By Michele Taranto

The Jimmy Fund Walk: Your Way, has a goal: to have a registered walker from all 50 states in its Oct. 3rd fundraiser. Norwood residents are assisting to well represent the town with 19 walkers participating: 

Sue Bartlett, Jennifer Cronin, Michael Dooley, Jennifer Fiske, Carol Flaherty, Kerry Flaherty, Marie Jasset, Douglas Jasset, Nancy Kearney, Esther Morales, Albino Morales, Kathryn Mulligan, Karen Rossman, Jake Ryan, Barbara Susi, Christine Visco, Sharon Weidenaar,, Jeff Weidenaar, and Rachel Wood

To help continue COVID precautions and keep walkers and the community safe, the walk will not follow the Boston Marathon course this year. Instead, participants will endure a virtual walk and are free to choose their own walk locations. This could mean, walking their city, town, neighborhood, park, trails, or even a treadmill!

The yearly event, now in its 30+ year, has raised more than $150 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with critical funds for all forms of adult and pediatric  cancer care and research.

The event also includes ‘Walk Heroes,’ which matches Jimmy Fund Walk teams and gives walkers the opportunity to connect with patients. Seventeen year-old Norwood resident, Natalia Donnelly, who was diagnosed with choroid plexus carcinoma, was matched with Team Invictus.

This year’s event will have a lower fundraising requirement, $100 for adults and $25 for those under 18, with a $5 registration fee. All registered walkers will receive a bib and medal and the first 5,000 to register will receive a commemorative Jimmy Fund Walk T-shirt. 

For more information, sign up to walk, or donate, visit www.jimmyfundwalk.org.