HDSA-L.A. 5K AND RELAY DAY
Saturday, September 17, 2011
WALTER REED MIDDLE SCHOOL
4525 Irvine Avenue, North Hollywood CA 91602
7:30 a.m. Registration and 8:00 5K Walk/Run Start
Relay Games Opening Ceremony 9:00 A.M.
Relay Games start at 9:30!
Join us this year for the 5K Run/Walk and New Events!
Form a Team to Participate in Relays, 3 Legged Race, Balloon Toss and More!
Fun for the Entire Family...Awards Ceremony!
WIN A TRIP TO CABO WITH AIRFARE FOR 2 INCLUDED
WINNER ANNOUNCED AT EVENT...
CONTACT JULIE COPPIN AT jcoppin@walkforhd.org
Tickets only $10.00 each!
LOS ANGELES CHAPTER WINS 2011 "OUTSTANDING FUNDRAISING EVENT AWARD"
CONGRATULATIONS!
About the Huntington’s Disease Society of America
The Huntington’s Disease Society of America is the largest 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives of everyone affected by Huntington’s Disease. The Society works tirelessly to provide the family services, education, advocacy and research to provide help for today, hope for tomorrow to the more than 30,000 people diagnosed with HD and the 250,000 at-risk in the United States. The Society is comprised of 39 local chapters and affiliates across the country.
What is Huntington’s Disease?
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder that results in a loss of cognitive, behavioral and physical control, and for which, presently, there is no treatment or cure. HD slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and reason. Symptoms usually appear in an individual between 30 and 50 years of age and progress over a 10 to 25 year period. Eventually, a person with HD becomes totally dependent upon others for his or her care. More than 30,000 people in the United States are currently diagnosed with HD and 200,000 are at-risk.. Each of their siblings and children has a 50 percent risk of developing the disease. Although medications can relieve some symptoms in certain individuals, research has yet to find a means of conquering or even slowing the deadly progression of HD.
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder that results in a loss of cognitive, behavioral and physical control, and for which, presently, there is no treatment or cure. HD slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and reason. Symptoms usually appear in an individual between 30 and 50 years of age and progress over a 10 to 25 year period. Eventually, a person with HD becomes totally dependent upon others for his or her care. More than 30,000 people in the United States are currently diagnosed with HD and 200,000 are at-risk.. Each of their siblings and children has a 50 percent risk of developing the disease. Although medications can relieve some symptoms in certain individuals, research has yet to find a means of conquering or even slowing the deadly progression of HD.
How do proceeds benefit HDSA?
All proceeds support HDSA’s fight to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families.
All proceeds support HDSA’s fight to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families.
