Fighting Diabetes, Proactively!

For all those who have been regular readers of diabetesmoz, you know I have not been posting about events for a while. I have been a little busy, but now I am back. And here is an event people of the greater cleveland area would like to attend and support. “Swim for Diabetes” will raise funds for the Diabetes Association of Greater Cleveland at Ehrnfelt Recreation Center pool, 18100 Royalton Road. The swim will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 5.

Verizon Wireless is the sponsor of the event.
Those who raise $60 or more will receive a commemorative T-shirt. Those who raise $100 and turn in pledges by May 18 will receive a ticket to the Cleveland Indians vs. Milwaukee Brewers game on June 17.
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And another walk to cure diabetes in Forida area.

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.