Page 7 2023 PAINT THE PAPER PINK Lincoln Daily News Oct/Nov 2023 tee-shirts and donating them to the Pink Pumpkin Auction. Earlier this year, she contacted the committee and asked if she could have the floor at this year’s event for a special recognition of two long-term Relay for Life supporters. Bill Post for more than 25 years has been involved with Relay for Life. He has been almost solely responsible for the luminaria project that was a tradition of the original Relay format and is now a big part of the Pink Pumpkin Auction. Tonita Reifsteck has been involved with Relay for Life practically as long as Post. For years she worked to collect names of current cancer survivors, getting them special tee-shirts and helping to coordinate the survivor dinner the night before the official Relay event. Thursday night, Smith introduced Brumbaugh, saying that she has been a friend for several years, she has endured numerous cancer events, but always with a smile on her face and a positive attitude. Smith said that Brumbaugh would never consider herself as a cancer “victim.” Smith said, “she is a warrior, a survivor, she’s strong, she’s brave, she’s beautiful, but she is not a victim.” Brumbaugh came to the front and asked that Post and Reifsteck come up and test out the sofa in the middle of the room, donated to the auction by Jake Johnson of Jake’s Furnishings in Lincoln. When the two had joined her, Brumbaugh presented Post with a hand crochet luminaria bag with a commemoration inscribed noting his many years of working on the luminaria project. Reifsteck was gifted with a pillow made from survivor tee-shirts. Continued --
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