Imagine driving from Tumbler Ridge to Dawson Creek and seeing the entire stretch of highway lined with bras. That's the goal for two friends, Kaitlyn Lehmann and Michele Schribar.
The two young women decided to do something fun that would attract some attention to the breast cancer fight. Lehmann looked through the Guinness Book of World Records and that is where the idea came from.
"It's 120 kilometres from Tumbler [Ridge] to Dawson Creek. There isn't really any significance of those two points, other than I live in [Tumbler Ridge,]" said Lehmann.
If everything goes as planned, the girls will have enough bras connected by poles along the highway form city to city.
Lehmann and Schribar grew up together in Tumbler Ridge and Schribar, now a student at UNBC, was approached by Lenmann about the project and it was full-speed ahead from there.
"Kaitlyn put up the Facebook page before we even figured out the details and now we have more than 1,100 members," said Lehmann.
The response has been bigger than they ever imagined.
"We've had bras sent to us from Ontario, the Maritimes, all over the place," said Lehmann.
The girls decorated garbage cans and businesses in Tumbler Ridge, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Slave Lake to name a few. Schribar is accepting donations at her UNBC dorm room.
The girls have estimated that if the average bra-size is 34 inches, that will mean it will take approximately 1,158 bras per kilometre. With the goal being 120 kilometres, they are aiming to collect 140,000 bras in the next six to 10 months.
The duo will eventually be looking for companies to sponsor a kilometre worth of bras to raise funds for the B.C. Cancer Foundation.
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