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Comfort For A Cure
Girl Scouts Enter Fight Against Breast Cancer
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By Jill Funke • Photos By Julie Prairie Photography
ith each passing year, the subject of breast cancer is receiving more and more attention. The pink ribbons that signify the disease can be found on everything from key chains to car magnets. Campaigns against breast cancer include events like run/walks and numerous fundraisers. Many different groups are standing together to stamp out the disease that takes mothers, daughters, aunts, grandmothers and women of all ages. Girl Scouts is one group working to increase awareness about breast cancer. Every October, Girl Scout troops across the nation strive to earn their pink breast cancer patches. October is the target month for these efforts, and was selected for two reasons. Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low’s birthday was Oct. 31, and she died from breast cancer. Also, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, making it the perfect time for awareness projects. Annually, the Dakota Horizons Girl Scout Council in Sioux Falls asks troops if they want to make pillows for those fighting breast cancer. This year, the troop from Inwood, Iowa, was excited to participate. Troop leader and Girl Scout mother, Melissa Moser was thrilled to use the pillow project for the troop’s first meeting of the year in October. “I showed the girls the cancer patch they would earn and explained what the pink patch represented,” Moser said. She went on to explain to the interested scouts that cancer is a disease that affects many people, and breast cancer is a type that affects mostly women. “The girls understood that we were doing this pillow project for people who were very sick and going to their doctor to receive chemotherapy.”
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SIOUX FALLS WOMAN • februar y/march 2012