Lisburn City Council goes gold for cancer

By The Newsroom
Published 27th Sep 2014, 09:38 BST
Elected Members and Senior Management Officers join the Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Andrew Ewing outside the 'Lit Up Gold' Lagan Valley Island to raise awareness of childhood cancer.Elected Members and Senior Management Officers join the Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Andrew Ewing outside the 'Lit Up Gold' Lagan Valley Island to raise awareness of childhood cancer.
Elected Members and Senior Management Officers join the Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Andrew Ewing outside the 'Lit Up Gold' Lagan Valley Island to raise awareness of childhood cancer.
Lisburn City Council lit up its Civic Centre headquarters gold recently to raise awareness of childhood cancer for the second year.

This initiative is co-ordinated by Northern Ireland Cancer Fund for Children and Childhood Cancer Foundation to ensure all the counties will shine gold.

The Mayor of Lisburn, Councillor Andrew Ewing, speaking about ‘Light It Up Gold’, said: “I am very pleased that on the evening of the September Full Council meeting the civic headquarters will be coloured gold.

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“Childhood cancer sadly is a reality and has many issues including severity of chemotherapy treatment, radiotherapy treatment and lifelong side effects.