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Events: Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community '10

Walk for a Healthy Community

The Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community is the annual fundraising walk that benefits local health and human service agencies in central Pennsylvania. Highmark Blue Shield underwrites the cost of the walk so that 100 percent of the money raised by walkers goes to the participating organizations. Goodwill is one of 50+ non-profits that will participate in the 2010 Walk For a Healthy Community.
Visit www.walkforahealthycommunity.org to register to walk and raise funds to support Goodwill's mission!

RAISE FUNDS FOR LIFE CHANGING SERVICES

Goodwill Keystone Area Walkers

Saturday, May 22
City Island in Harrisburg
Registration - 7:45am
5K Walk - 9am
1 Mile Fun Way - 9:15am

Saturday, June 12
Historic downtown Bethlehem
(Main & Lehigh Streets)
Registration - 7:45am
5K Walk - 9am
1 Mile Fun Way - 9:15am

Can’t make either of these dates? No problem! You can be a virtual walker (walk from a remote location or just think about walking and all the great things that Goodwill is doing with the money raised from this event).

Register a team to walk and raise funds online!

  • Mark your calendar.
  • Get your friends and raise funds to help provide job training and coaching to people with disabilities. Work provides the opportunity to develop a full, independent life. Goodwill believes that everyone should have the opportunity for a full life.
  • Register for the walk by visiting www.walkforahealthycommunity.org.
  • Select the Harrisburg or Bethlehem Walk.
  • Don't forget to choose Goodwill Keystone Area as the organization you are supporting in the walk.
  • New this year: Raise funds ONLINE!

For every $50 raised, you will be entered in a drawing to win prizes valued at more than $1500.

How funds raised from the walk are helping:

How Funds Help

Valerie is a person who shows strength during times of adversity. For her, it started at a young age. She said, “When I was eight years old, doctors found a tumor in my knee. It was removed, but my leg never fully developed. I never let it stop me.”

Years later, misfortune appeared again. In October 1999, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Valerie had to undergo chemo treatments and a stem cell transplant. To make things even more ifficult, as Valerie was battling leukemia, she lost her sister to cancer.

To begin the healing process, Valerie wanted a normal life, which included work. “One thing that I wanted to do was go back to work, but I was weak and would get sick.” She decided to call Goodwill.

The Goodwill staff welcomed her and she began working 12 hours a week at Letterkenny Army Depot. “They were so good to me and helped me. No one gave up on me. I was promoted to a part-time crew leader, then a full-time crew leader. Now, I’m a supervisor and oversee several crew leaders and six buildings.”

For Valerie, her biggest achievement is “getting off” disability. “When I went off disability, it was like I finally put cancer behind me. I could let go of it. I beat it.”

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