Half-price registration for Breast Cancer Walk

H.O.P.E. for a Day is offering half-price registration for the Sept. 28 Breast Cancer Walk until Wednesday. Registration forms may be picked up at the Mike Daniel Recreation Center on Lafayette Parkway or Pc Sign and Screen on Hill Street, and also are available online at www.bfflhopeforaday.com. The walk will be held on Sept. 28 at 8 a.m. It will be a 10-mile walk around downtown LaGrange. Lunch will be at LaGrange College and ending ceremony will be at the square. The H.O.P.E. for a day walk is held in conjunction with Paint the Town Pink.

Care baskets for breast cancer patients

The Troup County breast cancer support group, Breast Friends for Life, is in need of new or gently used baskets. BFFL makes gift baskets for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Baskets need to have a handle. No Christmas or Easter baskets. Baskets may be dropped off with Wanda Lowe at Enoch Callaway Cancer Center, 111 Medical Drive next to West Georgia Health. For more information, contact Lowe at 706-845-3866.

Meals for Circles of Troup County

Circles of Troup County, the county poverty initiative, needs volunteers to prepare the meal for participants, their children and volunteers attending the weekly meetings. Providing a free meal and free childcare each week greatly reduces barriers for single mothers to attend our meetings that help them set goals to become self-sufficient. Meals include a lean meat, three vegetables and fresh fruit for 40 people. No drinks or dessert. The cost of the food can be reimbursed up to $100 a week. For information or to volunteer to prepare a meal, contact Sherri Brown at sbrown@troupco.org or at 706-883-1687.

Submit items to Matthew Strother at mstrother@lagrangenews.com, at our office at 105 Ashton St. or by fax to 706-884-8712.