One in eight women will be stricken with breast cancer in her lifetime. Many have lost,watched or are witnessing their mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts and friends suffer from this cancer. My friend Amber is one of the many. In honor of her mother who passed away a year ago from breast cancer, Team Pammy Bear has been started and has accepted the challenge to raise funds for the 2008 Komen Denver Race for the Cure. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the funds that Team Pammy Bear raises will be used for breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs in the Denver community. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the money we raise will be used for national research to find a cure for breast cancer. A cure for breast cancer will be found, but in the meantime, many people need our help. Fifty-five thousand (55,000) women in the Denver metro area are without access to mammograms. Twenty and one-half percent (20.5%) of Coloradoans lack basic health insurance. Please join us in the fight against breast cancer by contributing to the 2008 Denver Race for the Cure. Your tax-deductible contribution will fund outreach and awareness programs for the medically underserved in the Denver community. Your donation will also insure that national breast cancer research continues until the cause for breast cancer is determined. Every $100 raised helps one woman in the Denver metro area receive a mammogram. A $250 donation will pay for five clinical breast exams, and $1,000 will help pay for one round of chemotherapy drug Taxotere. It is easy to contribute. You can make a donation online by simply clicking the link below. If you prefer, you can also send your tax-deductible contribution to the address listed below. One of my main motivations for starting Team Pammy Bear was to begin building a support group for my friend Amber; to surround her with love and understanding from others who have been through the same pain that she is enduring. I want her to see that there are others like her and that there is always light and hope after the darkest of hours. To help with this, I have also started a blog called Team Pammy Bear. I encourage anyone who is searching for the same support or for those who have already experienced what she is experiencing now and would like to help to visit our blog: http://teampammybear.spaces.live.com/ If you would like to walk with Team Pammy Bear in the Family Event on Sunday, October 5th at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO go to our personal page and select the Join Val's Team icon. Registration is $30 per adult and $20 per 18 years old and under or 65 and over. The walk is 1 mile long and begins at 9:30am. We would love to see you there. http://www.komendenver.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1470522&pg=personal&fr_id=1070 Please forward this to everyone you know. I am the cure. You are the cure. Together we are the cure. Thank you for your support! Val Godel (970)309-8149 val_godel@msn.com To send a donation by mail: Komen Denver Race for the Cure
1835 Franklin Street
Denver, Colorado 80218
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