GOLDEN Childhood Cancer Awareness Dinner and Dance Benefit
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Please join us at our 2nd Annual GOLDEN Dinner and Dance Benefit! We plan to have an exciting and dynamic time while raising awareness for our children who bravely fight this battle!
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!
GOLDEN is a Go Gold initiative organized by a group of individuals concerned about the awareness of childhood cancers in the community.
All proceeds raised from ticket sales will go directly to the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO). whose mission is to address the needs of families through programs that emphasize information, advocacy, awareness, and research. ACCO provides:
- Free Kits to families affect by childhood cancers in Spanish & English. Kits include books and videos to help family members cope with cancer.
- Funds for child cancer research
- Literature about chldhood cancers
Your contribution will help fund ACCO initiatives. $15 will put one of the many available books in the hands of a child with cancer, $25 will give a book to the child's teacher, and $100 will give a full set of materials to a family in need of them. More information about materials can be found at www.acco.org
Dinner 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dance 8:00 pm - 1:00 am
This year we are excited to announce that the Ben Mendez campaign will collaborate with our Go Gold efforts. Ben is running for the City Council for District I seat. Ben has directly expressed concerns about the high cancer rate in the Manchester area of District I. The placement of several refineries in District I has direct effects of the increase in cancer rates in District I and Ben is ready to fight in City Council to do what is needed to reduce these rates! We commend Ben for putting this topic in the forefront of this race!
Please Go Gold and join us for this very worthy cause "because kids can't fight cancer alone."