by Christine Conroy | Jan 25, 2023 | Recent News
We are excited to announce that our 2023 Seymour Pink T-Shirt contest is now LIVE! This year we have increased the prize money to a $1,000 Scholarship if you are the winning designer. All Seymour students of Middle School, High School, or College age are welcome to submit their original artwork designs for consideration of this year’s shirt design award. Make a statement OR send a message about the Fight Against Breast Cancer through your T-shirt design! WHO IS ELIGIBLE? Full-time students living in Seymour, CT (this includes middle and high school students AND college students). Please no professional graphic designers. PRIZE AWARD? $1,000.00 scholarship bursary ENTRY FEE? $5.00 per entry (checks made payable to Seymour Pink, Inc.) DEADLINE? All entries must be submitted no later than Wednesday, March 22, 2023 CONTEST RULES? The applicant must be a SEYMOUR resident. Entrant must submit hand-drawn or computer generated artwork (submit electronic file if computer generated) on an 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper – artwork can be horizontal or vertical and does not have to take up the entire paper. If created electronically and vector artwork is available, please submit vector artwork, along with image files for viewing by non-designers. Artwork must be ORIGINAL. Each entry may use up to 2 COLORS; include Seymour PINK logo and the year. Please keep in mind that the winning entry will be applied to a pale pink colored shirt for this year Fine details in design may not transfer well to the T-shirt. JUDGING? In fairness to all, the artist’s names will be withheld until after the winning entry has been selected. Entries will be judged on concept, and not...
by Christine Conroy | Jan 19, 2023 | Recent News
Seymour Pink, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is pleased to announce its 2023 Event Calendar. Each year, the nonprofit hosts a variety of fundraising and community events including a pasta dinner, gala night, golf tournament and 5k Road Race. Our mission is to unite a community in the fight against breast cancer. Through fundraising efforts, our goal is to fund breast cancer research, provide education and to empower and assist breast cancer victims and their families. The first event will be A Pink Night to Remember held at The Waterview in Monroe, CT on Friday, March 31, 2023 from 6 to 10 pm. This event is a great way for our community to come together and celebrate our mission, honor survivors and enjoy a great night of food, drinks and comradery. Attendees receive a complimentary blush sparkling wine upon arrival and can enjoy a variety of cold and hot hors d’oeuvres and food stations, open bar and beer garden. The hallmark of this event is nearly 100 premium raffles and a silent auction. Tickets go on sale Sunday, February 12th at 12 Noon. Our 14th Annual Pasta Dinner will take place on Monday, April 24, 2023 at The Brookside Inn in Oxford, CT. This is the event that started it all. When founder, Mary Deming, set out to raise funds for her Susan G. Komen walk in 2007, owners Sara and Gary Morgatto agreed to host a pasta dinner to help her fundraising efforts. Other than a brief 2-year hiatus due to the global pandemic, this event has occurred every year since. At this event, what is most special is the raffle baskets...
by Christine Conroy | Jan 10, 2023 | Recent News
This year’s A Pink Night to Remember will take place on Friday, March 31, 2023 once again at the Waterview in Monroe. This premier event offers an evening to celebrate our organization’s mission in bringing a community together in the fight against breast cancer. With the exception of our 2022 event, historically, this event has been held on a Friday evening in March, and we are back to our regular schedule for this event in 2023! We hope you can join us for an important night out. This year’s event will be from 6 PM to 10 PM and offer complimentary cocktails, cold and hot hors d’oeuvres and stations, raffles, door prizes and a silent auction. Upon arriving you’ll check in to the right or left of lobby depending upon your last name, and receive your Door Prize ticket, and signature sparkling glass of pink before heading to your designated table. We take over the entirety of The Waterview with over 500 guests expected to attend, including additional space downstairs for mingling including a beer garden, photo booth and additional food selections. Sponsorships are available through January 31st. Businesses can sponsor this special evening with packages ranging from $500 to $5,000. The sponsorship package can be downloaded from our event page or from our Forms page. More information about this event is located on our 2023 A Pink Night to Remember page which is accessible here, or through the top menu bar under Events. A few photos from our 2022 event are shown below to give you a feel for the spirit of our annual A Pink Night to...
by Christine Conroy | Oct 10, 2022 | Recent News
Our Founder and President Mary Deming and Vice President Collen Colleen Fries were LIVE on Fox61 Monday, October 10, 2022. For Breast Cancer Awareness month we were honored to share the message about our nonprofit organization with the greater Connecticut community. Check out our segment on YouTube...
by Christine Conroy | Oct 5, 2022 | Recent News
Congratulations to our Top 10 Breast Cancer Survivor finishers in our 11th Annual Pounding the Pavement for Pink 5k on October 1, 2022. Place Name Age City Time Pace ===== ===================== === ================== ======= ===== 1 Lynn Valentin 52 Vernon Rockville 27:14 8:46 2 Allison Vallance 42 Trumbull 29:49 9:36 3 Erin Barsevich 54 Shelton 31:22 10:06 4 Kathryn Cavallaro 44 Shelton 32:06 10:20 5 Jaime Matheson 46 Seymour 33:56 10:56 6 Rebecca Gonzalez 47 Westfield 34:05 10:58 7 Sharon Zinni 64 Southbury 34:52 11:14 8 Karin Marinaro 63 East Haven 35:48 11:32 9 Marci White 41 Seymour 35:48 11:32 10 Jennifer Wilson 48 Wallingford 36:14 11:40 This year we had 155 breast cancer survivors register for our event, which is one of the highest counts ever. Both a blessing to have them with us and sorrowful for there to be so many at the same time. But yet, they are here with us as fighters and for that we are...
by Christine Conroy | Oct 3, 2022 | Recent News
It rained…volunteers showed up to work at 5 am… It rained …all our sponsors/vendors arrived to set up. It rained …Adam Rivers from iHeart, the voice of our 5K, arrived. It rained …runners, walkers and spectators assembled. It rained…the honor guard marched to the start line. It rained…Shay Marie Neary sang the National Anthem so beautifully her voice reaching the heavens…and then it STOPPED raining!!! Although the weather forecast told a different story all the way through 1 o’clock in the afternoon, with the start of the race came a stoppage of the rain, as if our loved ones who had fought the fight spread their wings and formed a canopy over us. The strength, fight and determination our breast cancer survivors embody, challenges all of us to do the same in the FIGHT… to NOT QUIT!! On Saturday, October 1, 2022, NO ONE quit! For many, the choice to stay home, because of the rain, was a difficult one to make. I truly believe that everybody wanted to be there, but for some, it wasn’t the right choice this year. For those that couldn’t make it, we still felt your spirit with us. In the end we will all struggle to find the words to describe our experience yesterday. Even collectively, we can’t put it into words. As one breast cancer survivor said to me “you have to be here, to feel it”! To each and every one of you that made the journey yesterday to be with us in person, volunteers, breast cancer survivors, vendors sponsors, runners, walkers, THANK YOU! YOU brought SUNSHINE to a day weather...
by Christine Conroy | Oct 3, 2022 | Recent News
For the month of October we are proud to partner with New Morning Market in Woodbury, CT for the ‘Round Up for a Cause’ program. With community needs continuing to be at the forefront of the mission at New Morning Market, partnering with us during breast cancer awareness month helps further our mission of fighting back against breast cancer and supporting patients and their families through their breast cancer diagnosis. Please join us during the month of October to raise funds to fight breast cancer through Round Up for a Cause. Every time you check out at the register, you have the opportunity to support our organization by rounding up your change. About New Morning Celebrating 50 years of Goodness, New Morning Market has been committed to the good food lifestyle since opening their doors in 1971. Their vision is to become a leader who continually creates an environment that fosters meaningful exchanges of knowledge, services and products to sustain a healthy learning and growing community. Learn more at...
by Christine Conroy | Oct 3, 2022 | Recent News
On September 7th, board members from Seymour Pink presented leaders at The Hewitt Center for Breast Wellness at Griffin Hospital with additional funding for the Bella Blanket program. Seymour Pink presented funds, the third time this year, dedicated solely towards the purchase of Bella Blankets for the comfort of patients receiving their mammograms. Bella Blankets® protective coverlets for mammography can help capture more breast tissue. Cancers that occur at the chest wall may not be visualized if breast tissue is missing from the image. Every millimeter counts™ when looking for clusters of micro-calcifications. Seymour Pink heard about the Bella Blankets being used at Griffin Hospital during breast screenings and the comfort and benefit they provide to patients. The blankets were described as providing invaluable comfort and making an uncomfortable but necessary procedure much more comfortable. For us at Seymour Pink, it was a perfect fit with our mission. Bella Blankets allow the patient to relax and have a better level of comfort, both physically and mentally during their mammograms, acting as a barrier against the cold and hard machine, while also allowing the best images possible to be captured. It’s a win win for patients and medical providers alike. Griffin Hospital has honored Seymour Pink with a special plaque found at the Center About Bella Blankets Bella Blankets protective coverlets act as a barrier between the patient’s skin and the receptor plate to help prevent breast from sticking or tearing as the patient steps out of compression. Less skin tears, less patients avoiding annual mammograms, better for overall breast health. About The Hewitt Center The Hewitt Center for Breast...
