The huge display helps break the ice on a subject some are reluctant to consider, said Janet Hudson with Prevent Cancer, who added that the disease can be 90 percent preventable, with the help of screenings. "That's what it's all about, getting people talking to one another," she said.
Also amid the displays, musical performances and food, several vendors and participants paid tribute to Michael Jackson: Songs such as "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and other hits occasionally boomed from loudspeakers, and an enterprising few arrived with items commemorating the late singer.
On Saturday, vendor Abdul Hakeen brought 400 shirts of various colors bearing pictures of the "King of Pop." Hakeen left with just two, he said. He arrived with several dozen more yesterday.
