October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and all throughout the country schools, fire departments and other civic organizations have donned pink.
The color pink is the official color for this awareness initiative.
In the past week, the Dallas Morning News and the Wichita Falls Times Record have delivered pink newspapers to customers.
The Bowie News produced its own special breast cancer awareness section in Oct. 3 edition. This newspaper has done a publication of this type for the past several years, general manager/editor Barbara Green reported.
On Oct. 2, the Nocona Independent School District had “Pink Out” games for breast cancer awareness against Holliday.
Football coaches were brave enough to wear pink, including the signature ‘N’ on their caps.
Volleyball players competed for Cindy Womack, who’s currently battling breast cancer, and there’s a photo circulating Facebook as a show of support.
The football field at Jack Crain Stadium was adorned with a pink ribbon. Cheerleaders wore pink T-shirts.
Saint Jo will be having a “Pink Out” football game on Oct. 23 versus Tioga, the District 9-1A-I opener for the Panthers.
Head coach Chad Tallon said he will leave it to the discretion of the players how much pink they want to wear.
“Breast cancer is something that has affected a lot of people in Montague County,” Tallon said. “The Halls (Lynn and Chuck and their family) lived here forever, and we have close ties with them. We are out there doing what we can to support women with breast cancer.”
At Bowie Elementary School, Montague County diagnostician Krista Duvall and BES principal Blake Enlow came up with the idea of “Team Hall” T-shirts.
Let’s say, for the record, everyone in the county is on “Team Hall” right now, and it actually extends to other surrounding counties as well.
“This was something we came up with to show our support to the family,” Enlow said. “Lynn is a great lady, and we wanted to help her out. This has been an awesome deal.”
Lynn Hall has served BES as a Response to Intervention Coordinator. Hall helps students who are struggling with reading and mathematics. She has excelled in this position other school districts, too. Read more of this column in the weekend Bowie News.

Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.

Bowie Elementary School teachers, administrators, professionals and more wear “Team Hall” T-shirts in honor of Lynn Hall, who is currently battling breast cancer. Click on the image itself for the complete photo. (Courtesy photo from the Bowie Independent School District)