News Release  

Free health screenings
at Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival 

PORTLAND, Ore. (June 4, 2009) — How’s your hearing? Your blood pressure? Get free health screenings at the 2009 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, presented by First Tech Credit Union. Visit the Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Pavilion while at the festival.

Health screenings will be available from 3 to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 2, and noon to 7 p.m., Friday through Sunday, at the Lion’s Club Mobile Testing Unit and the Caring Ambassadors Program booth, both located at the Good Neighbor Pharmacy Health Pavilion, near the FedEx Workshop Stage.

The Lions Club Mobile Testing Unit will offer health screenings for

• Glaucoma
• Hearing
• Blood Pressure
• Blood Glucose (a test for Diabetes)

Staffed by Lion’s Club volunteers, Pacific University’s third-year pharmacy students and Good Neighbor Pharmacy’s pharmacists, The Lions Club Mobile Testing Unit is air-conditioned and provides a clean, private and quiet environment for health screenings. Staff will recommend health and preventive measures based on test results and will also conduct interviews on heartburn and heartburn treatment.

In addition, the Caring Ambassadors Program will offer free screenings for hepatitis C. Hepatitis C affects four to five million Americans and can go undetected for many years, resulting in severe liver disease and liver cancer.  Early detection and treatment are essential to recovery. 

Participants must sign a release form to receive health screenings.

About Oregon Food Bank: Oregon Food Bank is a nonprofit, charitable organization. It is the hub of a the Oregon Food Bank Network, a statewide network of 20 regional food banks and 915 hunger-relief agencies serving Oregon and Clark County, Wash.

About festival sponsors: The Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival is presented by First Tech Credit Union.  

Major sponsors include FedEx Corporation, iQ Credit Union, The Oregonian A&E, KINK.fm, Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Wildhorse Resort and Casino, and Travel Portland.

Supporting sponsors include Mission Foods, Deschutes Brewery, Henry’s, Beringer Wine, Snapple, Earth2o Water, Pepsi, Frito Lay Snacks, Yoshida Sauce, Dave’s Killer Bread, Eggland’s Best, Dreyer’s Ice Cream, Burt’s Bees, NW Natural, The Boeing Company, PacificSource Health Plans, OregonLive.com, Blues Revue, Music Millennium, True Tone Audio, Karolyn March, Lions Foundation, Cascade Blues Association, Winthrop Music Association, Oregon State Fair, Oregon Potters Association, Cascade Zydeco Association, Delta Music Experience, University Place Hotel, Marriott Hotel, RiverPlace Hotel, Hotel Fifty, travelportland.com.

For more information, visit www.waterfrontbluesfest.com.