Dr. Karen Stubenbort speaks to three members of Butler County Community College's social awareness club and to fellow club adviser Juli Louttit during a Project Pink meeting on BC3's main campus.

BUTLER TWP — Students at Butler County Community College are raising funds during breast cancer awareness month for research of a disease that has afflicted those they love and that is diagnosed in about 260,000 women and men each year in the United States.

BC3's Project Pink campaign, coordinated for a second consecutive October by students in the college's social awareness club, will benefit the Side-Out Foundation, a Virginia charity that raises funds for research and breast cancer awareness through mainly volleyball-related events.

Since BC3's volleyball program held its first Dig Pink game in 2010, members of the BC3 community have contributed $19,674 to the Side-Out Foundation, including a single-year high of $3,200 in 2019.

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