Gunnison Tough In the News
2024 Volunteers of the Year
Congratulations to our Volunteers of the Year, Doug Dixon and Noah Mensing! The most dependable, kind hearted, and helpful folks around, Gunnison Tough is so grateful for both of your years of hard work supporting our needs. Doug has been helping with the set up and...
Sowing Good Deeds
Gunnison Cattlemen's Days Rodeo Receives Prestigious Sowing Good Deeds PRCA Award [Gunnison, Colo. Dec 7, 2024] — Gunnison Cattlemen's Days, a cornerstone event in the Gunnison Valley for the last 123 years, is thrilled to announce that it has been honored with the...
Mt Crested Butte Town Council Grant
The Mt. Crested Butte Town Council awarded TETWP $134,750 for their Songwriter Shuffle Winter Concert Series throughout the winter season to bring in well-known award-winning Nashville singer-songwriters.
Automated Whole-Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) Screening Technology Purchase
Women in the Gunnison Valley will soon have access to another piece of cutting-edge equipment to aid in the early detection of breast cancer. Nationally, 40% of women have dense breasts, putting them 4-6 times higher at risk of getting breast cancer. Gunnison Valley...
Gunnison Valley Health Oncology Staff Helps Ease an Uncomfortable Situation
Oncology Staff Helps Ease an Uncomfortable Situation. In April of 2022, Elaine Clark went in for a routine mammogram at Gunnison Valley Health that ended up saving her life. The mammogram found evidence of cancer necessitating Elaine to undergo lumpectomy surgery, and to remove three lymph nodes.
Catch It Early Cancer Screenings Save Lives
Gunnison Gathers Together for Valentine’s Day
Original article: Gunnison Country Times, Thursday, February 16, 2023 Photos by Morgan Raspenti Local business owner Jermaine Rodney hosted a Jamaican night on Valentine's Day at the Fred Field Center to benefit Gunnison’s Tough Enough to Wear Pink and Gunnison Valley...
12th Annual Crested Butte in Dallas
Chris Kopf of Coldwell Banker, Mountain Properties, host of the 12th Annual Crested Butte in Dallas Gathering, notes in his November 2022 newsletter: 12th Annual Crested Butte Gathering in Dallas – TETWP: every year during the middle of November I am super excited to...
Thank You Tough Enough to Wear Pink!
Thank You Tough Enough to Wear Pink! Gunnison Valley Health will soon have access to a new piece of cutting-edge equipment thanks to the generosity of Cattlemen’s Days Tough Enough to Wear Pink. The donation of nearly $14,000 will fund the purchase of the Chudo Next...
A Sisterhood I Didn’t Choose – Lisa’s Story
Original Article from GunnisonValleyHealth.org Oct 12, 2022 Lisa Taaca believes in giving back to her community and when she learned about the incredible work being done by the team at Tough Enough to Wear Pink, she knew she wanted to be involved. Lisa began...
‘Grit, Guts and Gals’ celebrates the power of friendship
Atalaya Hausdoerffer, Emily Cattles and Ava Baeir use knees for pedals on Strider bikes at the “Grit, Guts and Gals” event at I Bar Ranch on Aug. 18. This annual event is jointly organized by Cattlemen’s Days Tough Enough to Wear Pink and the gO Initiative. Event...
Kentucky Derby winning Rich Strike Sporting Pink
Original Post: Tough Enough to Wear Pink Facebook Page Look who is Tough Enough to Wear Pink! Kentucky Derby winning Rich Strike is sporting his TETWP pink blanket while hanging out in the Saratoga barns getting ready for his Travers Stakes race on Saturday, August...