Story by Kaylyn Flatt
Willow Creek Fifth Grader
Willow Creek Elementary School is organizing a Think Pink Month in February.
Some students at our school have relatives or parents who have breast cancer. The Student Council realizes that, and wants to help them and their families. That is where Think Pink Month came to life.
Starting on February 1,all the Fridays in February will be Pink Awareness Day and we will encourage all the kids in the school,
even the boys, to wear pink.
At lunch on these days we are hoping parent volunteers will hand out various pink things, such as pink suckers and pink ice cream and other things, to reinforce Think Pink Month.
The items we have for Pink Awareness Days will depend on donations from local companies.
The Student Council will also be selling pink strips of paper to make a long paper chain. The cost is a donation of the buyer's choice. Each pink strip will have various comments and names of people with Breast Cancer that the buyer wrote on his or her pink link. We want to see if the chain will make it around the school. The money will be donated to The Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers.
Willow Creek Elementary parent,
Linda Monson, explained, "Cancer treatments are very expensive; one of my chemotherapy treatments costs $8000, and I had 4 of them! I'm lucky not only to be a patient at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers, the premiere cancer center in the region, but also to have insurance that pays for almost all of my treatments. Many people aren't so lucky; the Rocky Mountain Cancer Center foundation helps people who have cancer but cannot afford to pay their high medical bills. The generosity of the Willow Creek students in helping people with cancer is amazing!"
"I hope we can make a difference for people that have breast cancer with the money from the pink links," said Co-President of Student Council Kaylyn Flatt.
If you are interested in buying a pink link, you can send donations to:
Student Council
Willow Creek Elementary School
7855 S. Willow Way
Centennial, Co 80112