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The Westview neighborhood hosted a National Night Out event last Tuesday, Oct. 5, where members of the Sealy Police Department came to get familiar with the community and families they serve. Community members and SPD representatives bonded over food and music and the cherry on top was provided by local ice cream shop Scoops and Scholars in Sealy. COURTESY PHOTOS

Michael Hardie performed his original song Adios San Antonio with his daughter Myla Hardie and Gustavo Chaise during Sunday’s Evening on the Deck hosted by the Sealy Area Historical Society. HANS LAMMEMAN

It’s almost time once again for the seventh annual Bras for a Cause event at Saddleback Saloon where male models show off brasiers decorated by community members to raise money that will be donated to the Breast Care Center at Memorial Hermann-Katy.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I’m probably not telling you anything that you don’t already know. I mean, unless you’ve spent the last decade living under a rock then you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you read your Sealy News last week then you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is pink ribbons, pink out sporting events, Race for the Cure events, Bras for a Cause events, and fundraisers galore. But, other than causing a generation of people to link the color pink to breast cancer, what does this awareness thing really do?

In honor of National Coffee with a Cop day, students at Creative Care Early Childhood Enrichment Center hosted a drive-thru coffee and breakfast drop off for Sealy Police Department representatives..

For the first time since Aug. 23, Austin County had no new COVID-related fatalities reported to start this week according to numbers from the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) as of Monday at noon. Since the pandemic began, there have been 2,683 total confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 50 fatalities in the county.

Tough Enough to Wear Pink will be observed at the Austin County Fair Oct. 15 when fairgoers who enter the grounds wearing pink between 5 and 8 p.m. will be given a pink ribbon by volunteers of the Austin County Unit or the American Cancer Society. The Fair Association will donate $1 to ACS for every ribbon distributed.