by Trudy Ginsburg | May 5, 2020 | Recent News
Since mid March, life as we know it has drastically changed! Each and everyone of us has a new meaning of what stress feels and looks like. Many of us have been fortunate to remain healthy, yet here in Connecticut the number of us diagnosed with Covid-19 and the loss of life is shocking! Additionally, many have lost their jobs, many have had their businesses close either temporarily or permanently. Once again, the strength of this community, the heart of this community has risen above it. We have turned to our neighbor and they’ve been there for each of us, even when it wasn’t easy for them to do so. Perhaps that is the silver lining in these incredibly difficult, disturbing, frightening times! Individuals, businesses and nonprofits such as Seymour Pink have shared in these hardships. We here at Seymour Pink know how hard this community has been hit. For us our major source of income, our fundraisers, have had to be canceled or postponed indefinitely. However, Our mission to financially assist those burdened by the breast cancer diagnosis has not stopped. We continue to financially assist the men and women who have been burdened by the breast cancer diagnosis and the additional impact it has had on their income. Please know that we here at Seymour Pink are sensitive to the financial devastation many have experienced as a result of COVID-19. This coming Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5-May 6, The Great Give 2020 will take place. It is a 36 hour online giving campaign. Seymour Pink will be participating in this event, in hopes that any possible donations...
by Mary Deming | Apr 28, 2020 | Recent News
Our Annual Seymour Pink Pasta Dinner was scheduled for tonight…it is a very special night when we recognize and honor our many loved ones who have heard the breast cancer diagnosis. Special raffles donated in honor and memory of those who have fought the FIGHT are raffled off with a little story about each loved one! Seymour Pink has its roots in this fundraiser! It is ALWAYS a sell out evening hosted by Sara and Gary Morgatto of Brookside Inn. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, this is yet another one of our fundraisers that has had to be put on the “back burner” for a while. However, there is one event that takes place this night that we CAN celebrate tonight. Each year we ask students to submit artwork for the Annual Seymour Pink T-shirt contest. The winner of the T-shirt contest along with his/her design is revealed this night and is given a $500 scholarship. The design is printed on over 2000 tee shirts! So, although we cannot hold our pasta dinner and cannot celebrate our breast cancer warriors, we can reveal, tonight, the new design and the winner of this contest. Congratulations goes to Olivia Kick! When Olivia submitted her design she shared the meaning of her design. She gives credit to her grandmother! Her grandmother was a nurse. Her grandmother always said to her, “HOPE is the big idea and if you don’t have hope, you don’t have anything“. She said the ribbon with people walking toward it reminded her of HOPE, the hope her grandmother spoke of! Congratulations Olivia your message is a powerful message...
by Mary Deming | Mar 27, 2020 | Recent News
In trying, challenging times, we all look for ways to ease stress, to bring comfort and hope for a better day. In an effort to join TOGETHER, even though we cannot gather together, Seymour Pink will be offering these complimentary lawn signs as a way for us to be united in our resolve, that TOGETHER we will get through these difficult and trying times! EACH day brings us opportunities to come together in SPIRIT, to continue to be there for others by spreading HOPE and PROMISE that on the other side of this, we will be TOGETHER again, joining hands and hearts as one! It is our hope that these lawn signs will bring all of us HOPE and PROMISE that TOGETHER we will get thru this more UNITED than ever. Our lawn signs are FREE (however donations will be kindly accepted) -(delivery of signs will begin on or about this coming Wednesday April 1st) -We will deliver to your front lawn- no contact -LIMITED supply in our initial production -If you live outside of the Lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Seymour, Beacon Falls, Oxford) we will set up a pick up location with designated day and time-practicing ALWAYS our social distancing (details for pick up to follow) Be safe, be healthy, we will get through this TOGETHER! ****These signs have been sponsored by a very generous ANONYMOUS donor! Thank you for your generosity! We also want to thank Grand Concepts of Seymour for their partnership in this idea. PLEASE contact us at seymourpink09@aol.com to reserve your lawn sign. We will get through this...
by Mary Deming | Mar 22, 2020 | Recent News
First, and most importantly, I hope you are doing well and safe during this incredibly difficult time of uncertainty. We are experiencing such a rapid change in our normal day-to-day activities. Our typical day to day routines have been altered drastically. For most, if not all of us, nothing seems “normal.” For Seymour Pink our mission has not changed. We will continue to financially assist those victimized by the breast cancer diagnosis as best we are able to do. Unfortunately, with the social distancing that we MUST all practice, our income will be greatly impacted over these next few months. As a result, so will our available funds we rely on to help financially assist our breast cancer patients As much as we would like nothing more than to return to hosting our fundraisers, in order to raise funds to support our mission, practicing social distancing and the guidelines set in place by Federal, State and Local officials is an ABSOLUTE MUST! Although these are difficult times, unpredictable times, they are TEMPORARY times! EACH day brings us opportunities to come together in SPIRIT, to continue to be there for others by spreading HOPE and PROMISE that on the other side of this, we will be TOGETHER again, joining hands and hearts as one! To all of our incredibly dedicated volunteers, supporters, sponsors, and our brave and courageous breast cancer survivors, we are forever grateful for your commitment to Pink. From all of us at Seymour Pink, to each and every one of you, may you stay safe, and healthy! Mary Deming Founder/President Seymour Pink, Inc. www.seymourpink.com...
by Mary Deming | Oct 6, 2019 | Recent News
I think there are 3000 people waking up this morning, like me, trying to find the words to describe the sights and sounds of yesterday and their impact on each of us. For me, it’s IMPOSSIBLE! No words can touch yesterday! We had need of 3 generators yesterday. But we had a fourth, YOU! YOUR presence yesterday was the most powerful Generator of all! Your presence sparked support, human kindness, courage, love and so much belief in the FIGHT against this barbaric disease! This event can NOT happen without a COMMUNITY UNITED in the FIGHT. So many people make this happen! Our AMAZING volunteers, My Incredibly DEDICATED board members and officers! My media director, Trudy Ginsburg, for always being there to “calm the waters” and get our mission out there! Dawn Supranovich and her “let’s get it done” crew! All of our VERY Generous sponsors (we had all of “veteran” sponsors back and 5 new ones)!!! The donations of food (120 pizzas from Rose’s Family Restaurant, 60 ponds of bananas from Stop and Shop, over 80 gallons of Starbucks coffee and Hot chocolate and 1600 cake pops. Lord only knows how many cups of that incredible ice cream from Ice Cream Emergency? How about the Original Greek yogurt from Stani Dairy… now that was delicious… we need to get that yogurt carried by our local grocery stores!!! Bakery on Main donated over 1200 bags of cranberry maple flavored granola!!! Dragonflies Flora for designing and donating 175 corsages for our breast cancer survivors! Caspari for donating lovely gifts for our breast cancer survivors! The police department was there in full...
by Trudy Ginsburg | Sep 7, 2019 | Recent News
Connecticut ranks #2 in the country for breast cancer diagnosis – and yet there still is no breast cancer awareness license plate. Seymour Pink is working to change that. To get this new plate to be, we need to provide the DMV with 400 completed registration forms… we already have 100. Join our mission...
by Trudy Ginsburg | Jul 14, 2019 | Recent News
You can support Seymour Pink every time you shop on Amazon by going to smile.amazon.com and selecting Seymour Pink as your charity. Prime Day is a great time to get your deals and support Seymour Pink in the...
by Trudy Ginsburg | May 12, 2019 | Recent News
Banner Renewal Forms for 2019 are now available. Click this link to download. Forms are due back by June 30th to guarantee space before we allow new banners to be bought. Forms for NEW banners will be available starting July...
