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Breast Cancer Awareness Month Activities

Noteworthy National
Breat Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) Activities

• Fairlight Medical Center, in Williston, ND, educated the public by doing radio broadcasts and by handing out printed materials with pink carnations to motorists stopped at red lights.

• Dressed in pink, the students and staff at North Dade Middle School in Miami Gardens, FL, stood in the shape of a giant ribbon to increase awareness about breast cancer.

• In Johnson, KS, breast cancer survivor Denise Smith held a ceremony to honor those with breast cancer, then used lighting to turn her community’s water tower pink for the whole month of October.

• Golden Acres Baptist Church in Phenix City, AL, supplied members with strips of pink ribbon on which to write names of people affected by breast cancer, then formed the ribbon into traditional loops and attached them to wreaths.

• Joyce Armstrong of Dolores, CO, and Robin Armstrong-Miller of Glendale, AZ, have spent the last five years volunteering, fundraising and walking for the cause while wearing pink plaid kilts.

• Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox, VA, distributed information packets to health departments, hair salons, stores, restaurants and churches, as well as ran weekly newspaper ads in an attempt to cover 70 miles of the Eastern Shore.

• In addition to several educational activities, staff of the Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales, AZ, painted a tree trunk on a lobby window, then sold pink paper leaves to make money for research.

• The Women’s Center at Texas A&M in Corpus Christi decorated the campus in pink and sold T-shirts plus organized a blood drive, contests, a candlelight vigil, a health expo and a dog walk fundraiser.

• Each October since 2004, URS Washington Division in Cleveland, OH, has held events that raised more money than the year before. In 2008, the division collected
more than $10,000.

• Faulkton Area Medical Center encouraged residents of Faulkton, SD, to wear pink on Fridays. Members of the center’s Breast Health Team went around town giving out prizes to people who participated.