Tulip time

Avon sales representatives across Canada recently turned in their cosmetics bags for garden trowels and planted 140,000 pink tulip bulbs in support of Avon Canada's Breast Cancer Crusade. Local Avon representatives and supporters planted more than 800 bulbs near the welcome to Halton Hills sign on Hwy. 7. The tulips represented women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, those who have died from the disease since the campaign began in 1992 and Avon sales reps across Canada. Among those digging in locally were, from left, Dana Markoff, Cheryl Gerber, Monica Spencer (all of Brampton), Georgetown's Susan Maik, Avon district manager for Caledon, Brampton, Erin and Georgetown, Kim Gillies of Georgetown, Lisa Markoff and Sara Gerber, of Brampton.