• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Health / Medicine / Worker wear denim to help cancer research

Worker wear denim to help cancer research

October 6, 2000 By admin

Office workers across Iowa are buying their way into wearing comfortable jeans at work today. This is National Denim Day in an effort to raise awareness and money in the fight against breast cancer.Polly Flug is a spokeswoman for Farm Bureau Financial Service and president of the Des Moines chapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.She says participants in today’s event make a five-dollar donation to the agency in exchange for wearing jeans at work. Flug says -all- of the proceeds from today’s fundraiser go to the Komen Foundation. She says the organization devotes one-quarter of all money to cancer research.For more information, call 800-IM-AWARE.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Health / Medicine Tagged With: Cancer

Featured Stories

Reynolds signs her ‘school choice’ bill into law

Governor Reynolds touts 2024 Iowa Caucuses in Inaugural Address

University of Iowa grad presiding over U.S. House Speaker vote

Iowan who was oldest person in the U.S. dies

Iowa Lottery to start making some payments via debit cards

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Iowa State names new receivers coach

No. 2 Iowa visits No. 1 Penn State in wrestling dual Friday night

Iowa’s Clark brings increased exposure to women’s basketball

No. 18 Iowa State women visit TCU

Northern Iowa men host Valparaiso

More Sports

Archives

Copyright © 2023 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC