Way to Paint Canada Pink Ottawa!

It's been a few weeks since Paint Canada Pink Week in Ottawa but here are some fantastic photos taken by Amy Symes Photography. She was able to capture all the events and we are so thankful to have her as the official photographer for Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's CIBC Run for the Cure Ottawa-Gatineau. Her photos say it all (please visit her blog)...wonderful week and lots of local support. Thanks to Samantha Testa for the music and Amy Symes for the photos:

Paint Canada Pink Week 2011!

It's been a year and here we are...Paint Canada Pink Week is back and this time it's the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's 25th anniversary! Are you ready to Paint Canada Pink? June 24 to June 30th is Paint Canada Pink week in Ottawa-Gatineau and marks 100 days until the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure on Oct 2nd, 2011! Here's some the week's worth of great events that everyone is invited to:

In our community Beyond Events and other fantastic local businesses are Painting Canada Pink to support creating a future without breast cancer.

Other special support from the local community include Lisa MacLeod, MPP and Councillor Marianne Wilkinson, and a Samantha Testa, a young Ottawa singer who will perform for us on June 28th.

We are challenging you to be creative about what YOU can do help PAINT CANADA PINK and get others talking about and fundraising for the Run for the Cure. Join our facebook page: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure - Ottawa-Gatineau or follow us on twitter: @RunfortheCureOG

Official Kick off of Paint OTTAWA Pink Week

Sunday July 18th marked the official kick off of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Paint Canada Pink Week 2010. As the Promotions Coordinator for PCPW, we chose to host our events at the Hazeldean Mallto create awareness and initiate individuals and teams to register and begin their fundraising!

We had a great afternoon warming up with Wayne our infamous Pink Fairy, admiring the beautifully designed cake (with a life size running shoe) created by It's a Matter of Cake, and enjoying the company of our special guest speakers MPP Lisa MacLeod and Councillor Marianne Wilkinson. The coffee was plenty at the Second Cup and the sound system and DJ were generously provided by Quality Entertainment.

I have to give a shout out to K6 Media for printing off some PINK running shoe prints to decorate the mall floors that led people to our booth. They were a lot of fun and kids loved jumping on them like hopscotch!

I met some inspiring people, some survivors and others who know of someone dealing with it now. The goal of this week's events was to reach more people and inspire local businesses to show support by thinking pink! We had a Paint your storefront pink contest sponsored by KISS FM and Y101 - to find out which businesses participated this year pls visit our CBCF - Ottawa- Gatineau facebook page.

We were also mentioned on the local CTV news and Metro Ottawa came out for an article they printed the very next day.


Our official photographer for the week is Julie Bazinet - many thanks for the photos!