The annual Stroll for Wellness Home 3K Stroll/5K Run will happen on Sunday, Could 1, bringing collectively most cancers survivors, households, mates, and volunteers collectively and in-person for the primary time in two years on the principal location in Hinsdale.
The theme of this 12 months’s stroll is “#WelcomeHome,” as Wellness Home is welcoming neighborhood members again for a full-scale occasion, whereas additionally transitioning to extra in-person packages for folks affected by most cancers.
This 12 months, Wellness Home calls on longtime supporters Molly Haunty and Gina Pongetti Angeletti, each members of Wellness Home’s board of administrators, to steer the cost and encourage the neighborhood to help the Stroll for Wellness Home.
Pongetti Angeletti’s household utilized Wellness Home when her father was recognized with most cancers, and she or he just lately inspired her good friend and colleague Craig Kruse, to get entangled with Wellness Home after he was recognized with glioblastoma. Kruse and his household now repeatedly attend programming at Wellness Home, and he has additionally joined the stroll committee to energise others to affix the annual fundraiser.
“For most cancers sufferers, the stroll presents vitality, neighborhood and hope. Being current with hundreds of individuals providing their help, feeling the sense of neighborhood from each household and strangers, and the overwhelming presence of hope is unmatched,” Pongetti Angeletti stated. “The stroll helps to offer hundreds of packages, group conferences, particular person life-changing periods and is a automobile for prospering and residing a life to its fullest alongside a troublesome most cancers analysis.”
An inspirational program begins at 8 a.m. and the stroll at 8:30 a.m. with a timed run to observe.
The stroll will happen alongside a route on the streets round Hinsdale or contributors can select to “Stroll Your Manner” at a time and place that works greatest for them. Anybody fascinated with becoming a member of the stroll can register as a person or a staff at walk.wellnesshouse.org.
About Wellness Home
Over 31 years in the past, a gaggle of individuals got here collectively as a result of they noticed, firsthand, the impression of most cancers on their household and mates. Out of concern and dedication, Wellness Home was born to lighten most cancers’s burden by packages that put together and empower folks to completely dwell life with most cancers and past. For data, name (630) 323-5150, e mail data@wellnesshouse.org, or go to wellnesshouse.org. For Spanish audio system, name (630) 654-5529 or e mail informacion@wellnesshouse.org.
