Saturday, September 29, 2012
Charges have been filed in connection with the theft of money firefighters raised selling breast cancer awareness T-shirts.
Police have charged an Annapolis man in the theft of more than $1,000 from a safe at the fire station at 620 Taylor Ave. The money belongs to the firefighters' union and is part of a breast cancer awareness fundraiser. Firefighters are selling pink T-shirts from the Taylor Avenue station for $12 each in October to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Fund. "We feel pretty badly about what's happened, but we hope we can sell a few more of the T-shirts and re-coup some of the money," said Battalion Chief John Menassa. "We hope to make some sort of donation to the Susan G. Komen fund, but at this point we are going to do what we can with what we have and go from there." Steve Miller, the on-duty acting EMS supervisor at the Taylor Avenue …
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Annapolis Fire Department will be wearing and selling pink shirts to raise money for Susan G. Komen throughout the month of October.
If you spot an Annapolis firefighter wearing pink next month, it's not because they forgot their uniform. The entire department will be donning pink T-shirts throughout the month of October to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research. "You’ll see us wearing these all month long, so come buy some T-shirts," Fire Chief David Stokes said. Stokes and Lt. Carroll Spriggs presented each member of Annapolis City Council their own pink T-shirt at its Monday night meeting. The shirts cost $12 and all the proceeds go to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Mayor Josh Cohen commended the department and the union for coming together on this project and for the decision to wear pink while on duty. Spriggs said they may offer online …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The third annual METAvivor authors' luncheon raises money for Stage 4 breast cancer research.
Seven area authors will gather in Annapolis to talk about their work, eat lunch and raise money for breast cancer research at the Double Tree Hilton on Sept. 15, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The third annual Metavivor Authors' Luncheon raises money for research for metastatic breast cancer, which means the disease is considered Stage 4 and has metastasized or spread to other parts of the body. "It’s about as far as you can go in terms of the stages. There are no other stages," said Avis Halberstadt, METAvivor treasurer and event organizer. "Thirty percent of men and women who are originally diagnosed with breast cancer have Stage 4, but only 2 percent of the research money goes for advanced breast cancer." That's something that METAvivor, an …
Deb Daly
7:28 am on Sunday, September 30, 2012
What a lowlife! Throw the book at him. Men can get breast cancer, too. Here's hoping... more ›