Breast Cancer Tree of Remembrance

For the 12th consecutive year, the Palomar College Library, Palomar College Health Services and Phi Theta Kappa are collaborating to make the Breast Cancer Tree of Remembrance available to the staff, students, and faculty of Palomar College as well as to members of the community. This tree is a vehicle for honoring and remembering loved ones who have been afflicted with the disease. Pink ribbons are provided upon which to write the name of the loved one and then the ribbon is tied to the tree.

At the Escondido Center our Breast Cancer Tree of Remembrance is located in the Ernest J. Allen (EJA) Library. EJA Library hours are Monday –Thursday: 8 AM to 8 PM, Friday: 8 AM to Noon and Saturday: 9 AM to 1 PM.

The ribbons of honor and memory from the Tree of Remembrance are saved each year and carried in a breast cancer walk event by a member or members of the Palomar College community. Last year the ribbons from the 2006 Tree of Remembrance were carried in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Balboa Park by Team Strident headed by library manager and breast cancer survivor Katherine Gannett. This year Gannett will carry ribbons from the 2007 Tree of Remembrance. Katherine will be joined in this task by members of the Palomar College Women’s Basketball Team at the 2008 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk at San Diego’s Balboa Park on October 19. The team is coached by Sheri Jennum, the basketball team’s Head Coach. Of the money raised by the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk 100% goes to cancer programs and research here in San Diego County. You can still donate after the 19th by going to the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer San Diego page.

For more information contact Katherine Gannett at the Palomar College Library (744-1150, ext. 2613) or Marlene Forney at Escondido Center’s Ernest J. Allen Library (ext. 8113).