Nancy King looks at the schedule for the June 24 Rally for the Cure. King, an organizer, also holds white and pink flags, respectively symbols for cancer survivors and victims. (Jean Schlegel/VCTR) 

By Jean Schlegel
Valley City Times-Record

The eighth annual Rally for the Cure will be June 24 at the Valley City Town & Country Club.
The golf scramble, meant to raise awareness for cancer detection, usually draws 50 to 70 golfers.
The course will be lined with white flags for cancer survivors and pink ones for the deceased. Individuals may honor as many loved ones as they wish with these flags.
Valley City residents Marian Gerntholz, Vi Egan and Otie Fagerstrom are breast cancer survivors and members of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.
“Wear something pink” to the event, said Nancy King, who has worked with the event since its inception. A bouquet of flowers will go to the person “who looks the most striking in pink,” she said.
Underscoring the importance of Rally for the Cure is that one in eight women develop breast cancer: one of eight mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, neighbors, co-workers or community members.
Early detection of breast cancer yields a 98 percent, five-year survival rate.
Since 1996, Rally for the Cure has spread awareness and also raised more than $45 million for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Komen was dying of cancer when her sister, Nancy Brinker, promised her she would do everything she could to end breast cancer. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives and find the cures.
Events such as Rally for the Cure have helped Komen for the Cure invest nearly $1 billion to fulfill the promise, becoming the largest nonprofit funding source fighting breast cancer in the world.
King encourages preregistration. Registration on June 24 is at 11 a.m.
Registration costs $50 and includes 18 holes of golf, dinner, a magazine subscription and a $20 donation to Komen for the Cure. Door prizes and Etonic brand golf shoes will be awarded.
“Everyone goes home with a prize,” King said.
For more information, call Nancy King at (701) 845-2432, Amber Olson at (701) 845-6986, or Bobbie Miller at (701) 840-0865.