Light Up the Night — Celebrating the Fight Against Breast Cancer

On Friday, September 28th, several Girl Scout troops from Bristol helped to participate in Light Up the Night, the 9th annual Illumination Under the Stars. The night included some special speakers as well as musical numbers. After the ceremony, they recognized breast cancer survivors by having the Girl Scouts give them each a flower. Everyone then walked through the luminaries after the overhead lights were turned off. As the survivors left the field, the Girl Scouts gave each one a Bottle of Hope made the scouts. A bottle of hope is a wish jar decorated with polymer clay that a breast cancer survivor had started to make while in the hospital. Her story is included in the link.

Maureen Lutz was the guest speaker for the evening. She was deeply moved to see the large number of Girl Scouts and other young women in the audience. Maureen is the creator of the Necessitites Bag- a care package for mastecomy patients. She collects men's sleeveless shirts, wet wipes, and fruit-flavored Livesavers. Girl scouts also collected donations for this cause.

All of the girls did an excellent job, and even more were not there that night but helped in making the Bottles of Hope or collecting donations for the Necessities Bags. They even made it on the evening news that night! The highlight of the night, for me anyway, was watching one of my scouts honor her mother with a pink flower recognizing her success over breast cancer.