Think Pink: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer aims to raise $1 million to support research; walk set for October

The Channel Foundation kicked off this year s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in Sunrise This year s goal is to raise million to help sponsorship the fight to end breast cancer The Amerant Bank Arena turned pink Thursday night as multiple survivors and supporters hit the runway including the Panthers General Manager Bill Zito It s just a great way to bring our locality together to help raise money to help spread awareness really to help people and the Panthers are thrilled to be part of it We have a campaign Panthers on the Prowl where we re selling life size panthers that you can decorate and individualize and we ve sure had a wonderful time doing that too for a good cause and we re very lucky to be here and look forward to it explained Zito And that s not all s own Vivian Gonzalez was in attendance to emcee the event The walk takes place October in Dade and Broward