Pink Ribbon Tour Upcoming Events

August 9th: Margaritaville

Westgate City Center Glendale (5-9pm)

August 10: Next Coffee Company

119420 N 59th ave (Just south of the 101 on the west side of the street (8-11am)

Please join us for our last ribbon making party.

August 11th: Pine Wood Country Club

(Munds Park) (8am-4pm)

August 12th: Charles Schwab

3133 E. Camelback SWC 2nd building south of Camelback (11-1pm)

August 13th:Charles Schwab

Stech/Data Center 4750 E Francisco Dr. 3blocks south of baseline (11-1pm)

August 20th League of Arizona Cities and Towns

(A conference with all the Mayor's and council members from around the state) (5-9pm) Camelback Inn 5402 E. Lincoln Dr

August 21st:Charles Schwab

The Peak 2423 E. Lincoln Dr NWC Lincoln and 24th st. (11-1pm)

August 23rd: The Phoenix Theatre

NEC Central and McDowell (100 E. McDowell rd) 10-4pm. We will be on stage from 11:30-12:30pm to explain are goals and story of how we got started. There will be a mobile on-site Mammography to perform mammograms.

August 24th: Arrowhead Towne Centre Mall

(Between the Starbucks and Movie theatre in the Amphitheatre We hope to have a collection of fire trucks from each city in the valley. We are asking that each fire truck have some sign of pink on it in support of our women. We are asking all motorcycle enthusiasts to please wear pink and

escort our pink truck to Tucson. Gathering around 10am and leaving at 11am

This will be a big day for the event and we want everybody to please show up.

Governor of Arizona signs Pink Fire Truck

We have come a long way since September of last year, when I came up with the idea of driving a pink fire truck with a statue behind it across America. The truck and statue are full of signatures from women that either have breast cancer, a breast cancer survivor, lost somebody to breast cancer or a women who just wants to acknowledge her support for what we are doing. We are getting support from Mayor's and Chiefs from all over the Country and the list is growing every day.

July 17 at 10am was one of our biggest days yet, when the Governor of Arizona came walking down the steps at the Capitol to sign our beautiful pink fire truck, yes she too is a breast cancer survivor. Governor Janet Napolitano said some wonderful things about our event and was so gracious to everyone there, that I plan on visiting the Capitol next January while they are in session. We are going to touch so many lives with this truck and statue and her support will not go unnoticed as we make our way to other cities across America. She truly leads by example and not by title, we are lucky to have her.

Meeting friends along our journey is Great!!!!!

While driving down the Mountain our breaks got hot so we had to pull into Pine AZ. While there we met Tracy and Harold who happened to pull into the parking lot to take a look at the Pink fire truck and it so happened they new how to work on Semi trucks. They gave us a little class on the engine and brakes and even told me how to use my gears and brakes while going down the mountains. In a sense they could have saved our lives, we all know what would have happened if the brakes went out on the truck. They even went home and brought back some tools and road reflectors to give us, just in case!! Tracy and Harold are the reason this event is so great and why this Country is awesome and they are the many reasons why this event has been so successful. We even invited them to come along the two month journey to help out, we all know what kind of mechanic I am. lol Thanks Tracy and Harold, keep the food in the refrigerator cold, we will be back to see you guys. Dave and Lisa

July 4th celebration in Show Low was a HIT!!!!!!!

We took the pink fire truck and statue of the ribbon to Show Low AZ over the weekend and it was quite a hit with the locals. Thanks goes out to Karen Lynn from the dispatch center and Dan from the Fire department for making the weekend a great success for the women of Show Low. I also want to thank Fire Chief Owen's and his wife and son Brian for helping me with fixing the truck and donating a few lights. Show Low Fire and Police are going to be in pink on the 25th, 26th and 27th of October.

Comedy event at the Tempe Center for the Arts

We had a great time and it was good to see the people that I talk to on the computer, at the event. Maricopa metals, Intense marketing all showed up and even my good friend Tom Anson and Lou from http://www.go-mdi.com/ surprised me by flying out from Chicago to support the event. Tom and Lou are the ones that are doing the web-site on their own time and money and they even designed the pink heals logo for our organization. I want to thank the comedians especially Jeffrey Maxwell for his time and energy and for his wife for showing up to the show and staying the whole time, being 7 months pregnant. This is work in progress and after each event we have new ideas and more people on our side. Thanks for the support at the show and look forward to seeing everybody at our next event, hopefully at the Diamondbacks game. Dave

My story of how this started!

Wally Monsivaiz a Las Cruces fire fighter and good friend, called me one day, he said that his department and City where going pink for the month of October and that the fire fighters had agreed to wear pink shirts. The next morning after a long shower, everything just clicked in my head, all these ideas and thoughts about how I could bring thousands of people together to support a fight against breast cancer.
Since I can remember I loved helping make a difference, I have always enjoyed meeting new people, and most of all I have always enjoyed inspiring others to try new things. I can't always say that things have to personally effect me to get out and make a difference, I just love life. I'm in total control of how I want to live it and I choose to live my life by creating new ways to inspire people to do more for some who need help. That is how we got to this point in my life with a pink fire truck and a stainless steel statue of a ribbon on a pink trailer. I am sure there are things that I have forgotten or things that I could do better, but the story behind this journey is one that will be told for a long time. I can't wait for everybody to see how many signatures of support and Love are already on the pink truck and trailer, it is very emotional.
So the Guardians of the Ribbon are on the Pink Ribbon Tour and they are spreading the "Cares Enough to Wear Pink Campaign" We are spreading awareness for the fight against breast cancer, we are asking the public safety and leaders in the community to wear pink to work on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of October. We want the women in this Country who see a fire fighter or police officer in pink, to please go and get a mammogram. As we sell our merchandise and raise money, we would like our pink truck and statue to go on missions of Love to a breast cancer patients home and bring her hope. These missions will include care packages delivered in pink gear and most of all we want to pay some of her bills due to her fight against this deadly disease.
I am asking that the money raised in each City we go to be directed to a charity of thier choosing that helps women who have been affected by cancer. I am not asking for any money from anybody in the Public Safety, but just to Care Enough to Wear Pink for our Woman and a few men who have this deadly disease.

We Have A Pink Fire Truck!!!!!!

We worked on this fire truck for two days straight with NO sleep at Intense Marketing. Rob Johnson the owner and Jeff, Manual, Steve and myself worked as hard as we could without sleep, so we could have this ready for tomorrow on channel 12. We will be on the show with the truck and ribbon and have our pink turnouts on as well. This has been a true miracle to come this far in such a short time, we have been truly blessed. Thank You!!!!

This is Tracy Soto, she pulled over to see the truck and thanked us for what we are doing. She told me that she was an 11 year breast cancer survivor and I had her be the first person to sign the truck. My dream from the very beginning was to have the trailer and truck full of signatures, which is starting to come true. Thanks again from the bottom of my heart for supporting this event and believing in me.