6/13/14 - Thursday night the 6th annual Pink Party event took the streets of downtown Howell. The event is touted as a mini Pink Mardi Gras featured giveaways, sidewalk shopping, food, wine and food tastings. A ragtime band and barber shop quartet performed as pink pirates, pink witches and pups dressed in pink strolled along Grand River Avenue in support of breast cancer awareness. Several groups made their way through the crowd in search of this yearâs Pink Party Queen. Kerrie Martin a 10 year survivor from Howell was diagnosed with Breast Cancer at 22. Martinâs mother is a 15 years Breast Cancer survivor. Martin is the leader of a large group of ribbon wielding hooligans and tells WHMIâ¦her groups Pink About It, Pink About It Too and Still Pinking About It are made up of 27 women, many of them survivors. The group's primary goal is to raise awareness and support the event while having a great time. Master of Ceremonies, Pinckney Pirate Rick Beaudin, crowned Tisha Mackie of Hartland Queen of the Pink Party for 2014. Mackie, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in November, brought 24 friends to the event. The group arrived in a stretch pink Cadillac. The event is held each year in downtown Howell to help raise funds for breast cancer treatment and research. Money raised this year will be used to help purchase a high-tech table for breast cancer biopsies at St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital. (LR/JK)
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