Roch, NY Rochester Heart Walk April 29, 2006

Sorry we missed you Jeff. We were just speed walkers and speed eaters today.

Hopefully we'll have some pics up soon! I watched the last half of channel 13 news tonight but I didn't see any coverage. I had a great time. My first of hopefully many costuming events.

 

From the Rochester D and C

These walkers have heart


Up to 6,000 turn out for one of the area's biggest fundraisers


Sheila Rayam
Staff writer


(April 30, 2006) ? They came in pairs and in large groups Saturday? many with signs taped to their T-shirts that stated the name of a friend or loved one ? to participate in the American Heart Association's 16th annual Heart Walk.

Organizers estimated that between 5,000 and 6,000 people joined in the walk that began at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial, making it one of the biggest such fundraisers of the year.

Last year, the walk generated $488,000. The fundraising goal for this year is $689,000. Officials didn't know Saturday how much had been raised.

With the Webster Thomas marching band leading the way, walkers did a three-mile trek that looped twice through the Corn Hill neighborhood near downtown.

Duane Monacelli and several of his Star Wars enthusiast friends stood out a bit from the crowd: Monacelli was one of two people dressed in a stormtrooper costume while two others were dressed as Jedi Knights.

"My wife's father had a heart transplant, so we're big believers in getting out" to walk, said Monacelli, of Hamlin. "We actually will do anything in our costumes for charity."

Monacelli and his wife, Lisa, have done the Heart Walk for several years.

"The first year, we actually did it with my father," said Lisa, whose father, Dennis Kelsey, underwent transplant surgery in January after suffering several heart attacks.

Aisha Norris had a sheet of paper taped to the back of her T-shirt that read "Grandmother Mary Dennis."

"She has a lot of trouble with her heart," said Norris, of Greece, about her grandmother. "She has seven stents in her heart and she just recently had a heart attack."

The Heart Walk was the third for Norris. Her 7-year-old son, Fidel was also present.

"I think it's important that we support it, we come out and we show that we are concerned," said Norris. "Because one day, it could be me, and I would hope my children would come out and walk and raise money and support me as well."

According to the American Heart Association, coronary disease is the single leading cause of death in the United States. This year, about 1.2 million Americans will have a heart attack, with an estimated 479,000 dying.

SRAYAM@DemocratandChronicle.com

 

I have pictures to add to the gallery

 

The album is started and my pictures are uploaded.
Recaf2000 I gave you access to the album so that you can put your photos up there too.

~Doc_Bev

 

My pictures are added

 

Nice Pics guys. Thank you for posting the D&C Article Emily, hopefully the Insider will do a nice story on us. .

Duane

P.S. Once I get our team totals from the heat assoc. I'll post them.

 

Sweet Pics.
Horns!
A good way to start off a Saturday.
A healthy long walk and then a feast with the NFL draft.

 

If anyone has a hardcopy of the D&C article I'd love to get that for the scrapbook.

Also, folks keep an eye out for the insider that comes out tomorrow as I think we're supposed to be in that one. I had KS pick up some tonight, but we weren't in it. The one he found on the newstand was still the one dated April 28th.

~Doc_Bev

 

If anyone can score a extra copy of the insider, I'd like one since I don't get it out in the sticks.

 

I'll keep an eye out.

 

Pics are Up on the Rochester Insider site & I moved them over to Rochester Fandom, Nicky I have them in the misc folder, Do you want to move them over to the Heartwalk folder?
Tom_Scott_Mike

Dean_Duane

The_Girls

Actual picture in the Insider

 

Looking good! Thanks!

 

Thanks to T & DarSolo I have a huge stack of these now.

~Doc_Bev