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Uplifting tales inspire 'art bras'

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Published 10/19/06


Pam Schweitzer would love to participate in the runs to raise money for breast cancer research and education, but her knees just won't allow it.

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Photo by Pamela Wood — The Capital Pam Schweitzer of Crofton displays “A Couple of Spring Chickens,” her decorated “art bra” that won first place in a county Health Department contest. Ms. Schweitzer wrote of her quilted chickens, “These old clucks never forget their screenings.”
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So she found a more unusual way to help the cause: quilting a pair of chickens on a size 36C bra for a contest aimed at raising awareness of breast cancer.

"I thought this was something I could do," the Crofton woman said.

And though she found out about the contest only three...

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