Aspen, CO: Nickie's Angels Race for a Cure

At the Starting Line

Heading Out - half or more of us were walking, many with our survivors.

Participants came from all over Colorado and even other states.

Fellow angels in the Race: Lisa, Nickie, Dawn and Billie

Angels on a trail to lovely landscapes...

Soothing, calming, HEALING landscapes, in fact...

Racers coming through the finish line - our time: just over an hour...and Nickie did great!

Under pink hero capes, we wore signs stating that we raced in support of Nickie, and of Jeannine Bartmess (fellow survivor/good friend/encourager), and in memory of Joyce Muhelegger, grandmother of Angels' super-donor Matt Hawley (thank you again, Matt!)

These were the survivors present -we sang a special song as each one received a rose for her/his courage.

A sincere "thank you" to all who donated, and we hope to visit you, dear Aspen, again....

Today, one in eight adult women will hear the words, "you've got breast cancer." Our goal: to make that sentence disappear. Thank you all again and may God bless you!

Our friend Nickie Singleton is in the midst of a battle that no one should have to fight. She's endured chemo, surgery, and now radiation (with more surgery to go) in a fight against breast cancer. Despite the struggle, she has inspired everyone around her by living her usual life, and being her usual self. It's time to celebrate how far she's come in this "race" with a race of our own, striking back at the hideous disease that has come against her, and so many others. On July 18th this year, we took out for the beautiful mountains of Colorado and laced up our racing shoes. We joined the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure in Aspen, and set out to deal breast cancer one good blow for Nickie. And did we ever! Our dreams: a nice day to walk, time together in the lovely, healing beauty of God's wonderful alpine forests, and even raise a few dollars to take with us - a modest $500 goal. Well, when it was over, we'd seen all of this happen and more, witnessing overwhelming generosity for our cause that continues to the day of this posting. Thanks to our dear friends and supporters, the Susan G Komen Foundation will now be $3500 richer because of Nickie's Angels! In fact, because of you, we left the race with a trophy for being the highest fundraising team at the event this year-by quite a margin! Now, that's striking a blow! (Here are our team's donation pages with donor names)
To all of you who donated, Nickie & her Angels would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and we want to assure you that your gift will make a real difference. With your gifts, treatment will be delivered to someone who desperately needs it, and research can continue so that a cure will indeed one day be found for this dreadful disease.
Thank you once again and we hope to be back next year. Join us!