In honor and recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Merit Health Natchez is leading the fifth annual community-wide campaign to Paint Natchez Pink on Friday, October 20, and we invite you to participate.
You have the power to spread hope and awareness in Natchez on this day. ListenUpYall Media, along with 18 local businesses are working with Merit Health Natchez to offer you or your business/ organization an opportunity to be a part of helping build community unity throughout the month of October by coming together to bring awareness of the importance of fighting breast cancer in its earliest stages. Whether you are a home owner, restaurateur, business owner, retail or industry employer, check out these ideas to help turn Natchez Pink throughout the month:
- Decorate your home or store windows with a pink display.
- Hold a “street” contest for Best Pink Window display.
- Insert pink light bulbs in porch lights.
- Hang strands of pink lights.
- Have a pink pumpkin decorating contest at your business.
- Use special scripts to remind customers to get their annual mammograms.
- Use pink chalk to write messages of hope or honor co-workers battling breast cancer.
- Tie pink ribbons around trees in and around your neighborhoods and businesses.
- Salons could offer specials on pink colors/products on this day.
- Restaurants feature pink drinks or food on this day.
- Attend the official reading of the Paint Natchez Pink Proclamation to be held October 20 on the bluff at 6:00 p.m.
- Anything else to promote Breast Cancer Awareness at your business, home, organization!
If you or your business would like to become a Pink Participant, it is absolutely FREE to participate. If you become a participant, your business will receive a Pink Participant sign to display, as well as a limited number of Paint Natchez Pink t-shirts for your employees to wear to work on Thursday, October 20!
The Pink Participant Enrollment Form, as well as more information on this exciting day, can be found here…
Paint Natchez Pink Participant Information 2022
The deadline to complete this form and be included is Thursday, October 6!
Merit Health Natchez will have a Community Health and Safety Fair on October 20 at the Natchez Grand Hotel from 4 – 6 p.m. This free event will showcase helpful fitness, health and wellness information. Immediately following the fair, we will be on the Natchez Bluff behind the hotel. Mayor Dan Gibson will kick off the festivities, which will include refreshments, music and photo opportunities in our GIANT pink chair! Most importantly, it will be a time to support and honor those in our community who are valiantly fighting breast cancer and those who have conquered their fight. It will also be a time to remember those who lost their battle.
We hope you will consider participating throughout the month and attend the events planned for October 20. We want our community to see firsthand the commitment and support of not only our hospital, but other local businesses and individuals, for this unique and fun way to create breast cancer awareness.
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