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Somerset Police go Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

On Friday, September 30th at 10 at the front lawn of the Somerset County Court House, the annual “Pink Car” ceremony will be held at the front lawn of the…

Ginny with pink police car

Ginny with pink police car

Ginny Otte

On Friday, September 30th at 10 at the front lawn of the Somerset County Court House, the annual "Pink Car" ceremony will be held at the front lawn of the Somerset County Court house (rain date October 3rd). The announcement, made by Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of County Detectives John W. Fodor and the Somerset County Chiefs of Police Association, states that five police vehicles have been wrapped in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Funds to do so were generously provided by Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health Somerset Steeplechase Cancer Center, Peapack-Gladstone Bank, and the Far Hills Race Meeting Association.

One in eight women will be affected by breast cancer in their lifetime and early detection is key.

The vehicles are equipped with QR codes to scan on the outside of the vehicle for anyone interested in scheduling a mammogram appointment through RWJ Barnabas Health.

Back in 2019 I had the pleasure of seeing one of their pink vehicles, and the officer was a good sport, posing for a picture of my getting cuffed!--Ginny

Ginny Otte is a lifelong resident of New Jersey, having grown up in Lincoln Park, and lived in Wayne. She began her career in radio as the result of a prank phone call where the on-air personality she called said “please call again tomorrow,” and the station hired her to produce the show two months later; by 2006, Ginny began working middays at WMTR, and considers spending middays with listeners for so many years to be one of the highlights of her life. Ginny’s hobbies include genetic genealogy, family trees, knitting, crocheting, camping and hiking. She is a mother to three adult children and a grandmother to one.