Good News: Grand Haven Woman's Club models way to help uninsured women in need ...
GRAND HAVEN —The doctors were definitely in the house last Wednesday when the Woman’s Club of Grand Haven and North Ottawa Community Health System hosted a mammogram fundraiser at the Grand Haven Community Center in Grand Haven.
About half a dozen physicians either walked the runway as fashion models, entertained the crowd with music and songs or paraded on stage in decorated hospital gowns that were later auctioned that evening at the center.
The event raised funds for MammAide, a program by the Woman’s Club of Grand Haven that helps uninsured women and men in the Tri-Cities area pay for mammograms.
The fundraiser was called “A Fashionable Evening “ and considered a sold-out success, raising more than $11,000 this year for the program thanks to ticket sales, live and silent auctions and generous donors and volunteers.
“It has gone very well,” said Charlotte Kooi, the club’s president of the annual fundraiser for the MammAide program. “The (club members) work so hard on it. It’s really a beautiful thing to see.
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2. The no-Sunshine State
For 472 straight weeks dating back to Dec. 6, 1982, at least one of the Big Three of Florida college football - Florida State, Florida, and Miami - had been ranked in the Top 25. But it's a low period right now for the trio, and the streak ended this week.
The Seminoles, picked in this space in preseason to play for the national championship, are 2-3 and haven't been in a BCS bowl since 2005. The Gators, winners of two of the last five national titles, are 8-7 in their last 15 games. And the Hurricanes, under former Temple coach Al Golden, are trying to get a program established while fending off the threat of NCAA penalties.
3. Don't mess with Baylor
You won't find Texas, Texas A&M, or Texas Christian leading the way among representatives from the Lone Star State in this week's rankings. The designation goes to No. 20 Baylor for the first time since Oct. 14, 1991.
That paints a bigger bull's-eye on the Bears for Saturday's game with Texas A&M, which desperately wants to knock its opponent completely out of the Top 25 after Baylor filed a court action earlier this year delaying the Aggies' move to the SEC.
T-shirts will be available for $10 and purchasers are encouraged to wear the shirts to the concert in support of the gathering. Proceeds from the T-shirt sale will go towards future Cancer Awareness events. To order a T-shirt by Oct. 26, contact Alex
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