Category Archives: Awareness Month 2019

Awareness Month 2019, Events, Photo Gallery

Alex’s Army Bowl 2019

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September 7th, 2019, marked our 4th Annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games at Grizzly Sports Complex and this year proved to be another awesome year. Four honorary local families joined us this year to help participate in the coin toss before the game which is always special not only for the families but for the team captains and referees who get to hear a little bit about our friends’ fight and to help raise awareness that childhood cancer is not rare.

This day is always special because it brings cheerleaders and football players from various leagues together for a much greater cause. It helps to increase compassion and understanding amongst our youth for their peers who are enduring incredibly tough battles everyday.

We love seeing the gold ribbons along the Football fields at Grizzly each year and know how much seeing GOLD means to the kids and families fighting.

Thank you to those who stopped by our tent to learn a little bit more about our mission and why we do what we do.

Thank you to our friends at Amusement of Bouncers for donating the Quarterback Football Toss and for providing the super cool football themed moon bounce.

Thank you to American Pride Youth Football, Gainesville Grizzlies, and to all the teams for GOING GOLD with us to help raise awareness during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and in honor of families whose lives are forever changed by a childhood cancer diagnosis.

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Awareness Month 2019, Other Events

September Events

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Alex’s Army has several upcoming events that we would love for you and your family to be a part of! Read about each upcoming event below:

September 7th – Alex’s Army Bowl Games @ Grizzly Sports Complex
10600 Determination Road, Nokesville, VA | 9 AM – 6 PM

Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation is honored to partner once again with the Gainesville Grizzlies and American Pride Youth Football Leagues for the 4th Annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games! The goal of this event is to help kickoff Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, to raise awareness for childhood cancers, and to honor local families who have fought or are fighting various forms of childhood cancers.

Football players from both leagues, referees, and coaches wear gold ribbons, local children from the childhood cancer community are invited to participate in the coin toss, be honored by the teams before the game, and are showered with gifts from Alex’s Army and both youth football leagues.

We will have a moon bounce and Alex’s Army table set up with merchandise sales, information on upcoming events and how you can join our mission, and more! This year we also will be selling raffle tickets for drawings throughout the day so if you’re at Grizzly for scrimmages – be sure to stop by our table and see us!

Let us know you’re coming on our FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/609532322783910/?active_tab=about

September 9th – Haymarket Town Council Meeting & Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Proclamation @ Town Hall
15000 Washington Street #100, Haymarket, VA | 7 PM

Attention Town of Haymarket Residents & Western Prince William County families – We invite you to join Alex’s Army and the Town of Haymarket as the Town of Haymarket continues to Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness and issues a special Proclamation for the Month of September! We encourage families to wear a Childhood Cancer Awareness shirt to this event. Alex’s Army will be handing out Gold Ribbons to all families who attend.

September 13th – Battlefield High School Childhood Cancer Awareness GOLD OUT football game vs. Potomac Falls
15000 Graduation Drive, Haymarket, VA | 7 PM

Join Alex’s Army at the Battlefield vs Potomac Falls Varsity Football Game for their first home game and GOLD OUT for Childhood Cancer Awareness! Alex’s Army is providing Gold Ribbons for Freshman, JV, and Varsity football players helmets to be worn at the game. We also will have a table on site so be sure to stop by and say hi!

September 20-22nd – CureFest Weekend Washington DC

Join Alex’s Army and over a hundred other Childhood Cancer foundations and advocacy groups for a weekend of awareness, togetherness, and love for families impacted by childhood cancers. This years’ event will feature a live performance by Daughtry Accoustic Trio Sunday, September 22nd! For more information visit www.curefestusa.org

Awareness Month 2019, Photo Gallery

Ribbons Are Up

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Ribbons are UP and Alex’s Army is proud to have been able to bring GOLD to our hometown of Haymarket again this year!

Sunday, September 1st volunteers, families, and friends of Alex’s Army helped come together to tie Gold Ribbons on the light posts that line the main street of town. These Gold Ribbons represent LOVE and HOPE for families fighting and aim to raise awareness during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!

We started this last year inspired by our friends at Team Mathias who have been bringing Gold Ribbons to their hometown of Leesburg for several years. Its an honor to bring these Gold Ribbons now to Haymarket and we aim to reach other local Prince William County towns next year (watch out Gainesville, Manassas, Nokesville, and Warrenton)!

It’s an awesome feeling for us to be able to hang up and take down these ribbons but there were a few extra special things that happened this year that we wanted to share.

The first was while putting up ribbons crossed paths with a local Haymarket resident was walking along the sidewalk. She asked what our team was doing and when we told her she mentioned that she had a child who had fought cancer many years ago who is now a survivor and she was so happy to see the Gold Ribbons being put up! It’s a reminder that unfortunately childhood cancer is not as rare as people would like to think and there are no coincidences. What a God-ordained moment that she was taking a stroll at the very same time we were putting these ribbons up!

Second, this year we had several local families of both fighters and survivors sign up to join us which was beyond special. These ribbons are in honor and support of families like theirs and they chose to put their walking shoes on and join us in doing the work! We know they know firsthand what these gold ribbons represent and want to give each of them a shout-out to know just how loved they are!

Lastly, a special friend of Alex’s Army and of our Alex who fought her own battle with Breast Cancer a few years ago, also showed up with her daughter to help us hang our Gold Ribbons. This meant the world to us to have them there proudly rocking their Alex’s Army shirts and hanging ribbons with us. Our hearts go out to anyone and everyone who is touched by ANY type of cancer, a cancer diagnosis of any sort is heartbreaking and life-changing. We are thankful to our Army many who have friends and family also fighting their own battles yet who believe in our mission and see the importance to make a difference for these sweet kids and the families we serve.

Thank you to the Town of Haymarket for believing in our mission and allowing us to bring GOLD to Haymarket. Thank you to Chick-fil-A Haymarket for asking us to include Gold Ribbons on your posts as well and also to our friends at Cookies & Cream Haymarket for not only serving as our starting and finishing post but for also serving up some delicious ice cream, cookies, and bottled water for our group when we were done. Thank you also to Trish at Photography By Trisha and a few of our volunteers for capturing pictures from this event!

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! Go Gold for Kids with Cancer!