Hoops vs. Cancer / Giving Back

Check the socks...

During the entire month of January, basketball players, coaches, and officials across the country showed their support for cancer research and cancer patient support by wearing pink. Officials used pink whistles, coaches wore pink shirts, pink ties, and hoop shoes, and players wore special pink uniforms, pink shoelaces, pink warmups, pink wristbands (you get the picture).

At Peoples our varsity basketball teams wore pink. The girls came out on Saturday and, more recently, Tuesday with high pink socks and pink headbands. On Monday the boys wore pink shooting shirts and pink laces in their high tops. To really show our support, we went a step further and decided to give patrons on Monday and Tuesday, the choice of where there entrance fee could go. It could go to the school as usual, or it could go to raise money for the Lamoille Area Cancer Network (LACN). LACN is a non-profit network that assists families in Lamoille County who are battling cancer. Because this is a sickness that affects so many, generousity was extremely high and we were able to raise $432.00 from the ticket sales. The Stein Family, who won the 50/50 raffle Tuesday night, donated the $55.00 from the raffle back to the benefit to give us a grand total of $487.00 to donate to LACN.
Thanks to all who attended and donated.

GO WOLVES