The Pink Rainbow Luncheon, featuring guest speaker Anita Shreve, takes place Wednesday, October 6, from 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., at Belle Mer on Goat Island to benefit women with newly diagnosed cancer. The cost is $100 a ticket. For more information, email Kim Herrlinger at summerwind590@aol.com. Individual tickets and sponsorship opportunities available; for more information, please visit ThePinkRainbow.com.
The Pink Rainbow Luncheon will benefit the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Rhode Island Hospital, The Adele R. Decof Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Miriam Hospital, and the
Comprehensive Cancer Center at Newport Hospital. The project's mission is to bring comfort and hope to women newly diagnosed with cancer by funding projects such as the Comfort Gift Bags, support groups, and educational resources.
The Pink Rainbow Comfort Gift Bag is filled with approximately 20 items ranging from inspirational books to music to a satin pillowcase. It is designed to bring a newly diagnosed woman
comfort, peace, and hope as she begins her healing journey. We anticipate that 400 comfort bags will be distributed annually as a result of The Pink Rainbow Luncheon.
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Anita Shreve, a recipient of the John P. Marquand Prize in American Literature, is the author of 16 novels, including the international best seller The Pilot's Wife, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection. She also authored Resistance, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, Testimony, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for the Prestigious Orange Prize. Her novel Rescue is forthcoming. Anita, treated for breast cancer seven years ago, lives in New England with her family.
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