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The PHS football team will be wearing pink and white socks, and the cheerleaders will wear bows to show their support for defeating cancer.
NHS will sell pink bandanas for $1 apiece. Club members also will sell tickets for a 50/25/25 split raffle …
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The Panthers are thinking pink.
The Powell High School National Honor Society will be conducting a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation during the football game between Powell and Jackson Hole Friday night — and the gridders are taking part.
The PHS football team will be wearing pink and white socks, and the cheerleaders will wear bows to show their support for defeating cancer.
NHS will sell pink bandanas for $1 apiece. Club members also will sell tickets for a 50/25/25 split raffle during the first half of the game. Tickets cost $1 apiece or six for $5.
“If people want to just contribute to the Aaron Horner Fund, the kids will be keeping that money separate from the foundation money,” said Tammy Schiermeister, the NHS adviser.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure is providing the socks and bows for the football team and cheerleader squad.
“This is pretty cool. We always take advantage of any opportunity we have to give back,” Panther football head coach Chanler Buck said Monday. “It’s fun, it’s for a great cause. We want to support the community, with as much support as we get.”
The Wyoming affiliate of the foundation is dedicated to combating breast cancer at every front, Schiermeister said.
Up to 75 percent of the affiliate’s net income goes toward funding grants to local hospitals and community organizations that provide breast health education and breast cancer screening opportunities for medically underserved women in Wyoming.
The remaining net income (a minimum of 25 percent) supports the national Komen Grants Program, which funds groundbreaking breast cancer research, meritorious awards and educational and scientific programs around the world.
The Komen Wyoming Affiliate’s service area covers all of Wyoming. This is the first time in 19 years that Komen Wyoming has funded grants in 19 of Wyoming’s 23 counties.
Park County is the recipient of one of those grants, and all fundraising done in Park County for Komen Wyoming will be funneled back into that granting process for next year.
— Tom Lawrence
