[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18717]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            RECOGNITION OF HOT PINK PITTSBURGH DANCE RECITAL

   Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the 
fundraiser Hot Pink Pittsburgh, a collaboration of Family Health 
Council and Pink Ribbons Project Dancers in Motion Against Breast 
Cancer, which will increase the awareness of breast cancer, its 
treatment and prevention. The event will raise funds to provide 
essential health care services to a growing number of uninsured women 
in Pennsylvania.
  Hot Pink Pittsburgh will take the stage of the Byham Theater on 
October 2, 2000 to showcase performers and increase community awareness 
and appreciation. Dancers from the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Dance 
Alloy, Shona Sharif African Dance and Drum Ensemble and Hope Stone 
Dance as well as members of the Pittsburgh Symphony will donate their 
performances for the benefit.
  This event will help Family Health Council provide annual exams, 
breast and cervical cancer screening and health education. Early 
detection and treatment gives women their best chance of breast cancer 
survival, while cervical cancer is preventable with screening and 
treatment.
  Family Health Council, founded in 1971, serves more than 100,000 
women and their families in western Pennsylvania every year. As a non-
profit organization you provide gynecological and obstetric care; 
breast and cervical cancer screening; comprehensive nutrition services; 
nationally recognized teen pregnancy prevention resources; domestic and 
international adoption; and applied research in women's health. Family 
Health Council also administers a network of more than 20 community-
based health care organizations. Your organization is supported by 
patient fees, private and public grants, and individual gifts.
  I commend the efforts of the Family Health Council and Pink Ribbon 
Project Dancers in Motion Against Breast Cancer as well as those so 
dedicated to increasing the awareness of breast cancer, its treatment 
and prevention.

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