RAPID CITY, S.D. — Thursday was the primary evening of the “Rush Fights Most cancers” weekend, beginning with “Paint the Ice.”
The group invited the general public out to color on the ice within the Monument Area with the names of those that have been impacted by most cancers.
It’s the fourteenth yr for the “Rush Fights Most cancers” weekend, which has raised over $300,000 for most cancers care in our space.
The names painted on the ice Thursday will keep on till after Saturday’s sport, permitting them to be honored and remembered all weekend.
“One-hundred-percent of the cash raised by this sport stays native; it advantages our native Most cancers Care Institute; it’s getting used on a regular basis to assist the sufferers…the individuals in our group which might be strolling by their doorways for most cancers therapy,” says Shawn Powers, program supervisor on the Monument Well being Basis.
The “Rush Fights Most cancers” sport is that this Saturday, February 12 at 7:05 p.m. The gamers will put on particular jerseys that will likely be auctioned off after the sport, with all of the proceeds going to the Monument Well being Basis.