Grab your
walking shoes, put your best foot forward, and
help us
stomp out kidney disease!
Just head to the scenic Fondren
Neighborhood in
Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday, October 2,
at 9:00 a.m., to join the
Mississippi Kidney Wellness Walk, sponsored by
the Mississippi Kidney
Foundation. Now in its seventh year, this
annual event is a non-competitive
walk focusing on the education and prevention of
kidney disease, as well as
organ donor awareness.
The walk will begin at the MS Kidney office, located at
3000 Old
Canton Road. It will wind through the Fondren
Neighborhood and conclude
at Fondren Presbyterian Church, located
at 3220 Old Canton Road. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. Great Harvest Bread
will be on hand
serving fresh baked bread. St. Dominic’s
Care-A-Van will also be on-site
offering free blood pressure screenings. For any “weary walkers”, the Fondren
Express Trolley will be providing a free
ride.
When walkers return to Fondren Church, there will be
cookies from Tiller Cookie
Company and ice cream provided by
Schwan’s. Odyssey HealthCare will
provide fruit.
To add a little extra excitement, each walker or team
raising $100 or more, will
receive the opportunity to participate in the
“Helicopter Golf Ball Drop” with a grand
prize of $1,000 cash. Around 10:15 a.m.,
WLBT’s Skycopter 3 will appear in the
sky; it
will then hover in the air and release the golf
balls. The owner of the ball that lands in
the hole or closest to the hole will receive
$1,000.
Dialysis Units from across the state participate by
raising money to be used for
patient emergencies at each individual unit.
Adult walkers
are encouraged to raise or
donate $50; they will receive a t-shirt, tote
bag and 2011 Kidney Connection Calendar.
For more information, call Gail Sweat, executive
director of the Mississippi Kidney
Foundation, at (601) 981-3611.
$300 Patron
Level - includes admission for two and two
chances to win $10,000
$150 Ticket - includes admission for two and one chance at winning
the $10,000 Silent Auction and Art Extravaganza - Cocktail Buffet Music by "Meet the Press"
Wilson Stribling
and Kent Wilkinson - Masters of Ceremony
Ashley & Gabe Baldwin - Chairman
