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20 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday May 12, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Weekend to End Breast Cancer Melon Girls hold plant sale On Sept. 8 and 9, Oakville's team Melon Girls will join thousands of other committed women and men in the fifth annual Weekend to End Breast Cancer 60 km walk through Toronto to raise funds for breast cancer research. In 2003, team Melon Girls took part in the premier event. My sister, Lynn Watson, had been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 45. Feeling helpless and isolated, I learned about the walk and knew it was something I had to try to do for every person who might also have to face this devastating disease. Although the faces on our team have changed since our first Toronto walk, our commitment remains strong. This year, Lynn, my sister and inspiration, will join the team on our journey. Team members have already begun to raise the $2,000 per entrant fee (all proceeds to the Weekend to End Breast Cancer) to participate in the walk. We raise the requisite funds through the generous donations of family, friends and colleagues, garage and bake sales, wine-tasting seminars and plant sales. This year's Oakville event is a perennial plant sale to be held tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon at 52 Highland Rd., in the area of Queen Mary Drive and Rebecca Street. We are counting on your support. This Sept. 8, when we begin our walk, survivors, friends and family will cheer us on. Total strangers will line up along our 60 km route and lend support with cheers, tears, posters, flags, even refreshments. It is an intense two days of camaraderie, laughter, aches and pains. And when we enter the site of the closing ceremonies, we will once again enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that we have made a difference in others' lives. Over the past four years we have raised nearly $60,000 for breast cancer research. We are asking for your support again this year. 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