The 2012 Susan G. Komen CENLA Race For the Cure® is excited
to announce that the CENLA Race will be held in downtown Alexandria on October
20, 2012. Race organizers are currently seeking
2012 race sponsors and volunteers.
The 2011 race raised more than $400,000 with over 5,500 people
registering for race day events. This year organizers are hoping to have more
than 7,000 registered participants by race day.
Since seventy-five percent of all funds raised stay in the seven parish
area surrounding central Louisiana, the 2012 Race will make an enormous impact
for survivors, caregivers, and family members through local grants awarded from
the money raised.
Laura Bryan has been selected as this year’s
Honorary Survivor Chairperson. Each year
local race organizers choose an honorary chairperson who has battled breast
cancer and can bring awareness and passion to the fight to end the disease
forever.
Laura was born and raised in England to a military
family with one brother and one sister. After living throughout the U.S., she
settled here in Louisiana 15 years ago. She has been married to Jacob Bryan
who she describes as her “rock”, for the past nine
years, and they are the “parents” of 2 furry children, their Great Pyrenees,
Sampson and Golden Retriever, Buck. Laura works as a Mortgage Specialists who
enjoys food and music, traveling to attend music festivals throughout the
country each year. She is also a very active community supporter and volunteer
serving in leadership positions in the Junior League of Alexandria, Chamber of Commerce,
Alexandria Zoo, and Krewe of Mariposa. She is also an active member of Cabrini
Hospital’s Pink Ribbon Club Breast Cancer Support Group. Laura is a 3 year
breast cancer survivor having triumphed through mastectomy, reconstruction,
chemotherapy, radiation, and lymphedema.
Laura states, “During everything…I never stopped smiling and never
blamed God. Life is always full of challenges and God never promised us
tomorrow. So my thought is that if you live every day like it’s your last here
on earth, then there are no regrets!”
Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen,
she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that
promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
which launched the global breast cancer movement. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the global
leader in the fight against breast cancer through the funding of innovative
research and community-based health programs.
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