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Downtown Landmarks Go Pink Leading Up to Komen Columbus Race for the Cure ® on May 18

For Immediate Release                                                                For More Information, Contact:
April 30, 2013                                                                                Sarah Irvin Clark (614) 296-4057 

 

 

Downtown Landmarks Go Pink Leading Up to Komen Columbus
Race for the Cure ® on May 18

 

City Hall, other downtown landmarks join LeVeque Tower in tribute to upcoming Race

 

 

WHAT:           Starting May 1, the AEP and Nationwide corporate headquarters, Columbus City Hall, and the home offices of Value City Furniture, Schottenstein Property Group and Schottenstein Stores Corp. on Fifth Avenue will join the LeVeque Tower in going pink in honor of the Komen Columbus Race for the Cure on May 18. The Komen Columbus Race for the Cure is the second largest Race for the Cure in the United States.

WHEN:            Wednesday, May 1 at dusk (NOTE: Columbus City Hall will go pink on April 30)

WHERE:         AEP (1 Riverside Plaza downtown Columbus), Nationwide Insurance (One Nationwide Plaza), Columbus City Hall (90 W. Broad St.), Value City Furniture, Schottenstein Property Group and Schottenstein Stores Corp (4300 E. Fifth Ave.)  

OTHER:          The 21st annual Komen Race for the Cure will be held May 18, 2013, in the heart of downtown Columbus and will finish at the Ohio Statehouse. More than 45,000 people are expected to participate in the event, including some 2,200 breast cancer survivors. 

Breast Cancer Quick Facts: 

  • In Ohio, one case of breast cancer is diagnosed every hour, and one woman dies from breast cancer every five hours.
  • Ohio ranks 32nd in the country for breast cancer incidence and an alarming fourth in the country for breast cancer mortality.
  • If a person is diagnosed in the early stages of breast cancer, the five- year relative survival rate is 98 percent.  

Komen Columbus has raised more than $25 million since it began in 1993; 75 percent of that money stays in its 30-county service area and is used to conduct breast cancer education, screening and treatment programs. The other 25 percent goes to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure to fund global breast cancer research programs. For more information, please call the Komen Columbus office at (614) 297-8155 or visit www.komencolumbus.org.