Second Annual Bayou Region Race for the Cure® to be Held October 23 Lace up your running shoes. It's time to Race for the Cure®! The Bayou Region Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is pleased to announce that the Second Annual Bayou Region Race for the Cure® is scheduled for Saturday, October 23, 1999 at 9 am in Peltier Park. Post-race entertainment will be provided by Charmaine Neville. The 5K race, which raised over $50,000 last year, is expected to attract more than 2,000 runners and walkers this year. Up to 75 percent of the proceeds will be used to fund local breast cancer projects and 25 percent directly funds national research. Funds raised by the 1998 Bayou Region Race for the Cure® funded several projects in our community, including: Survivor to Survivor Communication Project; Breast Cancer Education Program for 8th grade girls; On Her Side Program providing purchasing assistance for breast forms and brassieres through Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center; Lymphedema Education Project; Mom and Me Program for African American mothers and daughters; Choices interactive computer diagnosis system; Breast Cancer Interactive Web Site and the Sister Reach Project for African American Women. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is a non-profit corporation which was founded in 1982 by Nancy Brinker to honor the memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died of breast cancer at the age of 36. Seventeen years later, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is credited as the nation's leading catalyst in the fight against breast cancer. For more information on the Bayou Region Race for the Cure® or the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, please call 504/493.4700. return to list of archived press releases