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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - The fourth annual CIBC Run for Our Lives breast cancer fundraiser was launched on Wednesday last week with the unveiling of a new promotional painting by Rosalee Wright-Prentice of Hay River.

Rosalee Wright-Prentice unveils the painting she made for this year's Run for Our Lives fundraiser for breast cancer. Wright-Prentice was commissioned to create the image to promote the event. - Jason Emiry/NNSL photo

The painting, titled Faces of Healing, portrays women of different ethnicities.

"It represents healing," said Wright-Prentice. "Cancer doesn't care what race you come from."

She works in various media including oil, leather, graphics, textiles, pen and ink and photography under the name of Ladyslipper Design Artworks.

Faces of Healing is the fourth painting in a series called Journey Suite. The first three were called Anguish, Grace and Hope and were done in black and white. The pieces demonstrate the experience cancer survivors go through on their way to recovery.

This year's Run for Our Lives event will take place Oct. 5. The event began in 2005, replacing the CIBC Run for the Cure in the NWT. Funds raised by the Run for Our Lives are managed by the Stanton Territorial Hospital Foundation.

Runs will take place in Hay River, Inuvik, Norman Wells, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith and Yellowknife.

Last year's event raised $185,211, which was donated to Stanton Territorial Hospital, the NWT Breast Health/Breast Cancer Action Group and the Avon Flame Foundation for national breast cancer research. The campaign has raised $454,736 since 2005.

Cheryl Robinson, the Run for Our Lives media liaison, said the success of the run relies on the participation of community members.

"We're rapidly spreading through the communities of the NWT," said Robinson. "That way we can get more people involved and more people aware of what we're doing and how the money is supporting the NWT."