skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Day of action focuses on CT undocumented's healthcare needs; 7 jurors seated in first Trump criminal trial; ND looks to ease 'upskill' obstacles for former college students; Black Maternal Health Week ends, health disparities persist.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Seven jury members were seated in Trump's hush money case. House Speaker Johnson could lose his job over Ukraine aid. And the SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a case that could undo charges for January 6th rioters.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Rural Wyoming needs more vocational teachers to sustain its workforce pipeline, Ohio environmental advocates fear harm from a proposal to open 40-thousand forest acres to fracking and rural communities build bike trail systems to promote nature, boost the economy.

Packers' Wives Will Tackle Breast Cancer

play audio
Play

Monday, October 21, 2013   

ASHWAUBENON, Wis. – Tuesday night, Packers defensive back Tramon Williams will try to make an interception of a different kind.

He and his wife, Shantrell, have organized a new fundraiser, the Pink Powder Puff game, to intercept breast cancer.

Many of the Packers' wives will be playing a charity football game at Ashwaubenon High School.

Laurie Bertrand with the American Cancer Society in Wisconsin says Shantrell Williams has a very personal motivation for helping fund cancer research.

"Her family has been touched by breast cancer on many different levels,” Bertrand explains. “There's, I believe, five family members on her maternal side that have all had breast cancer."

Bertrand says the Williamses have recruited the wives of many of the Packers' star players to take to the field.

Tramon Williams and fellow Packers defensive back Davon House will coach the two teams of Packers' wives, which Bertrand says is like a who's who of Packers stars.

"Burnett, Crosby, Jolly, Hawk,” Bertrand says. “Obviously House and Williams. “Jones, Finley, Kuhn, Bulaga, Bennett, Nelson and still more than that. The women really just came together."

Tickets to the game are available online at makingstrideswalk.org or at the American Cancer Society office at 790 Marvelle Lane in Green Bay.

Bertrand says breast cancer death rates have dropped by 33 percent since the early 1990s, but this is no time to rest in the fight against cancer.

Bertrand says the Pink Powder Puff game and other fundraisers are critical to the mission of raising money to save more lives and help more people battle breast cancer.

"The money raised from this event is going to help fund patient programs and services for breast cancer patients and their families,” she says. “It's going to breast cancer research. Obviously without research we're never going to find that cure, and also going to help women that are in need of mammograms to get those mammograms."

Tickets are $7 for those 11 or older, $5 for ages 6 to 10, and children 5 and under are free.

You can also make a donation at www.makingstrideswalk.org/greenbaywi.





get more stories like this via email

more stories
Since 2009, Market Match has served tens of thousands of low-income Californians to buy produce at markets like this one in San Francisco.(Heart of the City Market)

Social Issues

play sound

California's program helping low-income families buy fresh fruit and vegetables is on the chopping block and health care advocates are asking legislat…


Social Issues

play sound

A persistent child care worker shortage across New Hampshire is leaving families with few options. The state is currently short more than 7,000 …

Social Issues

play sound

The child welfare system in Pennsylvania faces a staffing crisis affecting children and families throughout the system. The Child Welfare Resource …


By 2031, good jobs accessible to people with only a high school education will represent just 6% of all jobs. (bodnarphoto/Adobe Stock)

play sound

Work is being done in rural areas across Texas to make sure students are prepared for the workforce even if they intend to stay put after graduation…

play sound

This summer, colleges and universities will have to comply with a new federal rule and not withhold students' transcripts over unpaid tuition and …

From 2017 to 2019, Ohio ranked 46th among 50 states for pollution exposure, including exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution. (Halfpoint/Adobe Stock)

play sound

Recent data ranks Columbus as the most polluted major city in the U.S., highlighting concerns about common pollutants, like smog and vehicle …

Social Issues

play sound

Kentuckians have less than a week to register to vote in next month's primary election. If folks miss the April 22 deadline, residents can still …

Environment

play sound

The chair of the Federal Trade Commission will be in rural Iowa this weekend to hear from farmers and other residents about the proposed sale of Iowa …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021