Pink Ribbon Good
Since 2018 Schnucks has been donating healthy food to the Pink Ribbon Good charity to support their life changing work in the St Louis area. In 2021 Schnucks, along with our vendor partners, is excited to continue our support in making a monetary contribution in addition to providing healthy meals. This incredible organization strives to balance the fear and uncertainty that breast and gynecological cancers bring to individuals and families by providing free direct services of healthy meals, housecleaning, rides to treatment and peer support to their clients to ensure that No One Travels This Road Alone…Pink Ribbon Good is a nonprofit organization which relies on the generosity of corporations, organizations and individuals for financial support.
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Tera Klein
Tera Klein is a 37 year old survivor of breast cancer. She is currently completing immunotherapy treatment for an aggressive type of stage 2 breast cancer. Tera was diagnosed with breast cancer in November of 2020 while seeking medical services to expand her family. She has boldly and cheerfully battled cancer and openly shares her experience with others. In spite of a terrifying diagnosis, completing chemotherapy and several surgeries; she preserved into remission and now uses her experience to give back and help others. Tera is married and has one son. She lives in Creve Coeur. She loves flowers, reads books like her life depends on it and thinks funfetti cupcakes are one of the world’s greatest inventions. She loves fashion and you can always find her at a concert, The Muny or The Fox seeing a great show. She is also a licensed clinical social worker and is passionate about helping her fellow survivors get through each day.
Tera was courageous enough to accept and appreciate help from The Pink Ribbon Girls. Tera thinks that the peer support groups and meals provided by Pink Ribbon Girls are vital to getting through having cancer. Having a network of survivors who knew exactly what she was going through was vital to her mental health and not having to worry about making meals for her family relieved a huge burden. She says the meals were not only delicious but also convenient.
Diane Bailey
Diane Bailey, 66, is a retired teacher and a breast cancer survivor from St. Louis. She was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in early 2020 — less than a year after losing her husband suddenly to congestive heart failure. After two surgeries and many months of chemotherapy and radiation, Diane can now report that she is cancer free! She is the proud grandmother of six and great grandmother of two, and she is thankful for her family, friends and faith that helped her through her battle.
Diane is also grateful for the free meals she received from Pink Ribbon Good during her most trying times when her weakness from treatment combined with her neuropathy made even the simplest tasks extraordinarily difficult. Her favorite meals were the pancakes and omelets for breakfast as well as the wild rice with chicken for lunch or dinner. Diane’s only regret is that she wasn’t aware of the other free services Pink Ribbon Good offers, such as rides to treatment, house cleaning and peer support events that connect survivors with one another. Now, Diane wants other individuals going through what she did to know help is out there, and they're not alone.
Heather Salazar
Heather Salazar is the CEO of Pink Ribbon Good. In 2003, Heather met a woman, Alexis, who took a bus home from her double mastectomy. Alexis had grown up in the foster care system and had no family support. She was 23 and had a newborn baby named Lexi. Heather and her family ended up adopting Lexi and took care of Alexis through the end of her life. This included driving her to chemo, buying her food, paying her rent and so much more. Shortly after Alexis’s death, Heather discovered she, too, had breast cancer. At the age of 31 with four small children, Heather had a double mastectomy and a year of chemo. Luckily, she had an incredible support system that helped her recover and she is now 15 years cancer-free.
Heather felt passionate about creating a non-profit organization based on her personal experience of helping Alexis and her own journey. Even though research is incredibly important, there is a need in our country for direct services for families in the fight against breast or other women’s gynecological cancers. PRG was originally founded in in Cincinnati in the early 2000’s as a group that provided peer support only. Free meals, rides to treatment and house cleaning were added when headquarters were moved to Dayton, Ohio in 2012 and Heather became CEO. Heather and her husband, Steve, live in Dayton but Heather travels regularly to St. Louis and the Bay Area where PRG has expended. Three of their four children are in college, including Lexi, who just started her freshman year on a soccer scholarship.
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