Who's Wearing Wristbands

To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the American Cancer Society Saturday, Tammy Gagnon said that with the Making Strides Against Cancer Walk they hope to raise just that: $100,000. Gagnon, the publicity chair for the Litchfield chapter of Making Strides said that the hope is to beat last year’s tally of $92,000 donated and break six figures. “It’s a very inspiring day,” Gagnon said. “It’ll leave you, you know, you’ll be changed.” The walk to fight cancer will begin at the White Memorial Conservation Center on 80 Whitehall Road in Litchfield. It is a three-mile walk, but people who can’t handle the walk don’t have to do all three, Gagnon said. “The ground is beautiful to walk on,” she said, describing the path of the walk at White Memorial. “And it’s through the woods. It’s great.” Continue reading →

A Valley High School senior’s black rubber bracelet sales have funded a series of assemblies at central Iowa high schools to draw attention and prevent depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. The presentations include assemblies at Valley High School and Valley Southwoods Freshman High School in West Des Moines, and a public event at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Johnston Middle School,the Des Moines Register reports. The assemblies will be presented by To Write Love on Her Arms, a Florida-based nonprofit dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment, prevention and recovery. Maria Lind, 16, a junior at Valley, lost a friend to suicide in 2012. She said the campaign focuses on “the promise of tomorrow.” Continue reading →

Are you running an event anytime soon with a large number of people? Perhaps you have a door policy to be enforced or different levels of food and drink service to cater for? Or maybe you're just running a teenager's 18th party and you want a degree of control over the attendees! Handband can help in every instance with our Tyvek single use event wristbands or our Food and drink token bands. They're both single use even wristbands that simply wrap around wrists and stay there come what may until you remove them with scissors. They're easy to hand out, easy to place on the wrist and the multiple colours let you designate the who and how of controlling the function. Staff can see at a glance who's 'invited' and who's not. Continue reading →

I put my first Livestrong bracelet on in 2004, the year it came out. There were several elements that combined to inspire me to make it a permanent part of my wardrobe. The simplicity struck me: just $1, durable rubber, and two words pasted together to form a powerful message. Most importantly, however, my uncle had recently died of a sudden attack of cancer and the bracelet's presence on my wrist served as both memorial and reminder that life is short and often out of our control. All the more reason to live strong. Continue reading →

Purple wristbands will be adorning the wrists of clubbers in Newmarket thanks to a new charity initiative by a town nightclub. De Niro’s manager Peter Crotty has launched a fundraising campaign for Action for Addenbrooke’s, a charity which aims to improve care for patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital, both in Cambridge. Mr Crotty said: “I have had a lot of dealings with the hospital and I wanted to do something to be able to give a lot back. “We came up with the idea of the wristbands and all money they raise will go to Action for Addenbrooke’s.” Continue reading →