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Video Will Celebrate Memorial Day BY CATHY MOLITORIS
Ta Ta Rebels founder Kim Ramirez (far right) provides support for breast cancer survivors with the help of volunteers including (from left) Trish Catalfano, Tyler Kline, Cathy Way and Bob Murphy.
Providing Hope For Breast Cancer Survivors few years ago, Bainbridge resident Kim Ramirez was speaking to a group of people for a breast cancer awareness event. “I asked the room, ‘How many of you have supported breast cancer research?’ and every hand went up,” she recalled. “Then, I asked, ‘How many of you have supported breast cancer patients?’ Again, every hand went up. Then, I asked the room, ‘How many of you have supported breast cancer survivors?’ and the hands went down.” Ramirez is determined to change that response. She founded Ta Ta Rebels Inc. after her own battle with breast cancer, and the organization celebrates its fifth anniversary this year.
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Jack Frank will narrate a video commemorating the importance of Memorial Day in Maytown.
started thinking, ‘I’m not alone in this battle.’” The nonprofit focuses solely on survivors, Ramirez said. “For organizations like the PA Breast Cancer Coalition, you have to be in treatment to receive services,” she explained. “The reality is survivorship is just as expensive as going through treatment.” The organization assists with copays, deductibles and medical equipment such as prostheses, mastectomy bras and compression sleeves. “We will consider coverage to help with any medically related bill for breast cancer survivors,” Ramirez noted. Since the organization began, it has raised more than $20,000 and has helped more than four dozen women across the state.
Sara Gutshall is devoted to veterans, and it shows. For the past year, the Maytown resident has been coordinating a fundraiser to replace the crumbling walkways in Maytown square with engraved bricks bearing the names of community members and businesses. The bricks will be dedicated at a ceremony on Monday, May 31, beginning at 1 p.m.
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Maytown Square Bricks To Be Dedicated BY CATHY MOLITORIS
INSIDE THIS ISSUE Business Directory . . . . . .4 Retro Road Trip: PA’s Drive-In Movie Theaters . . . . . . . . .5 Boy Scout Plans Memorial Dedication . . . . .6 Lending An Arm To Children In Need . . . . .9 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 House Of Worship . . . . . .10 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . .12
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Ramirez is an eight-year survivor of breast cancer. Four years after her diagnosis, she ended up in the emergency room, thinking she was having a heart attack. “My right arm was swollen, and something just wasn’t right,” she recalled. It took more than a year of testing before she received her diagnosis: lymphedema, a common side effect for people who have had lymph nodes removed during breast cancer treatment. “I learned that most insurances do not cover costs related to lymphedema,” Ramirez remarked, adding that treatment includes massage therapy and wearing an expensive compression sleeve up to 12 hours a day. “My friends and family did a fundraiser to help me offset some of the costs, and I
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The pandemic may have forced the Maytown Memorial Day committee to cancel its annual parade, but it didn’t stop the group from getting creative. “We were having a committee meeting, and one of our members said, ‘Why don’t we do something virtual?’” recalled Linda Good, committee member. So, the group got to work rounding up old photos of parades of the past as well as pictures of the town square through the years to showcase in a video that will be released on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31, on YouTube and will also be available for purchase. Lifelong Maytown resident Jack Frank narrates the video, which runs about 20 minutes. He said choosing not to hold the parade and ceremony this year was a difficult decision, but a necessary one.
“We always start the parade with the Bainbridge Band, but they are not performing together this year,” he explained. “The high school band also could not participate. We just thought it wouldn’t be much of a parade without the bands, and by the time we got the OK to maybe organize something, we had run out of time. It takes a long time to plan this parade.”
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