If you’ve been reading the blog over the past week, you know that we have a strong showing again for this year’s Boston Marathon.
Here’s the complete list of nineteen Southborough residents – 11 men and 8 women – who will cross the starting line in Hopkinton Monday morning. (For those raising funds, I included links to their blog coverage and fundraising pages.)
Please join me in wishing them the best on their 26.2-mile trek.
- Christo A. Baltas, 47: raising funds for Tufts Medical Center (fundraising page)
- Michael E. Campbell, 49: raising funds for The Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center, providing emotional and physical support for individuals with disabilities and their families (fundraising page)
- Beth R. Delahunty, 44: raising funds for Framingham Adult ESL Plus (fundraising page)
- Varavani J. Dwarki, 59: raising funds for National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc., directed to the Genzyme/NORD NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) to help those who are undiagnosed pay for testing. (fundraising page)
- John R. Freeman, 47: raising funds for Special Olympics Massachusetts (fundraising page)
- Yun Gao, 54
- Brendon P. Giblin, 38: raising funds for One Mission, a childhood cancer foundation (fundraising page)
- Charles A. Hagedorn, 60
- Melanie Harmon, 41: raising funds for Team FACES, Finding a Cure for Epilepsy and Seizures at NYU Langone Medical Center (fundraising page)
- Penelope V. Hauck, 42: raising funds for the ALLY Foundation, to end sexual violence (fundraising page)
- Jim B Haugen, 55
- Glynis K. Healey, 22: raising funds for the American Medical Athletic Association,to promote physical activity for school-age children (fundraising page)
- Kirsten Karis, 23: raising funds for the Department of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (fundraising page)
- Jennifer Martin, 48
- Gregory M. Mertz, 38: raising funds for The Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center, providing support for families dealing with disabilities (fundraising page)
- Ivan Millan-Pulecio, 36
- Mike Moonan, 30
- Amy L O’Leary, 48
- Lauren Sischo, 27
And one more member of our community (who lives in Waltham but works at St. Mark’s School):
- Christopher D. Young, 31: raising funds for the Waltham Boys & Girls Club (fundraising page)
To you runners out there, if I missed a charity you are supporting and want to include a fundraising link, let us know in the comments.
Good Luck to all, and May God Bless you on this and any other challenge you may face, you make yourselves and your, (our), town proud…