10/15/12 - Pink Week, being celebrated to increase awareness for breast cancer and raise funds for the cause, is taking place all this week in the Brighton Area Schools. Most, but not all, of the activities will take place at Brighton High School. The BHS Leadership Class has organized all the activities, including the sale of pink T-shirts, a scavenger hunt by school faculty on Thursday, a pink tailgate party before the Friday night football game and a survivors' walk during the game with walkers wearing cancer survivor white sashes. In addition, the Brighton High School Marching Band will be sporting pink gloves during the game and the football players will be wearing pink wristbands. A movie night will be held in the field house after the game. Among other events taking place, there will be a raffle of donated items and a silent auction will be held each day during high school lunch hours, with the public invited to come and bid on items. Items to be auctioned off include hunting and fishing trips, tickets to the Michigan-Michigan State football game and four tickets for any performance at the Fox Theater in Detroit, the latter prize donated by Little Caesar's. Prizes have also been donated by school staff and raffle prizes were donated by Brighton merchants. Scranton Middle School and Maltby Intermediate School are also having pink T-shirt sales all week and plan other related activities. Brighton elementary students will be asked to wear pink clothing on Friday. Park says even the love-it-or-hate-it statue called "Decision Pending" at the Mill Pond (also known as the Ugly Naked Guy) will be outfitted in a pink T-shirt for the week. Proceeds from all the events will go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. (TT/JK)
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