THE KSN DREAM HOUSE FOR THE CURE

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State prepares to release breast cancer commemorative license plates

by Anita Cochran
KSN News

WICHITA, Kansas -- While winter weather is playing havoc with the building schedule for the KSN Dream House for The Cure, another breast cancer awareness project is running a few weeks behind schedule too.

Director of Kansas Division of Vehicles Carmen Alldritt says designing the new breast cancer tags has proven harder than originally thought. The problem has been the pink ink. It’s never been done in Kansas before.

"It’s tough to get pink's perfect and we had to have a perfect pink," said Alldritt. "This is probably one of the most intricate designs we’ve ever done and the colors were all custom colors. A lot of plates are standard, but that can be tricky and this one had to be perfect."

The $50 each motorist pays for one of the breast cancer tags will go to the University of Kansas Cancer Center. It will then be used by the Midwest Cancer Alliance which the university recently established. The whole idea is for the money to be used so Kansans have the most up to date information on breast cancer as possible.

"Kansas is probably the 15th or 16th in the nation to get the tag so we've been waiting a long time," said Peggy Johnson, Mid-Kansas Komen Education Chair. "We're really ready for it and we think it's a great opportunity."

Many Komen volunteers like Peggy are among those anxiously awaiting their own plate’s arrival. The money won’t be going to Komen but true cancer activists don’t care. They support all efforts with the common cause of finding a cure.

"Any way that we can get out the message of early detection is a good thing," said Johnson. "If somebody is at a stoplight and looking at somebody's tag it has a pink ribbon and says, ‘driven for a cure,’ maybe it will remind them either they need to get a mammogram, or maybe, ‘I need to talk to my wife, my mother, my sister, my daughter.’

Hopefully the plates will arrive in the next couple of weeks. The tags are actually produced in Wichita. KSN will let you know as soon as they start coming off the line.

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