Bottle and can returns help fund cancer drive
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| Jill Lezotte-Kates, of Wayne, right, and Miranda Freed, bag and sort the mountains of cans and bottles they have collected to help Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Lezotte-Kates and Freed also support the effort through their Avon sales. |
“My mother is a survivor. I want there to be a cure,” said Lezotte-Kates, a Westland Rotarian and Wayne resident. In addition to helping the cause through her Avon sales, she has returned a small mountain of cans and bottles as part of her fundraising too.
Avon is the National Presenting Sponsor for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Lezotte-Kates' mother lost her mother and a sister to breast cancer, and also has two additional sisters, while a brother and a niece are survivors.
Lezotte-Kates said her fervent wish is for a cure “when and if me, my daughter or my granddaughter get breast cancer.” She took action as a fundraiser, including collecting the returnable cans and bottles.
The pandemic means that Making Strides Against Breast Cancer events have gone virtual. She notes attendance of some 25,000 in past years at Detroit. This year, fundraising took a hit as a result of in-person Detroit and Ann Arbor events being canceled.
To make a donation, go to: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/JMLKates
