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Show i Donna Jolley asked to serve with March of Dimes Campaign March of Dimes Mother's March on Birth Defects is already selecting selec-ting their volunteers, though the march will not be until Jan. 18-25. To helps with its success, Donna Jolley has agreed to serve as Pleasant Grove's city leader and is recruiting volunteers who will do their own areas and neighborhoods. Great progress has been made in the prevention of birth defects. Every year brings more knowledge, more help to see that babies can be born healthy. In the forefront of this progress against our largest child health problem is the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Due in large part to the work of this voluntary health agency, research programs have made great strides in the prevention and treatment of birth defects. New treatments make it possible to ease the effects of many birth defects. Even more wonderful, some birth defects now can be treated successfully in the mother's womb. Education programs today tell us more about birth defects than we ever knew. We are learning how to prevent them. Individuals are the first line of prevention. This is the gift and mission that the March of Dimes brings to our community. This January the annual an-nual Mothers' March of the March of Dimes will come calling at the front doors of thousands of our homes. The volunteers who give their time to the Mothers March will be asking all of us to join the battle to prevent birth defects to assure our future children their best health at birth. |