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Victory celebration — DeLand post-office employees Pam Alderson, left, Paula NeJame, cake-bearer Luce Riddle and Fabrina Carver show off the pink cake they will share to celebrate fundraising for breast-cancer research. The celebration came Nov. 13 for fundraising during October — Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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Thinking pink — Nov. 13, DeLand post-office employees celebrate their success in raising funds to fight breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. At left is customer-service associate Lori Harrison, with retail manager Fabrina Carver, customer-service supervisor Craig Medeiros, sales and service associate Luce Riddle, Postmaster Paula NeJame and finance-unit supervisor Pam Alderson. Behind them is customer-service supervisor Gia DeLeo. The DeLand office was eighth in the entire country in fundraising through sales of special stamps.
Employees celebrate success of breast-cancer fundraiser
By Pat Hatfield
posted Nov 15, 2008 - 8:48:19am
DeLand's post office is celebrating a postal-pink victory: first in its district and eighth in the nation in selling pink stamps to help raise money for breast-cancer research.
The DeLand post office sold more than 16,738 other post offices across the nation, and more than all the other post offices whose ZIP codes begin with 327.
The DeLand community and the DeLand post office united for a great cause, Postmaster Paula NeJame said.
Across the country during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, post offices sold special stamps at 55 cents each. Thirteen cents from each sale was donated to breast-cancer research.
"Our whole lobby was covered in pink," NeJame said.
"I want to thank DeLand," said Pam Alderson, finance-unit supervisor of the local post office.
She also praised the DeLand clerks, who encouraged customers to spend a little extra for the special stamps.
Customer-service supervisor Craig Medeiros said Alderson, too, deserves credit for her enthusiasm, which rallied others to the cause. Postmaster NeJame agreed.
"Plus, she has the biggest hair," Medeiros said.
During October and to celebrate the news of their win Nov. 13, DeLand post-office employees wore pink clothes and pink wigs. Alderson's faux hairdo towered atop her head.
The U.S. Postal Service began selling the special stamps in 1998, and, through 2007, had raised a total of $63.2 million for research to find a cure for breast cancer.
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