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Volunteers Needed for Local 3-Day Water Station

Business owner Michelle Jackaki sets up a post at City Hall to aid Komen for the Cure walkers.

For the past three years, Focal Point Studio of Photography co-owner Michele Jakacki has been making sure walkers in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure know Farmington supports them.

Jakacki encourages downtown Farmington business owners to decorate their stores in pink, the signature color for the race to raise funds for breast cancer research and community education, screening and treatment programs. She works with other volunteers to set up a water station where walkers will be given water donated from merchants and . They'll also be able to dunk their "do-rags" in buckets of cold water.

"We'll be decorating on Thursday," she said, "and setting up on Friday morning. We can always use more volunteers, even if they can give me just a shift between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m."

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Jakacki's own experience with cancer motivates her. She is a six-year survivor of breast cancer, having had a double mastectomy and chemotherapy.

"I'm feeling good about it," she said of her experience, adding she's "a big preacher of getting rid of 'em." Jakacki feels that eliminates the worry of a recurrence.

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The 3-Day opening ceremony will be held at the on Friday at 6:30 a.m. Walkers are expected to be in Farmington Hills later that morning and usually reach downtown Farmington around 1 or 2 p.m., Jakacki said.

The water station this year will be located in front of . If you can help, stop by or contact Jakacki at 248-478-1113.


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