17th Annual "Walk for Awareness - Celebrate Life" raised $39,000 plus

About 200 members and supporters braved the weather to attend our walk this year which was held on Saturday May 8th at Macdonald Park. Our MC once again was Tony Orr from K-Rock and we thank him for all his help. Twenty-two people had their heads shaved in honour

of a family member or friend and raised 22,000 in pledges between them. Pickles the Clown, alias Vicky Gendron, provided face painting and balloons. Our speeches and greetings were conducted in the big tent because of the adverse weather conditions which made things a little difficult but the Hon MP Peter Milliken, MPP John Gerretsen and Mayor Harvey Rosen all came and thanked BCAK for our work and support to the community. We heard briefly from Anne Grundy and Annie Langley, both doing breast cancer research projects which were partly funded by BCAK, for their respective PhD and MSc degrees at Queens. Our fitness instructor Lynn Schidowka led everyone in a pre-walk warm up and then following the walk participants could enjoy delicious pizza cooked by Joannie Karschau and Dennis Pacheco from Garlic Fields in the mobile kitchen kindly donated for the day by David Craig of Mobile Kitchens Canada Inc.

Many thanks to the 100 plus volunteers, all our supporters, and the many individuals, businesses and sponsors for all their contributions to the success of this event.

Let's walk together and bring awareness to breast cancer and Breast Cancer Action Kingston.