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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Events Offered
The Susan G. Komen Organization is hosting several races in Florida during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Find out how you can help.
On Saturday, thousands of mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and friends came together for the 13th annual Florida Suncoast Race for the Cure in St. Petersburg. The event raised money for mammograms and other diagnostic services for people in the Tampa Bay area.
If you missed the event, you can still take part in a race. There are four more race for the cure events in Florida in October. Check out the Komen Race for the Cure website to find out dates and locations.
In Winter Park, FL, a hospital is raising money for the cause by selling pink plastic flamingos, which are popping up in yards all over town.
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The White House got a pink glow in Washington, DC. People painted their pumpkins pink in Calvert, MD, and women donated art made of bras in Orange City, FL. In Pennsylvania, first lady Susan Corbett turned the fountain pink in Harrisburg. And they did it all last year in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
This October promises to bring even more colorful and thoughtful events and opportunities.
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“Clearly, every person who brings attention to the cause is fantastic,” said Terry Music, chief mission delivery officer for the American Cancer Society.
Groups of women are getting together and survivors are reaching out to each other on social networks. Children are helping out, too, by pitching tents and filling water bottles at fundraisers in Tampa and serving pink lemonade from homemade stands in Philadelphia. Neighbors in Little Neck, NY, gather for a block party.
Men are participating, too, and in Connecticut, they are hosting a dance—no ties needed! In Virginia, men’s soccer and volleyball teams suit up in pink for special games.
There are hundreds of breast cancer awareness walks and runs around the country, plus marathons and a plethora of exercise-related events. Then there are the tea parties, luncheons, golf tournaments, masquerade balls, art shows, motocross and motorcycle rides and concerts. And, of course, let’s not forget the high heel races going on around the world in support of breast cancer awareness, like the Stiletto Stampede for the Cure in Houston.