Somerset County 'Pink Out' Donations Presented to Steeplechase Patients

From Somerset County:

Somerset County employees and others recently donated items for nearly 250 goodie bags that Somerset County Planning Division staff and volunteers assembled for patients and caregivers at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Steeplechase Cancer Center during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

As part of their fourth annual “Pink Out” event, members of the planning division staff were joined by Freeholder Director Patricia L. Walsh, Freeholder Deputy Director Peter S. Palmer and Freeholder Brian D. Levine to present donations.

Planning staffers wore matching pink T-shirts and gathered with hospital representatives and volunteers in the Steeplechase lobby before visiting with patients.

Donated items this year came from dozens of county employees as well as the Warrenbrook Senior Wellness Center in Warren, the Somerset County Senior Wellness Center in Basking Ridge, the North Plainfield Branch of the Somerset County Library System and Girl Scout Troop 60778 in Middlesex Borough. Several large gift baskets also were donated, filled with extra items for nurses and individual distribution.

The “Pink Out” event was spearheaded by Principal Planner Tara Kenyon of Manville, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed and successfully treated three years ago.

Photo courtesy of Somerset County