Area women walk for cancer
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Megan Clark Erin Melton Anderson, Beth Comstock, Tylan Nelson, Jennifer Thorne and Beth Heller (from left) participated in the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure event held in Seattle last week. The group raised more than $15,000 for cancer research, and walked 60 miles over three days.
Anyone walking or driving through the Seattle metropolitan area this past weekend might have spied some colorful birds from Wrangell.
The “Blue-Footed Boobies” Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure team recently returned to Wrangell after completing a sixty-mile three-day walk through Seattle and environs. The four members of the team, which picked up a spare member from Juneau, raised more than $15,000 in sponsorships for the event, which raises funds for the Susan G. Komen breast cancer research fund.
The group’s colorful name came from event’s tradition of working the slang word for b...
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