Breast Cancer Awareness 2014
Race for the Cure runners make the turn onto Front Street in Tupelo as they pass the iconic Tupelo Hardware in Downtown.
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A pink blur
Annual Komen Race for the Cure slated for Oct. 25 on young participants. DAILY JOURNAL Organizers have created a discounted kids registration Downtown Tupelo will pink for those under 14. The Tout on Oct. 25. shirts are available down to The annual Komen North toddler sizes, so even the Mississippi Race for the Cure stroller set can get their pink will bring thousands together on. for fun, hope and the fight Teams that come together against breast cancer. and raise $1,000 or more will “I love how people come to- be invited to set up in the team gether and support one antailgate area. The area will be other,” said Melonie Kight, open to the public, but only race chairwoman. the teams who met the This year, organizers are fundraising goal will get to set pumping up the fun for the up their own site, Kight said. race. In addition to encouragJust like a football tailgate, ing runners to reveal their how simple or elaborate will inner pink power with crazy be up to the team. The site can costumes, the one-mile fun serve as home base for their run will have an optional obteam – which can be helpful stacle course. for organizing large groups – “We’re adding fun to the fun or a platform to honor breast run,” said Cindy Hale, affiliate cancer survivors coordinator. “They can bring their own The surprises on the fun run tents and set up lights and course, which can be bypassed generators if they want,” she by those who would just like to said. walk, were added with an eye The goal is to bring more BY MICHAELA GIBSON MORRIS
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Online registration at www.komennorthms.org • Cost $25 for adults; $15 for 14 and under. Timing chip $5 extra • Team registration ends Oct. 13 at 4 p.m. • Online registration ends Oct. 17 at 4 p.m. Walk-up registration/packet pick up
• Noon-7 p.m. Oct. 22-24 at the Tupelo Convention Visitors Bureau. Registration will be $30 for adults; $25 for 14 and under. Timing chip $5 extra. • Oct. 27 Race Day. Onsite registration will be $35 cash only; no electronic timing available.
than 3,600 people to the Oct. 25 race. So far, registration is ahead of last year, Hale said. “I think people are really getting excited,” she said. The fun has started even before Race Day. Each week the North Mississippi affiliate is recognizing the top individual fundraiser of the week. They get a prize – such as dinner and a movie or gift cards to stores – and recognition on Facebook. “They can win more than once,” Hale said.
This year, the affiliate is striving to raise $65,000 through fundraising in addition to the race entries. Because the need remains great, Hale said.
THE CAUSE
All the fun is focused on serious work – raising money to fight breast cancer in North Mississippi and finding a cure. Seventy-five percent of the money raised through the TURN TO RACE, 2E
It didn’t take long for someone to put a pink cape on the Elvis statue at Fairpark at last year’s event.
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A supplement to the Daily Journal October 1, 2014 Section E