The Regional Medical Center's fourth annual Pink Ribbon Luncheon is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 7.

The luncheon, sponsored the Junior Service League of Orangeburg, will be held at The Cinema in the Orangeburg Mall. Registration opens at 11 a.m, and the luncheon will be held at noon.

The luncheon is an outgrowth of the RMC's annual Women's Health Forum, which reaches out to women battling and surviving the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in South Carolina. The event aims to raise funds to benefit breast cancer programs at the hospital.

Reservations are $55 per person, and people will be registered by name. There are approximately 350 spaces available. Paid reservations are due Tuesday, Sept. 23. The luncheon will be catered by Buckridge Plantation.

Chairwoman of the event is RMC Foundation Board emeritus member Edna Fischer. Vice chairwoman for the event is Gail Gressette.

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eatured speaker at the Pink Ribbon Luncheon will be CNN news anchor Fredricka Whitfield. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Whitfield anchors the weekend edition of "CNN Newsroom."

Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported from the Persian Gulf region during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the debates over public displays of the Ten Commandments and arrests in the arson cases involving black churches in Alabama.

Before CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for "NBC Nightly News" and other programs for the network, including "The Today Show." She began her professional career as a reporter and morning anchor for WCIV in Charleston.

Since its inception, the Pink Ribbon Luncheon has netted $66,903 and raised the awareness of breast cancer. And since January 2005, approximately $133,376 has been raised for breast cancer initiatives at the hospital.

For more information or reservations, call 803-395-2321.

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