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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.

Austin County was represented at the State Fair of Texas in September and came back with top finishes in multiple categories..

Hattie Schalla won Grand Champion in the Senior Fair Cup competition Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Austin County Fair.