Round Rock ISD supports breast cancer awareness campaign

By Community Impact Newspaper Staff Thursday, 29 October 2009

ROUND ROCK — October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and as all things in Austin turn pink, Round Rock ISD employees are doing their part to raise awareness and funds for cancer research.

A group of RRISD employees has formed a team for the Susan G. Komen Austin Race for the Cure on Nov. 1 at the Domain in Austin. More than 50 employees, a mix of breast cancer survivors and those who have been touched by breast cancer, have joined the team to raise more than $2,100, which does not include the $30 participation fee per person. The team has been sponsored by RockSports, a locally owned print screening and signs company, which will provide special RRISD Team t-shirts to all participants.

The Brushy Creek Elementary community has organized several fundraisers this year to benefit cancer research initiatives. A group of teachers and employees at the school have made plans to travel to Dallas for a 3-day, 60-mile walk benefitting the Breast Cancer Foundation and Susan G. Komen Foundation. The 10-person group had to collect $2,300 per person in order to take part in the walk.

Brushy Creek students and educators organized an event in which school employees bought $5 tickets allowing them to wear jeans on a school day, raising a total of $940. P.E. teacher Charles Wilkerson sponsored another benefit, helping students prepare tamales with supplies from his tamale business for a sale that raised $200

To donate to the Brushy Creek Elementary Breast Cancer 3-Day team, visit www.the3day.org/goto/brushycreeksolesistas.