2012 Heart Walk Update
I have said it before and I will say it again: I know some pretty awesome people. The 2012 Puget Sound Heart and Stroke Walk went off without a hitch. The highlights (for me): NO Rain!, the dog tag LAP Team necklaces my generous and thoughtful Aunt Adri sent, freebies (including a soy sauce flavored chapstick that tastes way weirder than you think), no rain (did I mention no rain), congratulatory lunch at Skillet afterwards, and doing my Tata proud. And I would do it all over again in a heart beat.
Individually, I raised $725! Not bad, not bad.
As a team, the LAP Team pulled together $1670!
And the entire AHA event, raised, drumroll please...
$1,533,467 as of 3:25pm on Friday afternoon
That is a whole lot of fundraising and research and survivors. And every single penny you sent, well wish you gave, thought you offered, propelled us all to reaching the finish line and donating to such a good cause.
Costco, I might add, was the second highest raising company in the entire walk!
But there's more!
Donations are still being accepted! The Heart Walk would like to reach their goal of $1,600,000 and they cannot do it without us. Please consider donating if you feel like you missed your chance or if you know someone who would have liked to but did not. The deadline to receive donations towards my fundraising page is November 7th, 2012 (the day before my birthday! More importantly, it is National Healthy Eating Day! The fact that I was going to go to L&L Hawaiian BBQ that day is neither here nor there). Though, I should add, the AHA will always accept donations and never turn them away.
Consider donating if you can, but more importantly pat yourselves on the back for a job well done! You are all LIFESAVERS!
Individually, I raised $725! Not bad, not bad.
As a team, the LAP Team pulled together $1670!
And the entire AHA event, raised, drumroll please...
$1,533,467 as of 3:25pm on Friday afternoon
That is a whole lot of fundraising and research and survivors. And every single penny you sent, well wish you gave, thought you offered, propelled us all to reaching the finish line and donating to such a good cause.
Costco, I might add, was the second highest raising company in the entire walk!
But there's more!
Donations are still being accepted! The Heart Walk would like to reach their goal of $1,600,000 and they cannot do it without us. Please consider donating if you feel like you missed your chance or if you know someone who would have liked to but did not. The deadline to receive donations towards my fundraising page is November 7th, 2012 (the day before my birthday! More importantly, it is National Healthy Eating Day! The fact that I was going to go to L&L Hawaiian BBQ that day is neither here nor there). Though, I should add, the AHA will always accept donations and never turn them away.
Consider donating if you can, but more importantly pat yourselves on the back for a job well done! You are all LIFESAVERS!
*I have no pictures from the actual day of the event - because I am a silly pants - so let's all bug Papa van Ingen to email the pictures he took that day, he got some good ones. In the meantime, please admire this necklace I just purchased on Etsy. It says Semper Fidelis, Always Failthful (or Loyal) in Latin - the moto of the US Marines.
posted by Ally at 4:23 PM
4 Comments:
Your Tata should be very proud of you...
Sorry, I deleted my previous comment...I had a typo! *gasp*
Anyway, good job, Ally! That was a very awesome thing for you to do :-D
Thanks for the update! I'm so glad it was successful!!
Bravo Ally, I concur with Not Yo Dad, "Your Tata would be proud of you".
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