What would you do to honour a friend?

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is coming to a close. But the importance of this issue remains with us beyond the end of October.

Over the years I have noticed many of my IAWP friends have found unique ways to honour a friend who has suffered with breast cancer. We can be very creative....

....would you....dye your pink?

IAWP Third Vice President Myra James and IAWP Business Manager Wendy Wilson at the 2006 Saskatoon Conference.

....would you....shave your head?

Me and my very good friend Winnipeg Police Service Constable Sandra Murner at 2001 Annual Cops for Cancer Head Shave

....would you....create a legacy fund?

A group of friends who worked on the Conference Committee for the IAWP Annual Training Conference in Edmonton, 2001 created a tribute to IAWP Region 12 member Beverly McLean by starting the Beverly McLean Legacy Fund. Beverly died a short time after the Edmonton conference but her memory lives on each year through this fund. The fund enables one Edmonton Police Service member and one RCMP member from K Division (Alberta) to take travel to the IAWP conference every year.

Be healthy, be happy and continue to honour our friends who are fighting this disease throughout the entire year.