Movie night to benefit cancer research

By Heath Roberson, NCTA student

Let’s take a trip to the Wild West!

Come down to the old football field in front of Ag Hall on the campus of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at dusk (approximately 7:30 p.m.) on Wednesday, October 5 for movie night.

NCTA Aggie students Bianca Reyes, Cody Flint, and Heath Roberson have coordinated a community benefit with a classic Western film for October’s breast cancer awareness month.

Movie night is open to all of campus with freewill donations to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, said Heath Roberson, an agribusiness and irrigation technology major from Kansas.

“You can park your pickup truck or car at the field or bring a lawn chair and blanket and sit right there in the grass,” Roberson said. “We will provide popcorn, candy, and an assortment of drinks to attendees.”

Donations and all proceeds are going to a national organization, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

“We have chosen to set up freewill donations so that we don’t keep anyone from being able to attend,” Roberson adds. “But also, those who want to, can give money to a great cause.”

Each year in the United States about 42,000 women and 500 men die from breast cancer. The Breast Cancer Research Foundation is dedicated to ending breast cancer by advancing the world’s most promising research. With breast cancer affecting hundreds of thousands of people a year and so many of us being affected by it, plus the various cost of treatment that goes along with any type of cancer, every penny counts to help further our education and knowledge regarding the topic of cancer in general.

For more details or to make online gifts to the BCRF, see https://www.bcrf.org/.

(This article is from Heath Roberson, a freshman Aggie student in Dr. Eric Reed's Human Relations class at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.)