Pink Tickets

In just a little over a week, thousands of racers, survivors, their friends and families will all be hitting the central Arkansas area to take part in the 21st Susan. G. Komen Race for the Cure.

We have a team registered for the race:  The Bookends!  (kinda fitting, don't you think, since we all work at a library?)
The Arkansas State Library first had a team way back in 2000.  We started out with one Survivor, Wanda, then not long afterwards, added another, Martha. And then another name was added, Barbara. This year we add another staff member, Emma.   In between these 4 wonderfully brave women, we've had other staff members, including myself, who have had their own scary moments after mammograms didn't come up "all clear".
Fortunately for us, our biopsies came back all good.  But for our four staff members, they ended up with not a Golden Ticket, but, a Pink Ticket.  All four underwent treatments.  Three of our four have heard the words, "good news! you are cancer free!" 
Unfortunately, for one of our warriors, Martha, even though she fought as hard as she could, she lost her battle early this year.
This is why, year after year, I send out the call to come fight the war on cancer.  So that we don't lose anymore Marthas.  So we can keep our Wandas, our Barbaras, and our Emmas.

If you haven't registered yet for this year's Komen Arkansas Race, please consider doing so.

The race will be October 4th in downtown Little Rock & North Little Rock, with a brand new race course!
Registration is still going on-- you can log on to www.komenarkansas.org and register, or you can go out to register at  the Race Space (11619 Pleasant Ridge, Little Rock, 72212).   If you can't go out to the Race Space, I will be happy to take your registration form & money and pick up your race packet for you.
 If you will not be able to participate in the Race itself, but would like to help, you can always register for the Sleep in for the Cure--you still get a race shirt, and you can sleep in! (but why sleep in when there's always so much going on Race Morning?!!) 
Guys, you can participate by being a "3 Miles of Men" member--sign up, and you get your own special 3MOM shirt, and you can come cheer on all the ladies as they run/walk through downtown.

If you don't want to participate in the Race, but would like to donate some money, we will be happy to accept your donations!  Generous folks such as Mindy, Karmelita, Inell, and our own Emma gave heartfelt donations, as well as a wonderful Anonymous Donor.  Thank you all!

Again, you can go to www.komenarkansas.org to donate online or find the address to mail it in.        If you do not wish to go online, again, see me, and  I will be happy to take your donations to the Komen office. 

Let's not lose anymore.   Join us in downtown Little Rock on October 4th.
Let's win this war on cancer.
 Let's not hand out anymore Pink Tickets.