Sara’s Beach Walk will be held September 20th through September 22nd on the Grand Strand beaches of Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach and Garden City in South Carolina. The three-day, 45 mile beach walk will raise money for SOS Health Care, Inc., SOS Children’s Village and Sara Goodwin Memorial Foundation. The 45 mile beach walk also includes a 5 mile walk and a one mile walk. Funds will also be used to train therapy dogs for austic children.
The Sara Goodwin Foundation honors Steven Goodwin’s late wife. Goodwin is the Chief Executive Officer of Hard Rock Park. The charity was announced on Tuesday, July 24th 2007.
“Sara and I loved walking along the beach. As for most of you, it was the one place where we could go to escape the hustle of our daily lives. It was a place where we found peace together. I can think of no better way to honor Sara’s memory than by walking the length of the Grand Strand,” Steven Goodman (quoted from Sara’s Beach Walk website)
Source: Sara’s Beach Walk
Twelve men had a unique fundraising idea to help raise money while walking in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day. They are all featured in a full-color calendar, most with their shirts off, active in their job or favorite activity. The calendar includes a firefighter and a plumber among the men. They are 24 to 73 years in age. The calendar was first available in May 2007 and is being sold year-round.
The Susan G. Komen 3 Day will be held in Michigan in Detroit on September 28th through September 30th.
They created a not-for-profit organization called 60 Mile Men and designed a website for their calendar that also features other products. Proceeds benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Walk. The 60 Mile Men name comes from the distance that all participants will walk in the Komen event. The men are walking in the event to honor wives, family members and friends who have breast cancer or have had breast cancer.
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Saturday, July 14th the American Cancer Society held a Relay for Life in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. The event was 18-hours of walking. There were 49 teams registered and 554 walkers registered for the event. Many of the walkers honored someone who battled cancer or walked in honor of someone who died from cancer.
At press time, the exact figure was unknown but the event has raised over $180,000 and it has the potential to reach its goal of $200,000.
The Relay for Life event raises funds to benefit the American Cancer Society
programs such as research, education and patient advocacy.
Teams for the event had as many as fifteen members, or even just a single member. Teams were required to raise a minimum of $100 to participate in the event. To participate in Relay for Life; one team member must be on the track walking during the 24 hour time period for the event.
Signs are given to teams in different colors depending on how much money they have raised. A bronze sign signifies a team that has raised $2,500 or more. A silver sign shows a team that has raised $5,000 or more. A gold sign means a team that has raised $10,000 or more. A platinum sign is for the team that raises $20,000 or more. A purple sign is for a team that raises $25,000 or more.
At Cape Ann this year the purple sign was given out for the first time, to Team
Freedom. Team Freedom reached their goal by holding different fundraisers. They sold bracelets, held a dance, a yard sale, a karaoke night and also a raffle. They raised more than $28,000.
Source: Gloucester Daily Times
Jim Armbruster left home (Aurora, Illinois) on May 6th and is walking across the country to reach the final destination of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. Armbruster is expected to reach California by late October. To date he has walked 600 miles, reaching Scandia, Kansas. He is walking to raise funds for Marklund, a not-for-profit organization that provides care for children and adults with developmental disabilities in Geneva, Illinois.
Armbruster has raised $24,000 for Marklund. His 23-year-old son Nathan is a resident of Marklund. Armbruster has been a long-time supporter, a board member and an active fund-raiser for the organization for a long time.
He walks 20 miles a day on a five day schedule. He has not missed a day of walking since he begun his walk across the country.
The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Washington, CD on Saturday, April 28th was attended by 3,100 walkers. They raised 7.4 million dollars for the charity. Over 79 percent of each dollar raised goes towards the cause according to the Avon Foundation.
Many of the walkers attended the walk to support a friend or a family member that had breast cancer. Some of the walkers are breast cancer survivors. Last year’s walk had approximately 100 men attend and this year’s event saw an increase to 250 - 300 men at the walk.
“I don’t want my daughter, my granddaughter or anybody else to go through it,” says Judy Cherry, 60, a breast cancer survivor who formed a team that raised more than $10,000 for this weekend’s walk. ” I can cure cancer, because I walk.”
Source: WTOP news.com
Jason Taylor can see Mount Rainer from his Bainbridge, WA home. He can see it also from his office, or even when he is out for his daily jog.
From Thursday, July 19th to Friday, July 20th, Taylor will climb Mount Rainer to raise funds for the American Lung Association. Monies raised will benefit the Climb for Clean Air program. The climb raises money to fight lunch cancer and to ensure clean air for everyone to breathe, and also raises money for awareness for lung cancer. Taylor has raised $11,000 for the American Lung Association. He raised those funds in just three months.
Taylor will be part of a group of 18, led by Lou Whitaker. Whitaker is a world-famous mountain climber and brings along with him several guides from Rainier Mountaineering, Inc.
The people from News Channel 8 held a softball game and walk-a-thon to raise money for cancer. The walk-a-thon assisted the charity efforts at the Ethel Peters Complex. They played three co-ed softball games at Lupone Field in Clinton, CT. Monies raised from last year’s event raised over $25,000.
