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Armwood Seniors Wear Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
It was Senior Night at Armwood High School on Oct. 5 at Lyle Flagg Stadium, where Armwood defeated the Sickles for the football team's fifth victory of the season. It was a time, too, to wear pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The seniors at Armwood High School are going pink this month for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, selling pink T-shirts in support of the cause to find a cure for cancer.
Those T-shirt, sportintg the words, "Armwood Hawks Believe" were worn by seniors Oct. 5 at the Lyle Flagg Stadium, where the Armwood Hawks football team took to the field against the Sickles Gryphons.
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"We sold the shirts today, with 10 percent of the proceeds going to Susan G. Komen [for the Cure]," said senior Heather Stephens, one of three captains for Armwood's varsity cheerleading squad.
Why sell the shirts to support the cause of cancer awareness?
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"Because everybody deserves to live," said cheerleading captain Lexie Martin, also a senior.
The third captain, Simone Girard, is a junior.
"This is not something to be taken lightly," she said. "It nees to be taken seriously, the fight for a cure."
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