BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC GOING GOLD IN SEPTEMBER, PINK IN OCTOBER TO FIGHT CANCER

  

Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative will don new colors in September and October in an effort to raise cancer awareness.

Next month, the cooperative will have its buildings, vehicles and employees decked out in gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.  When the calendar shifts to October, gold will give way to pink to put the focus on National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

This is the second year Bluebonnet has celebrated Childhood Cancer Awareness Month by illuminating its buildings in gold light, decorating its vehicles with gold decals, and handing out gold ribbon pins and temporary tattoos to members.  Employees will also hand out gold rubber bracelets that say “Because kids can’t fight cancer alone”.

Bluebonnet has observed Breast Cancer Awareness Month since October 2012, lighting up its member service centers in pink, adding pink ribbon decals to its trucks, handing out pink ribbons in the communities it serves, and donning pink hard hats and t-shirts to remind everyone of the efforts to fight breast cancer.

Informational handouts and paper pink ribbons with embedded flower seeds will be handed out at Bluebonnet’s member service centers in Brenham, Giddings, Bastrop, Lockhart and Manor.

Bluebonnet General Manager Matt Bentke said the cooperative hopes its efforts in September and October “contribute to the greater cause of finding the cure for childhood and breast cancer”.

National nonprofits with helpful information about cancer include the American Childhood Cancer Organization, www.acco.org, the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org, the National Cancer Institute’s website at www.cancer.gov, CURE Childhood Cancer at www.curechildhoodcancer.org, the Susan G. Komen Foundation at www.komen.org, the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation, https://nationalpcf.org, or the nearest Ronald McDonald house in your region, www.rmhc.org.