Column: A case for lighting the Market House pink
Gladys Hill was honored at Monday’s night’s Fayetteville City Council meeting with a proclamation from Mayor Mitch Colvin to recognize her community work of selling pink light bulbs each October to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Business Notebook: Grant to fund free smoke, carbon monoxide alarms
Cumberland County Emergency Services received a check for $4,912 from South River Electric Membership Corp. for the purchase of smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms to be distributed to volunteer fire departments.
Meet the women guiding breast cancer patients through their journey
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in October, has continual reminders about the disease and the importance of self-checks, annual mammograms and listening to your body. Erin Champion gets reminded every day. A breast cancer survivor, she works as a breast patient navigator at the Breast Care Center at Cape Fear Valley Health. The center, at 524…
Cancer Walk and Community Festival to raise awareness of breast cancer
SPRING LAKE — Pink Dymons will hold its seventh annual 5K Cancer Walk and Community Festival on Sept. 30. The festival is scheduled from 8 a.m. to noon at 300 Ruth St. in Spring Lake, according to a news release.
Segra Stadium event to celebrate breast cancer survivors
The Fayetteville Woodpeckers has partnered with Pink Ink Tattoo to sponsor the 10th annual Day of Hope to Segra Stadium from 1 to 4 p.m. May 4, according to a news release.
Column: ‘So grateful we have the Cancer Center here,’ Susie Godwin says
Susie Godwin is a breast cancer survivor. Not only a survivor, but one of the more fortunate women who has heard those chilling words —”You have breast cancer.” Godwin had our …
Sisterhood of survivors
When Kathy McPhail received the news earlier this year that she had breast cancer, she was not alone. She had a sisterhood of church friends and a support team at Cape Fear Valley Health who held her hand, sent her cards and offered to attend doctor’s appointments with her.
