Saturday, August 10 – Lake Harriet Bandshell (Minneapolis, MN)

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Join the MN lung cancer community at the 18th annual Lung Run/Walk on Saturday, August 10 to raise your voice for change!

This event offers a 5K walk or chip-timed 5K and 10K runs with prizes for best times, KIDS FUN RUN with medals for kids 5-12, LIVE music, doctor/patient team stories and a lung cancer research update, a lung cancer survivor resource tent, and to end this beautiful day, we will gather lakeside to remember and honor our loved ones lost to lung cancer at the Rose Raft of Remembrance Ceremony.  

SPONSOR BENEFIT CHART

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Platinum Sponsors ($10,000)

Gold Sponsors ($5,000)

Silver Sponsors ($2,500)

Friends Sponsors ($500)

Burnsville Breakfast Rotary Club

Event Itinerary

7:30 a.m. – Event village opens (registration, sponsor, food, and patient resource tents)

8 a.m. – 5K & 10K runs start on road

8 – 9:30 a.m. – Live Music – Jason Paulson Band

8:20 a.m. – Warm-ups in stage area

8:30 a.m. – 5K Walk starts on path closest to lake

9 a.m. – Runner prizes

9:30 a.m. – Kids Fun Run on grassy area behind Kids Tent

9:35 a.m. – Survivor photo in front of stage

9:40 a.m. – Stage speakers and program – research updates, patient/physician talks, and team fundraising prizes!!

Dr. Manish Patel with Christi Connelly – biomarker testing

Dr. Paul Thurmes with Mary Lou Whaley  – clinical trials and trust

Dr. Tassos Dimou with Tami Little – science and new discoveries

Dr. Kostas Leventakos and Diane Marie Bollig – clinical trials

10:30 a.m. – Rose Raft of Remembrance Ceremony by the lake (behind the stage)

Meet our Special Guest Emcees

Tom Hauser, KSTP Eyewitness News

Tom started at 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS in September 1992 He hosts the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS “At Issue” public affairs program on Sunday mornings. Tom has earned a number of awards for news reporting, including Emmy awards for his coverage of the plane crash of Senator Paul Wellstone and for stories that helped solve the 1970 murder of St. Paul Police Officer Jim Sackett. Tom was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Edina, graduating from Edina West High School. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and four children. Tom enjoys building his backyard hockey rink, reading, golfing and running. He’s completed 29 marathons.

Susie Jones, WCCO Radio and Lung Cancer Survivor

Bobby Jensen, co-host Grow with Kare (Kare 11 TV)

Bobby Jensen has been a co-host on Kare 11 TV’s gardening special “Grow with Kare” since 1993. This weekly gardening segment has been a staple of Kare 11’s programming for over 25 years. Bobby opened his first garden center in Clifton, New Jersey in  1976 at the height of the “green revolution.” He later opened a chain of garden centers and became well-known for speaking on gardening topics in the New York City area. In 1990, Bobby moved to the Twin Cities area where he continued to learn and teach about gardening, including the topics of sustainability and new technologies.

PRIZES!

Runner Prizes: Top male and female runner in each age category!

Top fundraising captains and team! (Winners are determined by the amount of money raised by noon on Friday 8/9)

• 1^st and 2^nd place team prizes for most $ donated to team
• 1^st and 2^nd place captain prizes for highest # of individual donors who give $10 or more to their team
• Prizes ($50 Restaurant Gift Card) to all team captains who drive in $2000 or more in donations on their team page

Ticket Prices: $15 for children 12 and under; $40 for walkers over 13; $50 for runners – 5K or 10K. Proceeds support our research and patient services programs!

Registration Note: When you register, you can add additional team members. Once you complete this transaction, to register other people, you will need to start over with a new email address.

*Early shirt pick-up: Friday, Aug. 9 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm at TC Running in Eden Prairie: 6405 City W Pkwy B5, Eden Prairie