Page 14 2026 Hometown HEROES Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS June/July 2026 In October of 2017, Lincoln Daily News started the Paint the Paper Pink campaign in its daily editions. It was an opportunity for the community to show their support for Breast Cancer warriors by wearing pink shirts on Fridays throughout the month. The following year, LDN’s Karen (Hargis) Castelein, Roy Logan and Nila Smith started a Relay for Life team and worked with Cindy Guyette of Collision Concepts for the first ever Pink Pumpkin Auction. During COVID, the auction was suspended along with Relay for Life. When life returned to normal in 2021 the auction returned, but Relay for Life did not. Castelein reached out to the Regional Coordinator for the American Cancer Society and got ACS’s blessing on resuming the luminaria campaign as a portion of the auction. Then Post and Tonita Reifsteck, who was also a very longterm Relay for Life participant, were asked to take on collecting luminaria at the auction. Both were delighted to be asked and excited about bringing back something that was so important. Bill Post and Tonita Reifsteck collecting luminaria at the Pink Pumpkin Auction
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