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Article: Gilda's Club building for sale Group plans move to smaller space
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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By TOM HELD
For five years, a former Masonic Lodge on N. Oakland Ave. has
been an airy, peaceful and near-perfect place where people living
with cancer relax, share their fears and expand their lives.
It also has been a financial drain for the Gilda's Club it
houses, one that the board of directors has decided it can no longer
afford as donations to the nonprofit decline.
The building is up for sale, listed with Boerke Co. for $1.1
million, the board of directors and Executive Director Trish
Haudricourt informed the club members recently. Their sustainability
plan is to find a smaller space to hold the educational programs,
the art classes, group counseling and popular yoga sessions designed ...