Dear Editor,

The Humboldt Community Breast Health Project is grateful for the community support for its Annual Vacation Raffle. Thanks to over 100 individual volunteers and 30 businesses who sold raffle tickets and promoted the raffle. We thank all the individuals who purchased tickets. The vacation destinations winners are: Mitzi Reid, Judy Sheldon, Jerrilynn Alvara and Glenn Hurlburt.

The community support ensures that HCBHP continues to provide services free of charge to individuals facing breast or gynecologic cancer. This is our largest fundraiser of the year. With your help we met of our goal. 100 percent of the money raised stays in Humboldt County.

Big thanks to the destination donors: Hawaii - Edith and Fred Fritzsche; Nova Scotia-Eva Janson and Sherman Shapiro; Fortuna Farmhouse Bed and Breakfast-Sharmon and Peter Kenyon; Trinidad's Lost Whale Bed and Breakfast-Gia and Gary Hiegert.

Thank you to our sponsors: Coast Central Credit Union, Wildberries Marketplace, Cher-Ae Heights Casino, Hospice of Humboldt, Northcoast Growers Association, City Ambulance of Eureka, Almquist Lumber, Blue Lake Garbage, Cloney's Pharmacy, Tomas Jewelry, Wing Inflatables, EPT Rehabilitation, Jackson & Eklund, CPA, Lima's Professional Pharmacy, Brandi Easter Photography, Carlson Wireless Technologies, Renaissance Computing, Dalianes Travel, Scrapper's Edge, KHSU, KMUD, Times-Standard, Arcata Eye, McKinleyville Press, Lost Coast Communications and Bi-Coastal Media.

Thanks to Graystone Jewelers for generously hosting the raffle drawing event, Samba da Alegria for their performance, Zephyr Markowitz and Sun Valley Group for the floral arrangement. Thank you Winnett Vineyards for donating wine, HCBHP volunteers and Safeway Foundation for donating food and beverages.

Rose Gale-Zoellick

Executive Director

Humboldt Community Breast Health Project