The 7th Annual North Shore Walk for Parkinson’s Disease will be held on Saturday, October 19,
2013, to benefit The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
(MJFF).The walk aims to raise $20,000 or more to enable MJFF to continue
aggressively funding research to find better treatments and a cure for
Parkinson’s disease.
The 3-mile walk starts at the First Church
Congregational, 40 Monument Avenue in Swampscott. Registration is $25 and
starts at 10 am; walk begins at 10:30 am. Free T-shirts for the first 100
walkers.
The North Shore Walk for Parkinson’s Disease
was started by the Wistran family of Swampscott in honor of Dr. Daniel Wistran,
who has been battling Parkinson's disease since 1997.
All donations support The Michael J. Fox
Foundation, which is dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease
through an aggressively funded research agenda and to ensuring the development
of improved therapies for those living with Parkinson’s today.
Five million people worldwide are living with
Parkinson’s disease—a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder. In the
United States, 60,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year alone. There is no
known cure for Parkinson’s disease.
For more information, call 781.307.5804 or
email northshorewalk@gmail.com. Donations may be made online at
teamfox.org/goto/northshorewalk.
