The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society announced that the Georgia Pest Control Association (GPCA) raised over $113,000 statewide for the Georgia Chapter’s 2005 Annual Light The Night ® Walks. Eighteen GPCA companies statewide solicited donations from their customers upon completing pest control services. Many companies also matched the donations of their customers. The GPCA also hosted a golf tournament to benefit the Society and help support the more than 747,000 patients currently fighting blood cancers.
GPCA partners include Advanced Services, Allgood Pest Solutions, Arrow Exterminators, Athens Exterminating, Bug Busters, Bug Out Services, Carroll Exterminating, Chemical Technologies, Cook’s Pest Control, Cox Termite, Expest, Garland Services, North Fulton Exterminating, Northwest Exterminating, Peachtree Pest Control, Southeastern Exterminating, Stewart Services and Terminix.
Light The Night is a nationwide evening fundraising walk to celebrate andcommemorate lives touched by cancer. In Georgia, Light The Night’s fundraising efforts have grown tremendously, with over $1 million raised this year. Walkers carry illuminated balloons along the 2-3 mile walk routes – cancer patients and survivors carry white balloons as “lights of hope” and supporting participants carry red balloons.
Interested or potential sponsors, corporate teams or individual walkers, please call (770) 438-6006 or (800) 399-7312 or visit www.lightthenight.org/ga.