What is In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness?
The "In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness" Project was started last year by me as a new way to raise funds for our local Ashland County Cancer Association, a non-profit that is funded by United Way of Ashland County, Mohican County Community Fund, and donations. Those funds are used to help people with cancer every month by giving them some reimbursement for medicine and transportation to medical care. However, the staff of one and volunteers also are there every day offering educational materials, information, an ear to talk to, and many many more countless hours for little pay. The most common patient that contacts the ACCA and is provided services are breast cancer patients, about 40% of all patients.
In its second year, the projects started out with an "express yourself for honor and hope" arts contest in which the community can enter any kind of art or craft items that have a breast cancer awareness, pink, relaxation and care for yourself, etc. theme. There was also a bra challenge, where women could decorate bras in a theme to support womanhood and what so many lose during their fight with breast cancer.
After the contest, we had a luncheon with the Chamber for Women and Business in which all women in the community are invited. We had several speakers and announced the awards for the contest. Then, the contest entries were auctioned off, along with other donations, in the In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness silent auction that is part of the Taste of Ashland fund-raiser for the ACCA.
Slide Show of Various Items Entered Into the Contest 2009
Items were auctioned to raise money for the
Ashland County Cancer Association
Winners of the 2009 Contest
In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness Project INFO
Winners of the 2009 "express yourself in honor and hope" arts contest
Best Overall~
Target Breast Cancer Decorated Bra
by Sandra Hedlund Tunnell
Best of the Bra Challenge~
Woven Memories
by Becky Echelberger
Runner-up to Best Overall~
Pink Knitted Afghan
by Katie Longsdorf
Most Creative~
Hunting for a Cure Decorated Bra
by Kathy Rhine
Most Original~
Pink Adorned Lamp
by Trudy Volcansek
Most Memorable~
Breast Friends Dolls Decorated Bra
by Sherry Zarnstorff
Express Yourself In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness Project is over for this year. Thank you to all who participated. We had 27 entries overall this year, 10 of those decorated bras.
Click below to view the television brief about the Contest and the Bras:
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Click below to view the article on the Women and Business Luncheon, in conjunction with In Honor and Hope for BCA
www.times-gazette.com/news/article/4694864
Thanks to the sponsors of our luncheon. Click below to view a slide show from the luncheon.
http://www.slideshare.net/ErinAlMehairi/wand-b-luncheon-oct-22-09
Now is a great time to think early about the 2010 contest!
That way you'll have plenty of time. Some initial info:
1. You can make anything you'd like based on your talents. You can create a piece of artwork with any type of material, crochet, kneedlepoint, write poetry, make a craft, photography, sew a blanket or pillow, do something ceramic....whatever you want!
2. You can also enter the Bra Challenge. You can think of a theme and name and decorate a themed bra in honor of womanhood. Details for the Challenge are downloadable below.
3. Items will not be returned, but will be entered into the In Honor and Hope for Breast Cancer Awareness Silent Auction (see below)
Guidelines for Decorated Bras
Design Guidelines for the Bra Challenge 2009.doc