Cancer Awareness Night
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TULARE — Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) seniors at Hitchcock-Tulare High School and the school’s volleyball team raised money to create care packages for patients at the Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen.
“It was an idea for Pink Night,” said FCCLA instructor Ashley Johnson. “The girls wanted to focus not just on breast cancer, but all types of cancer. Do a cancer awareness thing.”
Senior FCCLA members Grace Erickson, Bailey Cole and Dawsyn Otto, organized a Cancer Awareness Night and Chinese Auction fundraiser held in September during a home volleyball game. They also sold bracelets printed with “No one fights alone.”
Prior to the start of the game each volleyball player presented a flower to someone in the crowd who had survived cancer, or to a family member of someone who lost their life to cancer.
“To get donations for the auction we asked all the girls on the volleyball team to donate a basket,” Erickson said. “We ended up with a lot of baskets and a lot of variety. We raised $1,400; that was a big success for us.”
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Shown at Cancer Awareness Night with tickets for a fundraising Chinese Auction are Hitchcock-Tulare School FCCLA members, from left, Dawsyn Otto, Grace Erickson and Bailey Cole. Above, the trio is shown with some of the care packages they created with funds raised for patients at the Avera Cancer Institute in Aberdeen.