Before the game against Lake Erie College takes place on Saturday, many pink discs will be fly­ing through the air.

Since October is breast can­cer aware­ness month, Ferris stu­dents plan on toss­ing about 2,500 pink discs into the air in hopes of break­ing the cur­rent world record of fly­ing discs which is 1,903. That record was set by South Carolina’s Hilton Head Inn in 1988.

“Paint Big Rapids Pink” is set to begin at 5:30 p.m. at Top Taggart Field prior to kick­off at 7 p.m.

Brian Pacholka, national elas­tomer cen­ter lab man­ager, said that approx­i­mately 2,800 discs have been cre­ated for the event.

In a uni­ver­sity news report, Pacholka said, “The goal for this event is to cre­ate fun for the cam­pus and the Big Rapids com­mu­nity for a good cause.”

Pacholka has also pro­duced plas­tic discs for ori­en­ta­tion, give­aways and var­i­ous events on cam­pus. In addi­tion, he said, “It’s also nice to receive recog­ni­tion for the plas­tic engi­neer­ing tech­nol­ogy pro­gram at Ferris because of the time the pro­gram has spent devel­op­ing this project.”

A Facebook event page titled “Guinness World Record Flying Disc Toss Challenge — Paint Big Rapids Pink” was cre­ated by Nicole Leyder from the Mecosta County Medical Center to invite Ferris stu­dents and the Big Rapids com­mu­nity to the event.

The page stated there will be a ten minute win­dow between the game’s pre-practice and the kick-off to get all par­tic­i­pants on the field, beat the record, and clear the field to avoid a penalty for the foot­ball team. Announcers will pro­vide directions.

Currently, the event page indi­cates that 465 peo­ple are plan­ning on attend­ing. The page states that can­cer sur­vivors will receive free admis­sion to the game and to con­tact Tom Hogenson at 592‑4409 for tick­ets. Tickets for adults will cost $7 each. FSU staff, senior cit­i­zens and K-12 stu­dent tick­ets cost $5 apiece. A group rate of $4 per ticket is avail­able for groups of 20 or more by call­ing ext. 2888.

All gifts col­lected will be donated to the Susan P. Wheatlake Women’s Cancer and Wellness Fund.

In the Aug. 26 issue of the Torch, Lynn Scheible, Paint Big Rapids Pink com­mit­tee mem­ber, said she hopes for 3,000 peo­ple to get involved. Scheible also said last year’s events raised $25,000.

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