watkins Basic Needs Shelter, a homeless shelter that provides kids and their families a place to stay and programs to help the parents fi nd work. “We fi gured it would be a huge learning experience,” Dave Binsfeld said. Binsfeld is also a member of the Ingleside Dad’s Club and Allison’s father. When the girls went to visit the shelter for the fi rst time, Sydnee said it was an eye- opening experience. They saw hundreds of beds in a room and realized there were many families in need of help. “It de fi nitely made me realize how fortunate I am to live where I live and go to school where I do,” Sydnee said. “From that point, all we wanted to do was to create a day where they could get away from that for awhile.” The girls threw a car wash at Arcadia Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and raised more than $500, which was matched by the Dad’s Club. The money from the car wash went to support a Fun Day for the Watkins Homeless Shelter. It featured games, food, face painting and other events. Along with the party, the girls and the Dad’s Club organized donations for the shelter as well as a $20 Walmart gift card for every child at the shelter. The effort grew beyond the four founders and now includes participants from other grade levels. The K4K Program aspires to continue to grow and become an annual event. “What’s amazing is there were four girls that started it together and now there are multiple grade levels participating in it,” Steve Sanchez said. 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Page 47 May 2012 underground, Downs said. This is especially important for people in the Arcadia area, which is rich with citrus trees. The bees are attracted to these sorts of plants for fi nding pollen, he said. If a hive is formed, residents should call a professional to take care of the situation. The most important thing to remember when dealing with bees is that it is hard to tell if a bee is of European or the more aggressive African descent, and so bees should be avoided altogether. “You just don’t know what they are until you’re too close (to be stung),” Downs said. According to the Maricopa County Environmental Services Department’s Vector Control Division, there have been at least three complaints of bees in Arcadia so far this year. Bees Continued from page 41 Cancer patient turns to natural course of healing Rachel Alberts By Jessica Abercrombie While an IV fi lled with liquid vitamins and natural supplements rests in Rachel Albert’s left arm, her warm demeanor and jovial disposition evade the discomforts accompanying her cancer. “It’s been incredibly intense, but in the midst of it, there is intense joy and grati fi cation,” Albert said. “It brings tears to my eyes because I never knew so many people would be there for me. There is no point in my whole entire life that I have felt so loved and supported.” Albert, who has lived in Arcadia for eight years, received her breast cancer diagnosis in October. Her fi rst step was to begin researching options toward recovery, focusing on the differences between Western medicines and a holistic approach to treatment. “I have been into natural foods and natural health for 27 years, so I knew I didn’t want to do the conventional approach,” said Albert, con fi rming her decision to take a natural route to recovery. “Most of what people know is chemo, radiation and surgery. They don’t know about diet and all of those natural options you can do to help your body.” Albert decided surgery would be a last resort, and for now, she wants to focus her energy on strengthening her body. She said an important thing she learned is that because cancer is a process, simply removing the tumors doesn’t necessarily eradicate the cancer. “You have to support the body by detoxifying it,” she said. “Think of it like a garden. It’s not enough to just take out the weeds; you have to nourish the soil.” Without medical insurance, Albert called more than 10 local hospitals in search of programs offering fi nancial assistance. Because it was late in the year, she said, most of the hospitals had run out of available funds for those who quali fi ed, including Albert. “Instead of saying ‘Put it on my card,’ I call it ‘Putting it on my faith,’ because the money has come out of pockets that I don’t have,” she said. With deceased parents and no siblings, Albert said her close friends have become her family, and she is amazed by their willingness to support her. To help raise money for Albert, her friends, students and coworkers at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, where Rachel continues to teach, organized a bene fi t 5-8 p.m. May 11. “We decided on a raf fl e, silent auction and a gluten-free dinner at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts,” she said. “I know these people really care about me and what I do, but it’s still so touching seeing what they are doing for me.” Albert said her cancer hasn’t been an impediment to her busy schedule and she has enjoyed keeping busy with what she considers two full-time jobs: cooking and teaching as a chef, and maintaining her cancer treatments. “My work has been a source of strength and joy,” she said. “Even when things are horribly stressful in the rest of my life, when I teach, I just know that I could forget my troubles and be right there.” A journal fi lled with Albert’s notes from her treatments contains the contents of a book she is writing about her healing journey. 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