Plunging for Pink to be held at Austin’s Eastside Lake Saturday

Plunging For Pink, one of the Paint the Town Pink initiative’s main events held each year at Austin’s Eastside Lake to raise funds towards breast cancer research at the Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota in Austin will be held tomorrow (Saturday) at Austin’s Eastside Lake. Emma Tran, one of the new organizers for this year’s event spoke with KAUS and stated that because of the warmer weather as of late, there will be a slight change for tomorrow’s event…

Crystal Steinbach, another one of the new organizers for this year’s event gave a rundown of some of the activities going on Saturday leading up to the main event…

The plunge will start at 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon, and more information concerning the event is available on the Plunging for Pink Facebook page at facebook.com/plungingforpink, and also at plungeforpink.com.  Over the last ten years, the participants of the event have helped to raise over $600,000 towards breast cancer research at the Institute.