Herald Newsletter 10-18-2024

Friday, October 18, 2024

Students walk through Centennial Mall in the Pink Walk hosted by SGA, PAN, IFC and NHC honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Oct. 17, 2024. Photo by Ava Davis.

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Tony Lopez and his wife Jenny Lopez work with new inventory for their local Bricks & Minifigs store on Scottsville Road in Bowling Green. Photo by Gabriel Milby.

Read more by Kane Smith

Bailey Reed, Newsletter Editor

Good morning, Hilltoppers!

Today's newsletter features a story on Bricks & Minifigs, a locally owned business for all Lego lovers out there, as well as SGA's Pink Walk Happy Friday!

Students walk for breast cancer awareness at SGA Pink Walk

The WKU Student Government Association Pink Walk brought the WKU and local community together Thursday night to honor those affected by breast cancer and raise awareness about the disease during Breast Cancer Awareness Month

The SGA Pink Walk, created and hosted by SGA Vice President Donte Reed, aimed to spread awareness about breast cancer and raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation The walk was presented in collaboration with SGA, WKU Panhellenic, WKU Interfraternity Council and the WKU National Pan-Hellenic Council.

“Knowing it exists is not enough” was Reed’s motto for this event

Bricks & Minifigs: Bowling Green’s latest ‘passion project’

Local married couple Tony Lopez and Jenny Lopez launched a Bowling Green franchise of Bricks & Minifigs, a nationwide company that specializes in LEGO and LEGO-adjacent products.

Bricks & Minifigs sells LEGO products straight from LEGO distribution and “retired” LEGO sets bought from customers or online

“The way that LEGO works is they’ll typically put something out and it’ll have a shelf life for about a year or two and then they’ll retire it,”

Tony Lopez said “LEGO is one of the few products that actually appreciates in value once it’s gone off the shelf ”

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