What's Right in Texoma - Fighting Breast Cancer
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Updated: 2:09 AM Nov 17, 2009
What's Right in Texoma - Fighting Breast Cancer
We're beginning a special series called "What's Right.” For the next five-weeks we want to hear from you, as we'll be highlighting what's right in communities across Texoma. Shelby Levins brings us our first story from Ada.
Posted: 6:34 PM Oct 29, 2009
Reporter: Shelby Levins
Email Address: shelby.levins@kxii.com

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We're beginning a special series called "What's Right.” For the next five-weeks we want to hear from you, as we'll be highlighting what's right in communities across Texoma. Shelby Levins brings us our first story from Ada.

For the next month we want to prove it's not all bad news. There are plenty of positives stories every day in Texoma. And we want to take the time to share them with you on First News at 5. We begin in Ada, where a group of college students are preparing for a special benefit concert that's hoping to raise money for a cure.

For weeks women of the local Zeta Tau Alpha chapter at East Central University have been selling concert tickets and t-shirts, with one goal in mind, helping to find a cure for breast cancer.

Dare Chronister is the sorority’s president and one of the master minds behind the benefit concert – “Country Can Cure.”

"We wanted to throw in something different. Not a lot of sororities or fraternities do big concerts like this,” Chronister said.

“Country Can Cure” is a new event that hopes to entertain the entire ECU campus and greater Ada community, but student organizers hope the funds raised for breast cancer research serve a much larger purpose.

"We all know somebody personally, or we know friends or friends that have all suffered from this disease and we know we get to help them, that's why we really do it,” Chronister explained.

Clancy Davis, an Ada country artist, will be headlining the Friday night show at the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. But he won't be the only one taking the stage. A two time breast cancer survivor will be sharing her story too.

"This is not a disease that is going to go away unless we cure it, it's only going to get worse, Stacy Shelton explained.

Shelton is an ECU alum, and local author, who used writing to help cope with her battles against cancer. Now she's hoping her testimony will help others overcome the disease, and events like “County Can Cure” will help find a Cure for breast cancer.

"I feel like in my life time we will cure cancer I think we're that close. And it's so important to have those research dollars,” Shelton said.

At $10 a ticket, Chronister says they're hoping to sell a thousand, raising $10,000 for breast cancer research and awareness that will stretch far beyond the local college campus.

Tickets are for sale at ECU along with local businesses like Steppin' Out or Premier Reality, and they'll also be available at the door tomorrow evening.

Now we want to know what's right in your community, send me an email at shelby.levins@kxii.com. And be sure to tune in next Tuesday right here on First News at 5 for our next piece in our "What's Right" series.


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