Cade Barker / cade@thereflector.com
Pink featured closely among the many spectators within the stands and on the jerseys of Ridgefield Raptors gamers for Breast Most cancers Consciousness Evening, benefiting the Pink Lemonade Undertaking, on Thursday, July 25.
The Pink Lemonade Undertaking was based in 2010 by a neighborhood doctor husband and spouse duo, Drs. Allen and Cassie Gabriel. Ridgefield’s collegiate wooden bat summer season league crew additionally hosted workers of Waste Connections, which works hand-in-hand with the Pink Lemonade Undertaking.
“So for a $100 donation to our mission and our packages, a Clark County resident who’s a buyer of Waste Connections can get a pink cart (recycle bin),” Pink Lemonade Undertaking CEO Susan Stearns mentioned. “Waste Connections will drop off the pink cart and choose up the blue bin after which a person, truly residential and industrial prospects, can present their assist for our work and for breast most cancers consciousness and proudly exhibit their pink cart.”
The sport resulted in a 12-3 loss for the Raptors towards the Corvallis Knights. However, identical to first responder night time on the Ridgefield Out of doors Recreation Complicated, the true winners of the night had been the beneficiaries of the jersey public sale. The Pink Lemonade Undertaking’s jersey public sale concluded its third yr on July 25, with many within the crowd sporting earlier jerseys they received in public sale.
“We do our work solely due to the assist of native people and companies to assist us do our mission,” Stearns mentioned. “So the Raptors are a superb pal, and we admire the chance to actually speak about breast most cancers. The truth that it impacts 1 in 7 ladies within the Pacific Northwest when the nationwide charges are 1 in 8, and males get breast most cancers, too.”
Stearns burdened the significance of being out locally, educating men and women about their breast well being and indicators of potential most cancers or breast well being considerations, which the Raptors permit throughout a baseball recreation with jerseys worn for a superb trigger.
“We simply love the chance to be out locally and that is all the time a enjoyable night time,” Stearns mentioned.
The Pink Lemonade Undertaking serves southwest Washington and Oregon, with upcoming occasions discovered on its web site, pinklemonadeproject.org/occasions, together with extra data.
Previous to Thursday, the Raptors went on a historic, franchise-record 13-game successful streak however dropped three to the Knights of Corvallis, who sit atop the West Coast League. After the conclusion of the Columbia River Cup towards the Cowlitz Black Bears in Longview, the Raptors journey to Yakima after which conclude their residence season with a three-game collection towards the Springfield Drifters from Friday, Aug. 1, via Sunday, Aug. 4, because the playoff chase heats up. Presently, the Raptors sit in fourth place within the south division at 23-19 after their July 25 recreation.
