
{"id":7973,"date":"2009-11-12T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2009-11-12T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:10:27","slug":"letter-tickled-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/11\/12\/letter-tickled-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Tickled pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of cancer patients and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a huge THANK YOU goes to Chapel Hill and Carrboro for the outstanding community effort to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Turn the Towns Pink.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In an amazing first-time effort, more than 60 community partners Turned the Towns Pink by decorating their places of business or websites in pink. Some merchants participated with in-store campaigns, others sold specialty items and donated food, drink and auction items in support of UNC Lineberger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tickled Pink and Tickled Pink Twilight events.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From retail stores to restaurants, radio stations to real estate offices, local newspapers to auto dealerships \u00e2\u20ac\u201c these outstanding community partners stepped up to contribute to patient and family-support programs at UNC Lineberger and the N.C. Cancer Hospital.<br \/>\nPeople who have been touched by cancer can tell you that these programs are a source of compassion, information and needed therapies for those facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Many are offered to patients free-of-charge, relieving anxiety at an already stressful time.<\/p>\n<p>What a thrill it was to see Chapel Hill and Carrboro community partners come out in support of programs that truly make a difference to cancer patients every day \u00e2\u20ac\u201c making the first year of Turn the Towns Pink a resounding success. Thank you to everyone who participated.<\/p>\n<p>H. Shelton Earp<br \/>\nDirector, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of cancer patients and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, a huge THANK YOU goes to Chapel Hill and Carrboro for the outstanding community effort to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Turn the Towns Pink.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In an amazing first-time effort, more than 60 community partners Turned the Towns Pink by decorating their places of business or websites in pink&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7973\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}