ARLINGTON — Although Breast Cancer Awareness Month was three months ago, it’s still yielding benefits for the Cascade Valley Hospital Foundation.

For the third year in a row, the foundation received a portion of the advertising proceeds from The Marysville Globe and The Arlington Times’ breast cancer awareness special sections in October.

The $948 check that publisher Paul Brown presented to Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert on Jan. 6 makes for a total of more than $3,500 that the foundation has received in three years from the Globe and Times.

Hospital representative Heather Logan reported that these funds allowed the foundation to offer mammograms at last year’s Arlington Relay For Life. Of the 35 women who had mammograms, 11 had no insurance, and three had clinically significant findings.

“Based on the success of that event, we also performed mammograms at our Women’s Health Expo and had another clinically significant finding,” Logan said.

Logan has noted that, while many people are already aware of breast cancer, getting them to come in for screenings that provide early detection remains a challenge.

“During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, we’ve offered everything from bonbons to massages on Wednesday nights to make it more appealing,” Logan said. “Nobody wants to get a mammogram, but it doesn’t have to be a scary thing.”

This year marks the first time that the Globe and Times partnered with the Daily Herald on their breast cancer awareness issue, and that they split the proceeds of that issue between the foundation and the Everett-based Citrine Health.