By Derek Kane:
Get ready to test your Buffalo street cred in an Amazing Race style scavenger hunt to win great prizes all while raising money for Roswell Park.
Find a partner, grab a camera and sign up for the WNY Hunt for the Cure where you'll solve clues, map your course, complete fun challenges, and discover Buffalo's history, quirks, nooks and crannies. Perfect for everyone from young to old, walker to marathoner.
Worried you won't know the answers? You can use the internet, phone a friend, ask a stranger--whatever it takes!
Take it from some past contestants that said of 2009's event, "A great race, a great cause and a great time. We will be back!"
Great cause, curing cancer, but why not more *prevention*: "less of it in the first place" . . . less to *cure*? I suggest that Race participants earmark registration fee and donations for “research and advocacy about environmental links to WNY cancer.” (And not just for safe targets like tanning beds and tobacco.) It is time to use RPCI’s power and reputation & focus on true *prevention*, not just lucrative early detection and treatment. Pay back the hospitality and millions of dollars WNY has given RPCI for decades. (All those "Rides for Roswell", recent "10 million donors", tens & hundreds of thousands per cancer patient, and huge NY State taxpayer subsidies.) The Breast Cancer Network of WNY has gone on record against Hydrofracking and will give a seminar on breast Cancer and the Environment on November 5. What about RPCI? We need its vast resources (and donors) to make any real change in WNY cancer rates. PS: I am caregiver for a current Roswell patient who had no risk factors except having been brought up in WNY.