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[Archived] Alexandria Walk to Fight Breast Cancer to Benefit Early Detection and Education
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:
Thursday, June 12, 1997
Contact:
Theresa C. Lewallen, Health and Community Education Specialist, (703) 838-5030
Alexandria Walk to Fight Breast Cancer to Benefit Early Detection and Education
The third annual Walk to Fight Breast Cancer is scheduled to begin at 8:45 a.m., Saturday, October 25 at the Cameron Run Regional Park in Alexandria. The walk, open to everyone, will help raise funds for the Alexandria Breast Cancer Fund, which provides free mammograms for Alexandria women in financial need. Proceeds from the 1996 Walk have provided mammograms for over 200 women.
Special guest emcee, Miriam Hernandez of W*USA with City Manager Vola Lawson, Senator Patricia Ticer, and Mary Moran will lead hundreds of walkers on a 1.5K, 3.5K or 5K route beginning at Cameron Run Regional Park on Eisenhower Avenue. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with the walk beginning at 8:45 a.m., rain or shine. The route can accommodate all walkers, children in strollers and people using wheelchairs.
Registration fee is $10 for adults and $5 for children which includes a commemorative T-shirt. Walkers are asked to collect pledges for the Alexandria Breast Cancer Fund. Top pledge collectors can vie for prizes. To receive a registration form and pledge sheets, call the Alexandria Office on Women at 703/838-5030.
Initiated in 1995 by City Manager Vola Lawson’s Breast Cancer Awareness Committee, the Walk to Fight Breast Cancer is sponsored by the Office of the City Manager, the Alexandria Office on Women, the Alexandria Commission for Women, the Alexandria Commission on Aging, the Alexandria Health Department, the Alexandria Volunteer Bureau, the Alexandria Agency on Aging, and the Inova Alexandria Hospital Foundation.
For further information, call Theresa Lewallen, at the Alexandria Office on Women at 703/838-5030.
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