By Jean Falbo-Sosnovich
Register Correspondent
SEYMOUR — Just as everyone wished the rain would go away Wednesday, organizers of the town’s 3rd annual Seymour Pink Day were hopeful to make breast cancer someday go away, too.
“We wear pink as a sign of support, a sign of unity, a sign of hope and a sign of a promise made to eradicate breast cancer,” said Mary Deming, a veteran Seymour High School teacher and founder of the Seymour Pink movement in 2009. “The color brings warmth and a lightness to our outlook, because we do believe in a world without breast cancer.”
Deming lost her mother to breast cancer some 40 years ago, and has rallied the community to fight the disease until a cure is found.
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