Welcome

Our next Breast Cancer 5K CARE Walk will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The start/finish is at Oakwood High School's Stadium, and the route (with an optional one-mile turnaround) follows the interior residential streets in Oakwood's southeastern quadrant. We do not cross major thoroughfares or busy intersections, and the route is fairly flat. It is a great walk for people of all ages and abilities.

We typically have 700-800 walkers participate and we raise an average of $17,000 each year. If you are new to CARE Walk, we hope you will join in on the fun. We pamper our walkers with bagels, fruit, water, and hot beverages. Survivors receive a free gift as well as our pre-registrants. Dan Edwards emcees our morning festivities with great music and interviews. Walkers can stroll through our health fair before and after the walk. The health fair, called Health CARE, will cover a variety of topics not limited to breast cancer.

Around April, we start selling our beautiful pink ribbon cookies, donated by Laura's Cookies of Dorothy Lane Market, to promote our walk in the schools and community. Laura donates more than 3,000 each year, and the cookies are $1 each so that's a lot of dough for the cause! We will have some cookies to sell at CARE Walk, but they go fast so arrive early if you want one!

Another popular event at CARE Walk is our door prize drawing. All walkers are entered into a drawing for a wide range of door prizes donated from local businesses and organizations. The drawing takes place during the walk and winners are posted by the time walkers have returned to the stadium.

We also have a raffle for our largest prize donations: an oriental rug donated by Fazel Rug Gallery, artwork donated by Deck the Walls, and watches from Wm Rife Jewelers. The raffle drawing takes place at That Day in May, the following Saturday.

If you are interested in joining our CARE Walk team, volunteering, donating, or sponsoring our events in any way, please contact Leigh Ann Fulford.