This past Sunday was the March of Dimes Walk America here in Michigan. Our family has supported this organization for many years. For the past five, our coffee roastery has provided the coffee service and breakfast for the walkers and Mike and I serve on the Walk steering committee.
This was the best year ever. First of all, it was gorgeous weather, some years we’ve been out there in the cold and rain and sometimes snow. That translated into almost 1000 walkers!!
It was especially fun this year because one of the high schools I work with manned one of the check points and had walkers. They had over 30 kids out at the park by 7am (for those of you that don’t have high school kids, that’s AMAZING!!), and when you figure the high school only has 175 students that’s almost 20% of the school enrollment (for a high school that’s INCREDIBLE. ) I was so proud of the kids.
What makes Walk America so special (rain, snow sleet or hail) is that our whole family, Mike (husband), Aaron (18 on Saturday) and twins Adam and Jacob (16 this summer) really look forward to this event every year. Nothing would keep the boys from it. It’s a crazy fun day and we all come home after 12+ hours exhausted and happy.
Why do we support the March of Dimes??
1. It’s a great organization that uses it’s funds well.
2. Our twins (and I) benefited from research funded by the March of Dimes, that prevented them from being born 10 weeks early. At 4 weeks early they were still over 6 lbs.
3. In 2000 I got to tour the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA as part of a training I attended. It was amazing and further cemented my commitment to this organization (Jonas Salk=polio vaccine =March of dimes to collect money for research to eradicate polio)
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