SIMI VALLEY : Painting to Honor Support-Group Leader
A donated painting will be dedicated today in memory of a man who led cancer support-group meetings at Simi Valley Hospital during 1991 and 1992.
Members of the support group, hospital physicians and others are expected to attend the ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in the hospital’s Aspen Outpatient Center, 2750 N. Sycamore Drive.
The painting will be dedicated to Brian Block, a Simi Valley cancer patient who served as the support group’s first peer leader. It will be displayed in the front lobby. Block died last year.
The landscape was painted by Marti Bell, a Southern California artist who donated the work to the hospital.
Bell became aware of Block’s work with the support group through a family member who worked for Block’s physician, said Jo Lynn Nelson, technical director of the Aspen Center.
Nelson said the support group--for patients, family members and cancer survivors--meets on the first and third Monday of each month.
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