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Health & Fitness

Komen for the Cure - Pittsburgh Goes Wrong

Donated bras mar the view of our beautiful river.

The local community has enjoyed a long association with what is now called Komen for the Cure - Pittsburgh, a well-intentioned charity which seeks to diminish the scourge of breast cancer.

It saddens me to note that the organization has apparently descended into an "anything for donations" credo and demonstrated poor judgment through a misguided effort to spur additional revenue: a tacky and tasteless display of hundreds of donated bras which currently pollutes the view of a significant portion of the river on the North Shore as they hang on fencing between the Riverwalk and the water.

The planks of dignified and civil society are being yanked away one by one, but even in this era of "anything goes", I would not have expected an organization that is associated with many individuals of distinction to seek to offend and disgust.

I look forward to the day that our beautiful river can again be observed in a picturesque setting without the landscape being soiled by a tawdry display: no class.

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