Sherman Oaks, California — weSPARK, the non-profit cancer support center founded earlier this year by actress Wendie Jo Sperber in wake of her personal bout with the disease, celebrates its Grand Opening on Thursday, November 8, 2001.

weSPARK House coordinators welcome friends and supporters for food, celebration and merriment.  Festivities begin at 5:30 PM, with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony with Mayor Hahn and Councilman Jack Weiss scheduled at 6:00 PM.

After physically and mentally recovering from her own bout with cancer in 1998, Wendie Jo began weSPARK as a free, non-institutional cancer support center as a means of spiritual and emotional support for those whose lives had become affected by the disease.

Wendie Jo recently announced on Entertainment Tonight that today, she is once again personally facing those same challenges in wake of a recurrence of the disease.  Her tireless efforts in seeing weSPARK to fruition and the encouragement from family and friends gives her the support and strength to live.

With funds raised from three successful Celebrity Golf Classics and generous donations from friends such as Steven Spielberg, her dream has become a reality with weSPARK House opening its doors to hundreds of others in the San Fernando Valley looking for their own strength & reasons to live. Cancer patients, as well as their families and friends, receive love, laughter and the emotional support necessary to find new hope in a truly remarkable environment filled with love and peace.