Capital City rotaract would like to thank the following businesses for helping make our first annual “Octoberfest for Breasts” a great success, with your help we are able to donate over $8,000 towards breast cancer research:

JUNEAU – Moms In Touch International, a nonprofit ministry, is celebrating 25 years of encouraging moms to pray for children and schools with an “Arise! Cry Out!” prayer event to be held locally from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Valley Chapel on Back Loop Road. Registration is from 8:30 to 9 a.m.

JUNEAU – Tickets to Alaska’s $250,000 lottery are on sale in Juneau at Marlintini’s, Henry’s, GW Teal’s and the Viking. Tickets cost $5.

JUNEAU – Local actor Roblin Gray Davis will showcase his theater techniques for building literacy and science experiences in a free workshop for teachers from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.

JUNEAU – Two Montessori School students, Olivia Van Kirk and Tori Talley, are sending clothes, stuffed animals and school supplies to children in the Philippines who have just gone through the flood.

JUNEAU – Sunkissed Tanning, is helping with St. Vincent de Paul’s food drive with a promotion called “Tans for Cans.”

JUNEAU – The Widowed Persons Program is pleased to announce a special public program, “Grief and the Holidays,” to be held at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Mendenhall Valley library conference room.

SITKA – Every third Thursday in November, millions of smokers pledge to be smoke-free for 24 hours as a part of the Great American Smokeout. To promote this event in Sitka, SEARHC health educators from the Tobacco Quit Program and the Sitka School District “Kick It” program coordinator will host information booths from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at AC-Lakeside Grocery.

JUNEAU – Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s Community Services & Self-Governance Division is sponsoring an essay contest this month in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month. The deadline is Nov. 30.

JUNEAU – As part of the Hope for Heroes program, which runs Nov. 7 to 14, the Juneau Chapter of Alpha Theta of Epsilon Sigma Alpha is collecting donations for our wounded military soldiers at Madigan Army Hospital at Fort Lewis, Wash. Boxes will be at various locations including the Mendenhall Mall, Nugget Mall and the Federal Building.