Wed. June 12th
Chris’ Video
Thank you for the nice comments about Chris’ video that was posted earlier this week. Aside from the 2-3 whack job emails/postings we got (believe me, we always get them!), the feedback was very inspiring and appreciated.
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B+ 5k – ONE WEEK Away
There’s still time to register. Create a team or sign up as an individual…either way, but do it today. And, please remember to forward the solicitation email (available on the run site) to at least 10 people. We can only do what you allow us to do. There’s so much more exciting research to fund and many, many families to help. It’s up to you.
Don’t forget to come hungry because we will have FREE Seasons Pizza, Johnnie’s Hot Dogs, Chick-fil-A sandwiches, Marini Produce, soft pretzels from Tile Market and SO much more.
One more thing not to forget — bring your coin jar, bag, change jug…whatever you have. We all have them. Bring them to the 5k as TD Bank will be there with their Penny Arcade and the money deposited through the machine will add to our total raised for the night. Thanks.
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Las Vegas Rock N Roll Marathon & Half Marathon
We are excited to announce the location of our next Marathon/Half Marathon for the B+ Running Team — the Las Vegas Rock N Roll Marathon/Half Marathon! How cool would it be to run the half marathon down the famed Las Vegas Strip under the lights!!! The Las Vegas Marathon is Nov. 17th, so there’s plenty of time to train and raise money. You want to get pumped up by some of the pictures from this run, check out their site.
What’s involved?
In addition to offering you a personal running coach, The B+ Foundation covers the cost of transportation, hotel, race registration, pre-race meal, running shirt, and more. What you have to do is be willing to run for the kids and commit to a minimum fundraising amount since this is, after all, a fund raiser for childhood cancer. Our teams that ran the Hamptons Marathon and the Delaware Marathon had a great experience and we’d be glad to put you in touch with them if you want to use them as a reference. We welcome first-time runners all the way up to seasoned marathoners. This is not about the time that you post…it’s about the sense of accomplishment, both personally and knowing that you’ll helping kids get a chance to live and, hopefully, one day be able to run one themselves.
Please contact Carly Bergstein at Carly@BePositive.org to get on the team or for more information/questions.
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SHOCKING Article – Chronic Health Conditions Affecting Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
My friend, Bob Piniewski (founder of People Against Childhood Cancer ), is an amazing resource for information about childhood cancer. Please take a few minutes to read the article that Bob posted on PAC2’s Facebook page. Thanks, Bob, for being such a strong leader in our battle against childhood cancers!
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Bone Marrow Drive
We’ve got a local family who is spearheading a bone marrow drive this weekend. Please come out to the VA Hospital of Delaware, 1601 Kirkwood Highway in Wilmington this Sat. June 15th from 10-2pm. You’ve heard me say many times about the tremendous need to build up the bone marrow registry. And, it only takes a cheek swab and a few minutes to get on the registry. Your willingness to insert this activity in your busy schedule this weekend could literally save a life…here in DE or anywhere around the world. Let’s do our part and hope that in some other corner of the globe someone else is doing a drive that will yield a match for our kids here in our own community. Karma! To learn more, please visit this site about the drive.
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Live Like Andrew
Ali & Andrew’s Dad