Denise Bohn Pink Event to raise funds for cancer charities next month

Tickets are available now for the Denise Bohn Pink Event, set for October 10 to raise money for cancer-related charities.

The event was started as the Pink Tie Ball, organized by news reporter and breast cancer survivor Denise Bohn. It ended when Denise died in 2016, but Denise Bohn Pink Event organizer Katie Hess tells us friends and supporters brought it back last year in a slightly different form.

“ We wanted to keep the idea going, so we named it in her honor,” Hess said. “We ‘ve changed it over the years to be more inclusive of people going through all cancers, not just breast cancer, but we kind of keep the pink thing going also in honor of how we started.”

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