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For the second year in a row, the Blackville Garden Club (BGC) will participate in the Regional Garden Club of SC's "Plant it Pink" Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in front of Russell's Pizza on Wednesday, October 2 from 11 a.m. through lunchtime.
Attending club members will supportively be wearing pink and encourage the community to stop by for information, snacks, pink flower seeds, stickers, etc. and the opportunity to join them in support of this important cause.
BGC Recording Secretary Marla Jameson said, "Last year's event was such a success and so warmly welcomed and supported by the community, that we hope to make this an annual event."
As you drive through Blackville along Main Street during the month of October, you'll notice Pink Ribbons hanging from the light posts. Three hundred yards of ribbon for the bows, made by Jameson and to be hung by various club members, was generously donated by James Carroll, owner of Carol's Florist on the Circle in Barnwell, who said he is "happy to support breast cancer awareness along with the BGC."
Pink ribbons became symbolically recognized for National Breast Cancer Awareness in 1992 to support those who have been diagnosed with, are battling, or recovering from the disease.
October 1985 brought the origination of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in partnership with the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries. Their combined efforts promoted mammograms as a most effective step in the fight against breast cancer.
BGC's co-president, Darlene Brandt, is herself a breast cancer survivor and shared, "I was very fortunate to have discovered the lump very early and had a Lumpectomy a month later. I went through chemo for 5 months and had 32 radiation treatments." Brandt has been cancer-free for close to five and a half years now. "Early detection is the key to survival and could save your life," she said.
Because of awareness and early diagnosis, to date there are more than 4 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.
BGC would like to give a special thank you to Russell's Pizza for once again offering their Blackville location to welcome BGC members to set up outside their front door in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.
