Think Pink: 5 ways to help fight breast cancer

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Break out your pink!

October is breast cancer awareness month, a time to help raise funds to fight breast cancer and increase awareness about early detection.

Here you'll find some events around the Emerald Coast that will help you with both of those goals!

1. Participate in Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer is an annual event that raises funds and awareness to fight breast cancer.

It will be held on Oct. 17 at Uptown Station, 99 Eglin Parkway N.E. in Fort Walton Beach.

Registration will open at 8 a.m. The noncompetitive 3.1-mile walk will start at 9 a.m.

You can help at this event by starting or joining a team and raising funds, sponsoring a team or walker, or volunteering. Learn more or create your team at www.makingstrides.acsevents.org.

Funds raised at this event go to breast cancer research and programs. Last year, more than 5,000 participants raised more than $125,000.

2. Volunteer.

Volunteers are needed for these American Cancer Society programs:

-- Road to Recovery -- This program pairs cancer patients with a driver who can take them to and from treatment.

--Look Good Feel Better -- This workshop helps women deal with some of the physical side effects of breast cancer and treatment with things like makeup tutorials and tips on what to do when facing hair loss.

--Reach to Recovery -- This program pairs people facing breast cancer or a possible diagnosis and their families with a survivor.

Call 244-3813 and ask for Diane Maldonado to volunteer.

3. Have fun at Pinktoberfest.

Help to fund mammograms while also having fun at Pinktoberfest.

The festival, sponsored by the Pink Pirates, will be held from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Oct. 10 in Navarre Park.

There will be live music, craft and food vendors, raffles and a silent auction.

4. Tee up.

- Golf at the 3rd Annual Fore Her Golf Outing at Oct. 10 at Emerald Bay Golf Club in Destin.

Check in and registration begins at 8 a.m. and the shotgun tee off is at 9 a.m. Cost is $85 per player; $340 per team.

All proceeds will benefit Fore Her, a non-profit that provides financial assistance to breast cancer patients.

There will also be entertainment by David Seering, food samples, hole-in-one prizes, breakfast before tee off provided by Sunset Bay Cafe, lunch after the outing, a silent auction and more.

- Join the Windswept Dunes Charity Golf Tournament for National Breast Cancer FoundationOct. 10.

The tournament starts at 10 a.m. at Windswept Dunes Golf Club, 11 Clubhouse Drive in Freeport. The $65 entry includes golf, range use and lunch.

- There are prizes for any holes-in-one, 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, and for the most spirited cart.

5. Eat and drink.

- Taste a selection of rose wine for $10 at Fonville Press, 147 West Garza Lane in Alys Beach, on Oct. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. There will also be light bites and live music. Proceeds benefit breast cancer awareness. The restaurant will feature a special tasting menu incorporating can-cer-fighting ingredients throughout October. There will also be pink-themed treats at Alys Beach businesses: a cup of coffee at Fonville Press, craft cocktail at Caliza, donut at Charlie's, and mixed berry funnel cake at Piper's Kitchen.

- Standing Up to Breast Cancer Dinner: Join Fort Walton Beach Medical Center and Twin Cities Hospital for a free dinner on Oct. 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. promoting awareness, prevention and survivorship. It will be held at the Holiday Inn on Okaloosa Island, 1299 Miracle Strip Parkway. All proceeds will go to support Making Strides Against Breast Cancer and Relay for Life. Seating is limited! Call Consult-a-Nurse to reserve your seat at 855-614-7274.

- Order a glass of Marques de Caceres Rosado rose or the Hibiscus Lime Cooler at any Tommy Bahama Restaurant & Bar, and $1 of the purchase will benefit the Garden of Hope and Courage.

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