Gold Medal Performance: Jacksonville Repeats as Top Row for the Cure
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Photo Courtesy: Eric Rousseau Photography Members of the 2008 gold medal winning U.S. women’s Olympic eight and Jacksonville Row for the Cure organizers Sandy Silverstein and Sandy Deardoff (left) present a check for $142,530 to the North Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Bolles School. For the second consecutive year, the Jacksonville rowing community raised over $100,000, earning the distinction as the year's top fundraising Row for the Cure in the world. Among the top fundraisers were Bolles coxswain Jake Mendelson who raised over $10,000. Over 250 north Florida rowers, members of the local professional sports community and Winn Dixie Chairman and CEO Peter Lynch were on hand for the row. |
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Statistically speaking, one out of every eight women you know will be diagnosed with breast cancer. That means in 2008 alone, more than 200,000 family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers will struggle to avoid becoming another statistic—one of the 40,000 women who die annually due to breast cancer. By hosting a regatta at your club or signing up for a race in your city, you will help raise funds to support the search for a cure.
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Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Read more.
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Kathy Frederick