{"id":3639,"date":"2010-05-02T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2010-05-02T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:10:46","slug":"2010-parkinsons-unity-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"2010 Parkinson’s Unity Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Saturday marked the 16th annual Parkinson’s Unity Walk<\/a> held in NYC’s Central Park.\u00a0 Organized by Kingston, NJ’s The Parkinson Alliance<\/a>, it is the largest single-day grassroots awareness and fund raising event for the Parkinson\u2019s disease community.\u00a0 It’s been my pleasure to be involved with the Walk since early 2001.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0 program began at the Bandshell.This year’s speakers included Carol Walton, (Executive Director of PUW), Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (representing NY 14th district), Martin Tuckman (CEO), May May Ali (daughter of famed boxer), and Davis Phinney (a former professional road bicycle racer and Olympic medalist who founded the David Phinney Foundation), and speakers from Solvay Pharmaceuticals, the premier Sponsor.\u00a0 The event was MC’d once again by the beautiful Michelle Charlesworth (she looks like a beauty queen), TV news reporter and anchorwoman at ABC’s Eyewitness News.\u00a0 While the program was uplifting, it was also sad in that this past year the Walk’s founder, Margot Zobel, passed away.<\/p>\n

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Me with Michelle<\/p><\/div>\n

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Carol Walton<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Honorable Carolyn Maloney, Martin Tuchman, and Davis Phinney<\/p><\/div>\n

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Davis leading the crowd<\/p><\/div>\n

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My sister took this picture showing me at work backstage as the speakers gather. <\/p><\/div>\n

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The “Find a Cure Blvd” was filled with a variety of booths with representatives from sponsors, seven major Parkinson’s organizations, a kid’s area, area for team pictures (taken by my business partner, Derry), refreshment, and more.\u00a0 Many sponsors generously give away a variety of informative literature and goodies such as bags, t-shirts, pens, treats, and one sponsor even gave away yoga mats!<\/p>\n

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After the program concluded, the gentle 2-mile circular Walk began.\u00a0 The weather was absolutely perfect, and there were thousands of walkers.<\/p>\n

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My sister, one of the volunteer photographers, took the picture of me below.<\/p>\n

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My 8th year as official photographer of the Walk<\/p><\/div>\n

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The evening prior to the Walk, Derry and I also photographed the “kick-off” party held at the Boat House in Central Park.<\/p>\n

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A gorgeous venue<\/p><\/div>\n

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What a great way to kick off the Walk!<\/p><\/div>\n

The event is incredibly inspiring.\u00a0 Important is that 100% of all of the donations raised by walkers and contributors continues to be designated for Parkinson’s research.\u00a0 For more information, visit the Parkinson’s Unity Walk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday marked the 16th annual Parkinson’s Unity Walk held in NYC’s Central Park.\u00a0 Organized by Kingston, NJ’s The Parkinson Alliance, it is the largest single-day grassroots awareness and fund raising event for the Parkinson\u2019s disease community.\u00a0 It’s been my pleasure to be involved with the Walk since early 2001. The\u00a0 program began at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-puw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}