POTTSTOWN PA – As Friday night’s (Oct. 21, 2011) football game between Pottsgrove and Pottstown high schools approaches, both the Falcon and Trojan teams want their fans to be thinking “pink.”

During the varsity game that starts at 7 p.m. in the stadium at Pottsgrove High, Kauffman Road, Pottstown PA, players and staff members of both teams will join in a community-wide awareness program to show those afflicted by cancer, as well as those who have survived it, that “they are never far from our thoughts,” Pottsgrove Athletic Director Gary DeRenzo says.

• This event has been added to The Post calendar.

Pink is the favored color of breast cancer survivors. For Friday’s contest the Pottsgrove Falcons will wear pink jerseys, while the Pottstown Trojans will wear pink tape accessories on their uniforms. Pink balloons will adorn the entrance to the stadium. Cancer awareness posters will be displayed by the Pottsgrove SNAP Team.

There will be pink-related fund-raising efforts, too, with proceeds to benefit the Phoenixville Cancer Center.

• Pottsgrove’s student government will host a “pink tailgate party” outside the high school cafeteria area from 5:30-6:30 p.m., featuring food, drink and music before the start of the game.
• Members of Pottsgrove’s National Honor Society will be sell pink T-Shirts promoting the event at a cost of $10. They also will also be doing face painting and pink hair extensions with the help of Salon Twenty-Two owner and 1995 Pottsgrove grad Tracy Reinhart Heebner and her staff.

The cancer center “is a grass-roots program that utilizes every dollar on families in need,” DeRenzo explained. It serves meals to those who are unable to cook for themselves. It travels to homes of those in treatment to transport patients to appointments, and provides help to clean homes so they do not fall into disrepair. “In other words, they support all those everyday things that many of us take for granted,” he added.

“We hope (area residents) will attend and support not only high school football, but also students and community making a difference in the lives of those fighting cancer,” DeRenzo said.

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