Yonkers Lights Up For Child Cancer Awareness Month

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Yonkers will try to shine a light on child cancer awareness as the city lights the City Hall clock tower gold throughout the week as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

The Yonkers City Hall clock tower will light up gold for child cancer awareness.
Photo Credit: *Wikimedia Commons*

by Eric Gendron

09/25/2013 4:00 a.m.

“Every year, 11,600 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with cancer, that’s 32 children every day,” Mayor Spano said in a statement. “Here in Yonkers, we joining the thousands of people, doctors, researchers and organizations that are coming together to fight back against cancer, and we are making great strides.”

Spano said many members of the City’s workforce are also participating in raising awareness of Childhood Cancer by wearing gold ribbon pins during the week of the 23rd and raising funds for the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation for Pediatric Cancer research.

More information about “Go Gold” for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is available on the Go Gold For Kids Facebook page.

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