Team Chestnuts 2007 Breast Cancer Walk

Local 1853 Women’s Committee and the Spring Hill Manufacturing Group (Women in Manufacturing) will be participating in the American Cancer Society “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer”. It is a non-competitive 5mile walk through downtown Nashville starting and ending at LP Field. The event will be Saturday October 20, 2007and has a rolling start from 8am to 10am. There is no registration fee but we need to register when we get down there. You can pick one up a form from us or at the race event. Our “Team Chestnuts” will meet for a Group Picture at 8:15 next to the registration Booth and start our walk right after. Anyone on our Team is invited to ride the bus with us at no charge. We will leave our LU Hall at 7am and return to the Hall when we have completed the walk, noon at the latest. We will be taking orders for the long sleeved walk tee shirts and they will have our Team name on the back. The Shirts are $15 and the order deadline is September 28. If you do not want to walk with us but want to show your support you can order one of our Team Walk shirts. We Had a Bake Sale and 50/50 Drawing at our last Union Meeting and raised $387 toward our donation. You can go to our Team Chestnuts page to join our team or to give donations at cancer.org then Making Strides. For more information call Sheila McDaniel 931-540-8081 or Kate Neary 931-486-5049. Our Women’s Committee lost two former members last year to their fight with Breast Cancer, Wanda O’Brien and Rosemary Hall. They will be missed walking next to us this year but we will carry them in our hearts.

Since 1993, 3.5 million walkers across the country have raised more than $230 million through Making Strides events to help fight breast cancer. Last year alone, the efforts of dedicated supporters like you raised more than $40 million nationwide to enable the American Cancer Society to continue fighting breast cancer every day.

The donations you collect enable the American Cancer Society to fund cutting-edge research, provide up-to-date cancer information and education, advocate for all people to have access to critical cancer screenings and follow-up care, and offer free programs to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.