Homewalk - Homeless Heroes Event - 11/17/12

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Homewalk - Homeless Heroes Event - 11/17/12

#1 Postby boardman » Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:56 pm

HOMEWALK is an annual event put out by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. It is a 5k walk/run designed to help spread awareness of the 51,000 homeless people in Los Angeles. The spokesperson for this year, as well as last, is Kobe Bryant. Community Services’ team, Homeless Heroes is walking for the nearly 10,000 that are Veterans. Our team last year had 250 walkers, and this year we are looking to have at least 500, and at least 100 of them will be Veterans. Community Services is once again waiving the $25 registration fee for union members, Veterans, and their families, to come walk with us for this very important cause.

The team captains for this year’s Homeless Heroes team are: JR Martinez, of Dancing with the Stars, and a Veteran of the U.S. Army, Mark Valley, most recently seen on Harry’s Law, and a Veteran of the U.S. Army, and Jon Huertas, starring in Castle, and a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force. It’s going to be a fantastic event!

Join the 500 strong Homeless Heroes Team today and walk at United Way of Greater Los Angeles's 2012 HomeWalk

For more information on the event itself, please go to http://www.unitedway.org/homewalk. To sign up for the event itself, please go to http://www.laborcommunityservicesla.org ... Heroes.php

If you know people who would like to sign up that aren’t union members or Veterans, but are still supportive of our efforts and want to join us, please have them sign up on the United Way website and they can join our team by clicking on “Homewalkers and Teams” under the “Our HomeWalkers” section. Please note, they will have to pay the $25 fee, $30 if they want to run (pedometer included).

We are also adding in an incentive this year! For every person/family that signs up, if they are able to recruit other walkers, we will give them a free ticket for this year’s Grand Raffle (flyer attached). Please be sure to let people know that if they do have extra walkers, who are union members or Veterans and their families, to sign up to have them register at http://www.laborcommunityservicesla.org and under the “Comments” section, be sure the registrar enters in the person’s name that referred them to sign up. Please note; to qualify for the free raffle ticket, the referred person must show on the day of the event.

Denise Johnson
United Way of Los Angeles
Community Services/Homeless Heroes
(213) 808-6564
djohnson@unitedwayla.org

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