bracelet. breast cancer awareness bracelet, bracelets, cancer braceletsHARTSVILLE, S.C. _ Wearing pink shirts, jackets, hats, flowers and a breast cancer awareness bracelet, guests filed in to the Village Café Wednesday morning in support of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Talk Show Host Sharman Poplava broadcast every Wednesday morning live from the restaurant, and she joined the celebration with her “Get Your Pink On” themed “Good Morning Hartsville,” show at 8:30 a.m. Show guests included men and women breast cancer survivors. In addition to the breast cancer guests, Poplava interviewed Doug Bush with the Friends of the Library and Audrey Tripp, director of the Hartsville Memorial Library, about the upcoming book sale; and Wes Daniels and Tiletha Lane of Coker College about Coker’s homecoming activities this weekend.

Village Café owner Dawn Calhoun showed her support of Breast Cancer month by pledging to donate a $1 to the American Cancer Society for everyone who showed up at the restaurant during the show. She had coffee, pink lemonade and pink frosted cookies waiting on the guests.

Calhoun said she made the gesture to donate a $1 for everyone who came by because cancer awareness is very close to her heart.

“I had an aunt that passed away with breast cancer,” Calhoun said. Calhoun said she also had two uncles and a grandfather who suffered from cancer.

“Cancer is rampant in my family,” she said.

Calhoun said cancer is one disease that does not discriminate. She said chances are if you know five people cancer has probably touched the lives of three of them in some way.

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