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Sunday 16 October 2011

New York walking for breast cancer awareness

FlipOut Sandals is excited to announce a fashionable partnership with the American Cancer Society to support breast cancer awareness and the organization’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” event


American company FlipOut Sandals partnered with the American Cancer Society and Hope Lodge New York City to make stylish strides against breast cancer.
FlipOut Sandals is excited to announce a fashionable partnership with the American Cancer Society to support breast cancer awareness and the organization’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” event.
On October 14th FlipOut Sandals kicked up its heels at the ACS Hope Lodge New York City and provided a day of relaxation for guests and families. FlipOut Sandals will pamper Hope Lodge guests with relaxing pedicures, soothing massages, sweet pink treats, and gifted pairs of their signature Pink Jelly Sandals.
“We are truly inspired by the generosity of the organization and the strength and courage of their guests,” remarks Tracey Hunter, co-owner of FlipOut Sandals. “We want to celebrate the American Cancer Society’s efforts to finding a cure and this event was just our small way of trying to give something back. Along with co-owner, Cheryl Hamersmith-Stewart, we are thrilled to host an event with Hope Lodge that celebrates life, beauty and fashion.“

Breast cancer stole Aunt Charlotte at 51. It seized Grandmom at 82.
So five days before Christine Santini, of Greenwich Township, turns 50, she'll spend her birthday weekend walking with her daughters.
Every step, she said, brings them closer to a cure.
"I lost my aunt (Charlotte Hart) when she was 51," said Santini, who also lost her grandmother, Ethel Hayford, to the disease. "So when it was approaching my 50th birthday, I said to my two daughters, 'Let's do a girls' weekend. Let's do this in honor of them.'"
Santini and her daughters, Stephanie Santini, 27, and Carly Barlieb, 24, are participating in this weekend's two-day Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in New York City. Opening ceremonies were set for 6 this morning.
The 39-mile trek snakes through Manhattan and across the Brooklyn Bridge and raises money for breast cancer research and treatment.
The event, which raised more than $380 million between 2003 and 2010 in multiple cities, according to the Avon website, is held during National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
"My mom is the kind of person that never asks for much," said Barlieb, also of Greenwich Township. "So when she asked for us to do this, there was no way we could say no."
They plan to walk about 26 miles today from Hudson River Park's Pier 84 at 44th Street to the West Side Highway. The walkers will weave through Manhattan neighborhoods, cross the Brooklyn Bridge and end at Randall's Island.
After a night at a hotel, they'll travel 13 miles back toward Pier 84.
At first, Christine Santini said, she didn't think they could raise the $5,400 required of three walkers.
They sent out donation letters to friends and family. They offered space on the back of their "Chris's Team" T-shirts for donors to add names of friends or relatives who died from or survived breast cancer."It's really hard in this day and age to raise that amount of funds. ... It's tough, people are struggling," Santini said. But "with the kindness of relatives and friends, we made it."
Breast cancer kills nearly 41,000 people a year, or one every 13 minutes, she wrote in her donation letter.



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