D’Feet Breast Cancer event set for Oct. 24

GALVESTON — The D’Feet Breast Cancer “Celebration of Life” Run-Walk returns Oct. 24 at Moody Gardens in Galveston.

The event for the entire family is a principal fundraiser for D’Feet Breast Cancer, a nonprofit organization that provides free screening mammograms and follow-up care to uninsured and underserved women in Galveston County.

Events are certified 5K and 10K runs, a 5K walk and a 1K kids run-walk. The runs will wind through Moody Gardens, surrounding neighborhoods and to the Galveston seawall.

The walk will wind through the adjacent Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

Registration is $25 before Sept. 15; $30 through Oct. 8; $35 at packet-pickup locations; and $37 on race day.

This year, all Galveston County groups registering before Oct. 8 will qualify for free delivery of their packets.

The ninth annual D’Feet Breast Cancer Run-Walk honors survivors and memorializing those who have lost their lives to breast cancer.

All survivors are invited to the Sara P. Rose Breast Cancer Survivor Hospitality Tent on race day.

Dr. Michele Blackwell, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will deliver the keynote remarks at the opening ceremonies.

Darlene James, a mezzo-soprano with the Houston Grand Opera, accompanied by Bonne Karger, a Galveston pianist, will provide the music for the opening.

All proceeds of the day’s events benefit D’Feet Breast Cancer. This year, D’Feet Breast Cancer, through its partnership with the Galveston County Health District, Mainland Medical Center Hospital, The Rose, Victory Breast Diagnostics and Imaging Center, University of Texas Medical Branch and The Jesse Tree, will provide more than 800 free mammogram screenings to Galveston County women.

Since 1998, more than 17,500 high school students have received professionally led breast and testicular health programs as part of the D’Feet Breast Cancer education programming.

In Galveston County, 18 sites have been provided a selection of breast cancer books available to survivors and their families.

All money raised stays in Galveston County and is used for projects of D’Feet Breast Cancer.

For information, visit the Web site at dfeetbreastcancer.com or call the hot line at 409-771-5574.