4th Annual Lavendar Festival – June 22, 2013 to benefit the Barbara Davis Center

Graham Daugherty • May 29, 2013

June 22, 10am-4pm
Location: 10901 E. Jewell Ave., Aurora, CO 80012
www.lavenderfest.org 303-668-5362
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FREE Admission

Come and have fun with us. Learn the healing properties of Lavender an outside event at Earth Pharmaceuticals Organic Farm. Purchase lavender gifts and get free samples.

The Lavender Festival was founded in 2010 by Heidi Jarvis. The festival came about because of her niece which was diagnosed at age 7 with type 1 diabetes.

Heidi had been offering her space to Dr. Raphael d’Angelo to distill real Lavender essential oil from her farm for his students, and professionals in the medical and alternative medicine industry for a few years. After experiencing the trauma her niece and her nieces parents went through before she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, hands that looked like an old woman, intense cracked dry lips, an abundant thirst for water, and a lethargic young beautiful girl close to a coma state, Heidi decided she wanted to help.

In 2009 Heidi decided to ask Dr. Raphael d’Angelo if he would participate in a festival that would help children and parents deal with diabetes. Dr. d’Angelo happily excepted. Heidi still wanted to have Dr. d’Angelo distill Lavender essential oil but to also include many other vendors that was fun and informational for the public and children and parents with diabetes but to also give back a portion of the proceeds to the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood diabetes at the Children’s Hospital in Aurora Colorado. So she did just that and today the Lavender Festival is a public free admission event that has over 30 vendors from fun activities for children, alternative healing, natural supplements, essential oils, natural body care products, body workers, healthy food and even music by Tony David Pam Hughes, and Kerry Edward that donates all of there time for this event.

“Diabetes doesn’t need to be so scary for children and their parents. The Lavender Festival tries to help overcome these fears in a fun environment with families that have been through it can connect with others with and without diabetes. We hope you will come and help support all the families with diabetes.”

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