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GLT Datebook: Your Chance To Walk With A Champion

Family walks inside Hancock Stadium
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Easter Seals Central Illinois
A Walk With Champions is one of the biggest fundraisers of Easter Seals Central Illinois.

At an upcoming Easter Seals event, you not only get a chance to walk to raise money to help kids with disabilities, you get a chance to walk with a champion.

  • Easter Seals Walk With Me: A Walk With Champions is Saturday, July 22, at Hancock Stadium in Normal.
  • The champions of the event are the kids of Easter Seals, and the funds raised for the walk provide services to  children with disabilities, and help give them the opportunity to live, learn, work, and play in our community.
  • Each team that participates in the walk around the track at Hancock will be paired off with an Easter Seals family that will benefit from their efforts.
  • The goal for this event is $100,000.
  • After the walk, there's a variety of activities, including a bouncy house for the kids.
  • Registration is easy. Just stop by the Easter Seals Central Illinois Facebook page.

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