Pink Up Cape celebration

Around 300 people line the outside of the Cancer Institute which is highlighted with pink lights during the Pink Up Cape celebration Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Fireworks explode in the night sky as the Pink Up Cape celebration winds down Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Around 300 people line the outside of the Cancer Institute which is highlighted with pink lights during the Pink Up Cape celebration Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Fireworks explode in the night sky as the Pink Up Cape celebration winds down Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Around 300 people line the outside of the Cancer Institute which is highlighted with pink lights during the Pink Up Cape celebration Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Fireworks explode in the night sky as the Pink Up Cape celebration winds down Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Dexter, Mo. native Candy Coburn performs her song "Pink Warrior" Wednesday, September 28, 2011 during the Pink Up Cape celebration at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Laura Simon)

Fireworks explode in the night sky as the Pink Up Cape celebration winds down Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Southeast Missouri State University's Rowdy the Redhawk visits with children at the Pink Up Cape celebration Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)

Dexter, Mo. native Candy Coburn performs her song "Pink Warrior" Wednesday, September 28, 2011 during the Pink Up Cape celebration at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Laura Simon)

Fireworks explode in the night sky as the Pink Up Cape celebration winds down Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The celebration kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Saint Francis Medical Center's Pink Up Cape is a breast cancer awareness campaign and the funds benefit Dig for Life which provides free mammograms to local women who could otherwise not afford to have one. (Laura Simon)