Events: Breast Cancer Candlelight Vigil

Thanks also to the 9-29-06 City Notes for the notice of this event:

Vigil to remember those affected by breast cancer

A candlelight vigil Oct. 13 in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month will remember loved ones and recognize survivors of the disease.
The vigil, presented by the Breast Cancer Awareness Committee, is part of the city’s campaign to raise consciousness of one of America’s leading causes of cancer death among women and men.

Participants will gather on the Green at 6:30 p.m. for the public ceremony, which starts at 7.

Anyone wishing to remember a loved one or survivor can call organizers. The committee will recite the names and inscribe them on a luminary.
Call Beth A. Sabo at 937-3588, Jennifer Cavallaro at 937-3619, Susan See at 937-3914 or Charlene Morgal at 937-3586.

The committee also has announced that it will donate the year’s $35,000 in fundraising proceeds to three area organizations.

Branford-based Y-ME of Connecticut, which offers counseling services for women and men with breast cancer, and the Yale-New Haven Breast Center will each receive $10,000, said Sabo, the city’s commissioner of public works.

Sabo said the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care and its Looking Forward program will receive the lion’s share of the proceeds with $15,000.