The Groves High School Volleyball team recently hosted their first Annual Pink-Out Volleyball match against West Bloomfield to support breast cancer research at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. The team hosted this event to show their support for the cause, to give back to their community and to let others know how close to home breast cancer has hit the members of the volleyball team and their families.

Micheline Wentworth, a woman described by her eldest daughter, Chantal Wentworth-Mullin, as “beautiful” and “tough as nails,” may have lost her life to ovarian cancer, but her spirit lives on in Chantal.

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute welcomed metro Detroit financial and estate planners Tuesday, May 7 to the Financial and Estate Planning Professionals Breakfast to discuss the tremendous contributions Karmanos has made in the fight against cancer and to encourage advisors to talk to their clients about helping the Institute continue that fight.

The excitement is building as preparations are in full swing for one of the best days in the city of Detroit – the 22nd Annual Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure, locally presented by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. This year’s event is Saturday, May 18, at Comerica Park. Vendor booths open at 7 a.m.; opening ceremony is at 8 a.m.; the Race starts at 9 a.m.; followed by the closing ceremony and awards presentations at 10:30 a.m.

Three long-time friends have continued a post-holiday party tradition of supporting the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s undercompensated care program, raising more than $3,000 this year and bringing their total contributions to the Institute to more than $25,000.