Sweet Talk Shoppe to host breast cancer benefit for owner

Marie Flores has battled cancer before, but that didn’t make her recent breast cancer diagnosis any less shocking.

In July, Flores went in for a mammogram check-up, and it came back normal. A few weeks later, during a self-examination, she felt a lump.

“It blows my mind that it happened so fast,” she said. “It went from 0 to 100 in a month.”

In August, doctors diagnosed Flores with Stage 2 breast cancer. She continued to work at downtown Greeley’s Sweet Talk Shoppe, which she owns with her husband, Miguel, through the end of the month before stepping away last month as she started treatment.

To build support for Marie, the shop will host a breast cancer benefit from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct 18 at 909 9th Ave. There will be gift baskets, prizes, food vendors, street dancers and brea