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| Beaded Beauty |
Sunny blustery weather greeted the Yellowknife edition of the Race for the Cure today, called Run For Our Lives (RFOL) here...1, 3, 5K walk/run options were available so locals could help raise funds to address breast cancer. For the past few years, a primary focus of the local fundraising has been the purchase of an advanced digital mammography unit for the regional hospital. Today, post-race, amidst celebratory pink balloons, and much cheering and stomping from the all-ages, mostly pink crowd, the announcement came: We did it!!...over $116,000 raised this year alone, in a town with a population just about a sixth of that.
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| Quilted tributes |
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| A Good Reason to Give |
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| Local Money Helps at Home |
The St Patrick's High School Gym was awash in community good spirit and old-fashioned competition. The Diavik Divas narrowly beat the BHP Billiton team for most corporate donations; a local elementary school edged out high schoolers for most dollars raised. The woman who won two round trip airline tickets for raising the most donations, donated them back again. Local businesses donated inspired raffle items, including a gorgeous hand-made quilt, heating oil, snow machine outerwear, audio-electronics, a pellet stove and the grand prize, a diamond valued at about $11,000 donated by one mine, won by an employee at another, with smiles (and more than a few tears) all around.
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My Walking Team
(thanks to the Nursing North of 60 group
for inviting me to join) |
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| Wall of Memory and Shared Stories |
People wore signs 'in memory of...' and 'in honor of...' pinned on their backs, and handwritten testimonials and fervent prayers have been crafted into several evocative and moving quilts each year that all graced the gym walls today. Tim Horton Coffee and donuts, and Coop water, juice and bananas were abundant.
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| One of many, gone too soon |
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Mickey Brown-Leader of the Travelling Bras
and Sold Out Book |
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| Fun Art with a Message |
And in a creative burst to help raise local awareness and have a bit of fun last Spring, local women created and modeled stunning unique bras, surprising the organizers when all 500 colorful books that captured the stories of the art and the artists sold out. The bras were on display at the gym today, too. Plans are already underway for a 'boxer and tie' edition next year to help get the word out about prostate cancer.
A wonderful day. Thank you, Yellowknife!
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| Hand-crafted Ribbon- Quilt Size |
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| More fun underwear art |
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