The 6th Annual Tea at Two Fashion show is scheduled for May 6th at The Inn on the Lake in Canandaigua.  The event starts at 2pm and will include latest fashions as well as tea and snacks.  Billy Kidd from WBEE will be the MC for the event.  Doors will open at 1pm to allow time to view the silent auction.

Tickets are $30 and are being sold at The Inn on the Lake, Lynch’s Furniture, Icon Salon, and Country Ewe

We are also looking for sponsors to off set some of our costs and accepting auction donations. Please contact Karen Baker kbaker42@hotmail.com or Megan Benjamin freidamegan@yahoo.com

Join us on 12/8/11 by donating to Embrace Yours Sisters through ROC the Day!

Simply log on to ROCtheDay.org and choose EYS as your charity of choice and donate!

The Canandaigua Soccer Teams hosted the 2nd Annual Pink Out Soccer Game. It was another successful event!  The soccer teams raised money through donations, raffles, and t-shirt sales.  It was amazing to see the kids come together to help Embrace Your Sisters!

2nd Annual Chefs, Wine and Art

Presented by Wegmans and the New York Wine and Culinary Center was another successful event.  Over 100 people attend the event and enjoyed wine tastings, food tastings, food pairing classes, and a wonderful silent auction!

Halloween ZUMBATHON Charity Event-Oct. 28th

The 2nd Annual Halloween FUNdraiser was held at  The Inn on the Lake and was a huge success.  The group raised $3185, to be split between Embrace Your Sisters & towards sending our local veterans to participate in the 2012 Golden Age Games in St. Louis!

Bonfire in the Back Yard – June 15th.

Icon Salon presented the first Bonfire in the Back Yard at Steamboat Landing.  The event was a huge success.  Many people came to enjoy great food, live music, and raffles.  Proceeds from the event have been donated to Embrace Your Sisters!

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Pink Days at Lilac Hill Nursery – June 4-5th

Lilac Hill Nursery held the first Pink Days.  Proceeds from the weekend sales were donated to EYS!

Doc Lilac goes Pink for Breast Cancer!

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2011 Greek Festival, Rochester NY- June 2 – 5th

Embrace Your Sisters was the Featured Charity for the 2011 Greek Festival.  On Friday, June 3rd, EYS was honored to be the recipient of the $5000 donation from the  Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation.  EYS members participated in the festival by collecting donations on Philanthropy Night and hosting an EYS booth throughout the event.

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2011 Tea at Two Fashion Show

The 5th annual Tea at Two Fashion Show was a huge success!  Over 200 people attended the event that was held on May 22nd at Steamboat Landing in Canandaigua.  16 local models showed clothing from local merchants including the Country Ewe, Bubilu, Wildflowers, and Dick Anthony’s.  Icon Salon donated their time to do hair and makeup for the models.

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October 2nd – Canandaguia Downtown Fall Festival Booth
Embrace Your Sisters had a booth downtown for people to come check out our merchandise, raffles and much more!
Embrace Your Sisters was downtown Canandaguia 10:00am-4:00pm

October 6th – Honeoye United Church of Christ
Also supporting Embrace Your Sisterscould have been done by attending the Honeoye United Church of Christ.
Wednesday, October 6th, from 5-7pm for there delicious Spaghetti Supper & mouth watering homemade desserts! Take out was available for only $6!!! People were asked to bring along a non-perishable item for their local food pantry! Support two organizations at once and get a GREAT meal!!

October 8th – Pink Out
Canandaigua Soccer Community PINK OUT!!  A community service event to benefit “Embrace Your Sisters”

On Friday, October 8th, 6:30 pm, at the Canandaigua Girls Varsity Soccer game vs. Irondequoit!!  Click here for more information.  Order your Pink Tshirt today!

To show support to Canandaigua Soccer and Embrace Your Sisters everyone wore pink and  helped pack the stands with a sea of pink!

October 17th - Chefs Wine and Art at the Culinary Center

October 24th - Pizza Uno discount night

Supporters of Embrace Your Sisters were asked to visit Uno Chicago Grill in Victor on Oct 24 and they will donate a portion of your meal to EYS.  You could have picked up your free ticket at any of our October Paint the Town Pink Events or print off your ticket by clicking Uno Ticket.

October 28th – Doc’s Lakeside Seafood and Steakehouse
Doc’s Lakeside Seafood and Steakhouse Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser supporting those with breast Cancer

6:00 pm at Doc’s Lakeside Seafood and Steakhouse
726 South Main Street Canandaigua, NY 14424
$35.00 per plate Buffet includes: Seafood, Chicken, Beef, salads, desserts

All proceeds went FF Thompson Breast Health Navigation and Embrace Your Sisters

4th Annual Tea @ 2

Fourth Annual “Embracing Fashion with Tea at 2” was held on Sunday, May 16, 2010 from 2-5 PM at Bristol Harbour in Canandaigua. Embrace Your Sisters would like to thank everyone who made this event possible.

Steve Hausmann of WBEE Radio was the emcee for the event this year again! Models wore fashions from The Country Ewe, CAbi, Wildflowers and Eastview!

Bon-Ton Community Day

Embrace Your Sisters would like to thank Bon-Ton for supporting our organization during the Community Day Sale.  We would also like to thank all of our members who helped to sell coupon books

3rd Annual Paint the Towns Pink

The 3rd Annual “Paint the Towns Pink” was a huge success this year.  We were again able to expand our events and network in new areas!  This year we raised over $12,000 throughout the month of October!!!

Drink in the Arts

We held the first annual Drink in The Arts event at the Three Brother’s Winery in Geneva.

Terri VanBrooker ran the Atlanta Marathon!

Terri VanBrooker, one of the Embrace Your Sisters board members, ran in the Atlanta Marathon.  She completed the race with her brother, Bill, finishing the 26.2 miles in 4 hours, 47 minutes.  That is an average of 10 minutes, 57 seconds per mile!  Terri, not only raised over $3500 for Embrace Your Sisters, but also had over 150 signatures of those who donated on her shirt.

Terri reported that “this has been an emotional  experience for me. I’m overwhelmed by the community support, the support I have received from my co-workers, and the fabulous feeling of doing something like this with my family.  I am truly blessed.”

Embrace Your Sisters would like to thank Terri for her extreme dedication and generosity.

3rd Annual Tea @ 2

Third Annual “Embracing Fashion with Tea at 2” was held on Sunday, May 3, 2009

from 2-5 PM at The Inn On The Lake in Canandaigua. Embrace Your Sisters would like to thank everyone who made this event possible.

Steve Hausmann of WBEE Radio was the emcee for the event this year! Fashions from Cache, Eddie Bauer, H&M, Lord & Taylor and more!

Thanks to our Fun-Raiser Friends!

The ‘Fun Raiser’ was a tremendous success.  Well over 100 people attended the event which offered hors d’oeuvers, door prizes and a 2009 fashion show sneak preview.  Attendees also learned how to become involved and many took the opportunity to become members.

With this growing network of support, Embrace Your Sisters looks forward to helping even more people in our community who are suffering from breast cancer.

Thank you to everyone who attended.

EYS featured in The Daily Messenger

On October 18, 2009, The Daily Messenger ran TWO articles on breast cancer. The front page “Freestyle” section article reported on the work and “warm embrace” of EYS.

An interior page article was a feature on breast cancer local heros. Our own EYS Co-Founder, Chrisann Philipson, was featured in that article where she also talked about the great work EYS is doing.
Congratulations, Chrisann!

Pilates Plus Supports EYS

Jodi Brennan from Pilates Plus joined News 8′s Katrina Irwin on News 8 at Sunrise to talk about working out for people with bad backs and an upcoming event to raise money for EYS!
http://rochesterhomepage.net/search-fulltext?nxd_id=127652

News 8 Features EYS

Tracy Brown, a cancer survivor and Daisie Stanley, President of EYS were interviewed on News 8 at noon.
Watch the video:
http://rochesterhomepage.net/search-fulltext?nxd_id=124832

EYS featured in YNN news

http://rochester.ynn.com/content/348466/helping-pay-the-cancer-bills/

http://rochester.ynn.com/content/342976/fund-covers-what-insurance-does-not/

EYS High School Cheer!

Alisha, one of the women of EYS has developed a a cheer for high schools. EYS is now developing how this cheer might be used to both raise funds for the organization and also to raise awareness in our region’s young women about the importance of learning early detection techniques.

This Quicktime® video features the Honeoye Falls Junior Varsity Cheerleading Squad performing this unique and original cheer, developed to raise awareness among the area’s youth.

EYS Cheer (Quicktime) (Movie will open in separate window. Please allow up to one minute for movie to load after you click the link. It will start automatically once it has loaded far enough)

(If you don’t have Quicktime you can download it here for free)

For more information on how you or your school can help with this special initiative, please contact us.

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A lovely afternoon for a Fashion Show & Tea @ 2 held at beautiful Bristol Harbor Resort overlooking Canandaigua Lake!  Breast Cancer Survivors and their friends and family modeled beautiful spring apparel from The Country Ewe & Wildflowers, both in Canandaigua, and Eastview Mall in Victor!