October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Hardly a family, circle of friends and neighbors, or group of co-workers exists that has not been touched by this potentially fatal disease.

Mary Vosburg's Perry Hall Avon Group lost a very dear associate to breast cancer. Lorena Urbina, a successful Avon representative and unit leader, was only 25 years old when she died in May 2008.

Diagnosed at age 24, she found she was expecting a baby at the same time. Even though her cancer had already metastasized to her lungs, her willpower and determination to have her baby stood amazingly strong. Lorena maintained a positive attitude and delivered a healthy baby girl in December 2007, and died from cancer five months later.

Please join the Perry Hall Avon Group in honoring the life of their friend and sister representative. An Avon fundraiser will take place at the White Marsh Mall Food Court Oct. 24-26 during mall hours.

The proceeds go to the family survivors of Lorena -- her husband Jorge, 5-year-old son Christopher and baby daughter Gabriella.

For more information, contact Avon executive unit leader Mary Vosburg at 410-529-6629.

Trick or treat in your Halloween costume at The Avenue at White Marsh on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. This offer is good at participating merchants only until the candy is gone.

Patience, please, as Baltimore County works on a major water project on Belair Road. Crews are laying 8,850 feet of pipe between White Marsh Boulevard (Route 43) and Ebenezer Road.

This will increase line capacity, improve water pressure and help ensure adequate fire protection. Construction will take place at night to minimize traffic congestion and day crews will line and clean the existing pipe.

Taking more than a year to complete, the $5.5 million project is expected to finish before the end of 2009 or early 2010.

To share your news, announcement or event in the Perry Hall/Kingsville area, call Shelley at 410-256-7043 or send e-mail to write2shell@yahoo.com. Thanks for reading.

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