Look out for pink people on Labour Day weekend

Pink Ribbon fundraising appeal for breast cancer research.

The Pink Ribbon fundraising appeal for breast cancer research and support has had to be scaled back in Mahurangi this year, but there will still be an opportunity to support it.

Fundraiser Shona Pickup is asking Mahurangi residents to keep an extra eye, and dollar, out for her pink helpers.

This year she’s enlisted the help of some “younger volunteers” in their 40s and 50s, who  will be at Warkworth New World, Mahurangi East, Morrison Drive and the markets in Matakana on Labour Weekend (October 24- 26).

The national appeal doesn’t officially start until October 30, but Shona is coordinating her efforts earlier to capture the crowds.