This is going to be a crazy weekend, filled with more causes–and more exercise–than a man approaching 60 cares to imagine, but that he is going to do anyway because it is the right thing to do.
Tonight I will be at Bridgewater State–my wife’s alma mater–for their Relay For Life as our first Walking with Jane franchise tries to hit the ground running. We will have the usual stuff with us: shirts, buttons, bottles, bracelets, bags and baked goods, but the students have some ideas of their own we hope will make a big splash. They have made blue zebra ribbon and a blue bead bracelet that is particularly striking–and that I am hoping we will be able to get them to make more of for the Greater Fall River Relay in June. And they have some uniquely college-appropriate items for a drawing.
If you are in the area tonight, the event starts at 6 p.m. at the Tinsley Center at 325 Plymouth Street in Bridgewater. I’ll be there likely until about midnight. Come by, say hi, and help the students get off to a good start. The event ends at 6 a.m. Saturday.
Sunday morning, I take on the MS Walk in Dartmouth with Sam and Josh and the other members of Team Deb Awesome August. The three-mile hike starts at Dartmouth High School at 10 a.m. Registration is at 9 a.m. MS is another of those truly nasty diseases I have seen way too many times in my life. Dartmouth is way behind their goal as I write this, so if you know anyone with MS, please join us Sunday morning.
That afternoon, I am off to Somerset’s Holiday Lanes to roll a few frames for the Stars of Hope Greater Fall River Relay for Life team. A former student who was the first to make Relay for Life a part of her senior project in one of my classes is part of that team and has been working like crazy to get the word out for this event, which runs from 2:30-4:30 p.m. If you like to bowl, this is a golden opportunity to enjoy yourself and help out a great cause.
Last night, I launched my Jimmy Fund Marathon Walk fundraising site. I will be walking with the Caring for Carcinoid team again this year. All the money raised by that team will go to fund research into NET/CS at Dana-Farber. If you want to walk but do not feel up to the 26.2 mile challenge, there are shorter options–including a ten, a five, and even a three-mile walk. My personal goal this year is $5000.
Of course, planning continues for the Greater Fall River Relay for Life and Walking with Jane’s efforts for that, as well as some things we are not quite ready to talk about in detail yet. I hope you can join us for at least one of the events this weekend–and several more over the course of this year–as we continue to work to make cancer in general–and NET in specific–history.
