BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC GOES GOLD IN SEPTEMBER, PINK IN OCTOBER TO SUPPORT FIGHT AGAINST CANCER
After going gold in September to support the fight against childhood cancer, Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative’s buildings, vehicles and employees will go pink during October to raise awareness of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
(courtesy Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative)
This is the third year Bluebonnet has gone gold during September in recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, lighting buildings in gold and putting gold decals on vehicles.
Since 2012, the cooperative has observed National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by lighting member service centers in pink, adding pink ribbon decals to trucks, and giving employees pink hard hats to wear.
Informational handouts and paper pink ribbons with flower seeds embedded in them are available at Bluebonnet’s five member service centers in Bastrop, Brenham, Giddings, Lockhart, and Manor.
(courtesy Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative)
Bluebonnet General Manager Matt Bentke said, “The fight against cancer is one that everyone has experienced through a friend, family member or themselves.” He said cancer is “a disease that affects too many, too often,” adding the cooperative is proud to “be part of the team that will help defeat the disease.”
National nonprofits with helpful information about childhood and breast cancer include the American Childhood Cancer Organization at www.acco.org, the American Cancer Society at www.cancer.org, the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation at https://nationalpcf.org, Ronald McDonald House Charities at www.rmhc.org, CURE Childhood Cancer at www.curechildhoodcancer.org, or the Susan G. Komen Foundation at https://ww5.komen.org.