Join us in raising awareness

Published Monday, October 12, 2009

“Alexander City’s Tickled Pink” is Russell Medical Center’s new slogan to recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The campaign kicked off last Thursday in an effort to get residents to spend more time “thinking pink” by placing pink ribbons around the medical center and encouraging folks around town to do the same.

“We want all the businesses and homes to tie pink ribbons on their doors or mailboxes,” said Sandra Patten, RMC’s community relations coordinator.

Alexander City Mayor Barbara Young is also encouraging all businesses and individuals in town to display pink ribbons.

“Several of us are cancer survivors. I think it’s a great thing and I hope our whole city will respond to this,” Young said.

We’re joining the “pink” chorus.

This week The Outlook will feature a pink ribbon on its front page and we will publish a special edition focusing on breast cancer in our weekend edition. Our coverage will cover stories about both women and men who have survived breast cancer, as well as reports about what people in our community are doing to detect, prevent and treat this potentially devastating disease.

On Nov. 5, RMC will host a breast cancer awareness luncheon from noon to 1 p.m. at the Betty Carol Graham Technology Center Ballroom. Speakers at the event are Paul Ott Carruth, Sr. and Carla Carruth Tigner, a father and daughter who have both been diagnosed with breast cancer.

We encourage you to attend the luncheon, to learn more about this disease that can affect each of us and to proudly display pink ribbons until the Nov. 5 event.

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