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Extend your summer

at Darien Lake

and help fight MS

With summer coming to a close, it's time to "Extend Your Summer at Darien Lake" for one last hurrah.

Come to Multiple Sclerosis Day at Darien Lake and enjoy an "all-you-can-eat" three hour-lunch feast, which includes unlimited beverages, marinated chicken breasts, grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, Caesar salad, baked beans, fruit salad and frozen ice cream novelties.

Enjoy exclusive use of the park's private picnic area all day long, including over 100 rides, shows and attractions.

The park will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Special discounted rates will be available for overnight accommodations at the hotel and campgrounds.

All overnight accommodations at the resort include next-day admission into the park.

This event is sponsored by the Darien Lake Theme Park Resort.

The event is open to anyone wishing to show support for individuals and families living with multiple sclerosis.

The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 15 at Darien Lake, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center, N.Y.

The cost of this event is $27 and includes park admission, parking fee and the three-hour, all-you-can-eat lunch buffet.

Tickets must be purchased through the Buffalo Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

To register and to request tickets, call 1-800-FIGHT-MS (1-800-344-4867).

For more information, contact Maura Banar, at 716-634-2573, ext. 14 or Maura.Banar@nyr.nmss.org, or Casey O'Connor at 585-271-0801, ext. 5342 or Coconnor@ msupstateny. org.

You may also mail ticket requests, with a check for $27.00 per ticket, made payable to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Attention: Darien Family Day, 4245 Union Road, Suite 108, Buffalo, N.Y. 14225.

NAMI offers programs for families of individuals

with mental illness

The National Alliance of Mental Illness in Buffalo and Erie County will sponsor the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program specifically for families of persons diagnosed with serious mental illness.

The 12-week series of classes will start in Amherst from 6:30-9 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 24 at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4007 Main St.

The course will cover information about schizophrenia, the mood disorders, panic disorder, borderline disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.

The course will also cover coping skills such as handling crises and relapse, basic information about medications, listening and communication techniques, recovery and rehabilitation, and self-care around worry and stress.

The curriculum has been written by an experienced family member clinical psychologist and is facilitated by NAMI Buffalo and Erie County volunteers who have taken intensive training as course instructors.

It is designed specifically for parents, siblings, spouses, teenage and adult children, and significant others of persons with severe and persistent mental illness.

The course is not appropriate for individuals who themselves have one of the major mental illnesses.

The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Course is free. Participants receive educational binders with each class that are also free.

For more information or to register, call 688-4125 or 689-7843.