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Grand Haven Host Fashion Show to Raise Money for Breast Cancer

On Oct 9, the Grand Havens Women’s Club hosted their fifth annual fashion show with the help of local stores to raise money to help women undergoing breast cancer treatment. The money made from ticket sales, $30 per ticket, and booths set up throughout the community center all contribute to the funds that will be used to help pay for such procedures.

“It is to give free mammograms to uninsured women in the Tri-Cities and if they need follow up treatments, like follow up MRI and they have no insurance we also found that and pay for that,” fashion show coordinator Bonnie Vandermolen said. “Since we’ve started the program we have helped an excess of 300 women with initial mammograms and follow up procedures.”

Some of the local stores that showed up to participate in last Wednesday’s fashion show included Buffalo Bob’s, Glick’s, Mackinaw Kite, Docksides, and Earths’ Edge. A few of the stores including Solia had women who have fought and are breast cancer survivors as their models.

“We will make around approximately 10,000 dollars,” Vandermolen said. “It is put into a blind account at the North Ottawa Hospital and is given any uninsured women who applies for it, we turn nobody down.”

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Maisy Hoffman, PR Manager
Senior PR manager Maisy Hoffman - also known Mason or Maz (the A sounds like it does in the word "at") - takes pride in herself for getting out there and trying something new. She has been on staff for three years, two of which were spent as photo editor, but now she has passed the torch to one of her good friends Jonas Quirin and is in a different leadership position. Maisy loves action sports, she spends a lot of her time watching snowboarding videos online and thinking of ways she can bring similar shots to life someday through cinematography. She enjoys viewing life through the lens of a camera. She hopes to find herself somewhere in the mountains for college, studying advertising and/or video production.

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