Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

Nick Westerfer a 20 year old sophomore at Bloomsburg University and a 2006 graduate of Troy High School, organized a 5K Run/Walk. The event is is named after his grandmother, Edith Westerfer, who passed away in January 1996, and his grandfather, Louis Fresta, who died in January 2005, from diabetes. Westerfer wanted to do something in their honor and something to raise money for and send to the American Diabetes Association .
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Another Diabetes Awareness event.

Students at Ecole Mariale took steps Friday to bring awareness and raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

But their walk also had personal meaning as students pounded the pavement for one of their own - nine-year-old McKayla Pharand who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2006.

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Have you sponsored the Tour de Cure fundraising cycling event in Reston, VA to be held on June 8, 2008, and the Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes fundraising event to be held October 25, 2008 in Washington, D.C. yet?

RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of digital television, data, and voice services to residential, business and commercial/carrier customers, announced today that it has donated cable television time to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for the above two events. via

In yet another event that will surely raise Diabetes awareness, there is this Canadian Diabetic who will climb the Mount Everest to raise $100,000 for the juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

Sebastien Sasseville became the first Canadian with Type 1 (juvenile) diabetes to summit Mount Everest on May 25, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. local Nepal time. Sasseville, 28, set out on his journey back in March with the goal of raising $100,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and demonstrating that people with Type 1 diabetes can live without limitations.[Via]

And yes, people with Type I diabetics can certain live without limitation.

I will keep it a goal to also post about fund raising events, awareness campaigns and Diabetes Walks, this is with the hope that we might have some reader who is near enough to that event to be part of it.

Read about Mitchell Landis, sixth-grader at Zionsville West Middle School, and his father, Joe Landis of Zionsville.

Stars of the Music, NASCAR and fashion worlds are expected to join Saturday at Nashville’s Hotel Indigo to benefit diabetes which will host Rhinestone Cure, a nonprofit, charitable organization formed to raise awareness about diabetes.

And in canada,

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) biggest fundraising event takes place in cities across Canada throughout May and June. The new event name, TELUS Walk to Cure Diabetes,
underscores the commitment TELUS has made to its partnership with JDRF and to funding needed research to help the more than 200,000 Canadians affected by Type 1 diabetes