The Frankfort Police Department continues to raise awareness and display their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October by sporting a newly pink vehicle.
Chief Scott Shoemaker stated that Seth Pendleton, owner of Aidex Graphics in Rossville, offered to reinvent a police vehicle to display a pink color scheme in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. Shoemaker expressed that the police department holds a deep-rooted appreciation for those affected by breast cancer, and the officers dedicate themselves to spreading awareness every October in support of those affected.
“We’ve got several employees who have family members, some who have died and a lot of survivors, who have experiences with breast cancer,” Shoemaker said. “Last year, we started wearing pink shirts for October, and this year we did that again. We got a call from Aidex Graphics in Rossville, Seth, and he wanted to turn one of our cars pink at his cost, and he would put it back after the month is over.”
Shoemaker commented that Captain Evan Hall will cruise around the Frankfort area behind the wheel of the newly pink vehicle in support of his mother and other survivors of breast cancer in the community.
“I talked to Captain Evan Hall, whose mother, Cathy, is a survivor, so what better car to put it on than Evan Hall’s car,” Shoemaker said. “That’s who will be driving the pink car for the next month.”
Hall expressed that he gladly accepted the opportunity to operate the vehicle in support of his mother as well as every person in the community that has been impacted by breast cancer throughout their lives, and he commented that he hopes that community members will continue thinking about Breast Cancer Awareness Month every time they see the new decals on his vehicle.
“My mom got diagnosed with breast cancer when I was a senior in high school,” Hall said. “A lot of the officers here and just everyone in the community has been affected by breast cancer in one way or another. I am thankful for Seth at Aidex Graphics for thinking about this and donating the time and everything that he had in this vehicle to let all those affected by breast cancer know that we are thinking about them.”
Shoemaker stated that the police department has continued to raise awareness for breast cancer as well as other forms of cancer for the past few years by changing the decals on their uniforms to reflect the pink accents and altering their social media profiles to reflect the pink ribbon for breast cancer, and the vehicle is another step toward the police department’s goals of raising awareness every year.
“Cancer just has affected everybody,” Shoemaker. “Name somebody that hasn’t had a connection with somebody that has had it. We’ve had people here that have had it and fought it, so we just want to put a spotlight on that.”
Shoemaker urged the community to continue raising awareness for breast cancer and every form of cancer by donating to research organizations that focus on finding a cure for those diagnosed.
“This is our community too, and we’re not just taking people to jail and writing tickets,” Shoemaker said. “That’s probably really about 20% of our work here is enforcing the law, and the other part is keeping people safe and being a part of the community by doing events like this.”
Shoemaker stated that Aidex Graphics has volunteered to return the decals to the Frankfort Police Department color scheme following the end of October, but Shoemaker expressed that the he hopes the impact of the pink decals shines on the entire community of Frankfort and helps continue to raise awareness beyond the dedicated month.