Thank you for participating in this year’s 2009 Breathe Easy Walk & Dine. We had 140 walkers and over 600 people come out for lunch and dinner at Cheli’s Chili Restaurant in Dearborn. Whether you walked the beautiful Rouge River Gateway Trail, came to Cheli’s Chili Restaurant for lunch or dinner, bid on a silent auction item or made a donation to one of the many participants, congratulate yourself because you helped to raise over $16,000.00 in just four short weeks! The money that was raised will go to the University of Michigan Lung Cancer Research Program to help advance the treatment of lung cancer. You also helped to show those who are battling this disease, that there are people out there who care.
Thank you so very much.
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. In honor of Lung Cancer Awareness Month this web site will stay active and we will be accepting online and mail-in donations through the month of November. Simply click on the “General Donation” button above and make your donation today. (If you wish, you may also still support a specific team or walker by clicking on the "Sponsor Participant" button.) Please forward this link to your family and friends and ask them to make a donation too.
A Special thank you to former Detroit Red Wing Defenseman and future Hall of Famer Chris Chelios, and the entire staff at Cheli’s Chili Restaurant, in Dearborn for going smoke free for the day and donating 10% of every diner’s food bill to the Breathe Easy Walk & Dine. We would also like to thank them for opening the restaurant early to accommodate registration for our walkers, providing signed sports memorabilia to our silent auction, bringing in a DJ (thanks Kenny Ken), and hiring a face painter for all of the kids…and adults! Thank You!
Thank you to all of our sponsors!
A huge thank you to the entire 2009 Breathe Easy Walk & Dine committee! Without you this event would not have been possible.
Anyone interested in helping with the 2010 Breathe Easy Walk & Dine, please contact us by phone at: 734-620-5694 or by email at: algrand@umd.umich.edu.
