For more than 20 years, October has been National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Our community helps do its part through The Terri Brodeur Foundation and The Susan G. Komen Fight for a Cure Foundation.
Mrs. Klorczyk held a poster-making day in her classroom in support of the people who walked to help the Terri Brodeur Foundation.
“We had a lot of kids. My best friend volunteered me to help her find students who needed LTS hours to help. Students have the choice to help and get more LTS hours on the walk on October 1st either being on the spirit team or walking,” said Mrs. Klorczyk.
“I knew I was going to be doing the walk so I wanted to help out with the posters too. It was a lot of fun and it was nice to see everyone’s expressions when they came down. It was so much fun that I stayed there the entire time,” said senior Jena Gorra.
The field hockey team also found ways to help support the cause.
“We are having a Play for a Cure Game that we have every year. We also had a car wash and some of the proceeds went to the Susan G. Komen Fight for a Cure Foundation. During our game everything is pink, pink ball and pink equipment,” said junior Jamie Cleary.
Over the past few years, DECA sells pink t-shirts to raise awareness for breast cancer. However, DECA has put off the t-shirt until a later date.
“[DECA will not sell these t-shirts] until basketball season because we don’t have any home football games. It made more sense [to hold off] so we postponed it until the winter”, said Mrs. Woznicki, the DECA adviser.
While October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, not every fundraiser has to be done by this month. There are other organizations, such as Puma’s Project Think Pink, an organization that has The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev as its spokesperson, that sell pink merchandise with the proceeds going to breast cancer research.