NYC to Jersey City will
aid Komen Foundation
Local woman prepares
for breast cancer walk
Three-day event from
NYC to Jersey City will
aid Komen Foundation
BY LINDA DeNICOLA
Staff Writer
CHRIS KELLY staff Lori Bader, of Freehold Township, talks with other participants while warming up for a 15-mile practice walk. In August, Bader will be participating in a three-day 60-mile walk to raise money for breast cancer research.
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Lori Bader is no stranger to walking for a cause. She has walked miles and miles for various charitable organizations and calls herself a "big time volunteer."
Next month Bader is going to walk 60 miles in the Susan G. Komen Walk for Breast Cancer.
"This is the first time that I’m walking for breast cancer. I’ve walked for the March of Dimes, muscular dystrophy and the City of Hope, but my mother is a breast cancer survivor and I’ve lost friends to breast cancer," she said.
Bader has lived in Freehold Township for 17 years with her husband, Hal, and their daughters, who are 18, 15 and 11 years old. She is actively trying to raise the $2,000 that every walker is required to gather. She works for Seaside Materials in Long Branch and on her lunch hour she goes out and solicits funds, she said.
"I’m training [for the event]. I walk along with other women from the organization, anywhere between 8 to 10 miles along the shore. We meet at the Avon pavilion and walk north to Asbury Park, then we turn around and walk south to Sea Girt and back, over the Belmar Bridge to Avon," she said.
From Aug. 6-8, Bader and all of the other participants in this year’s event will be walking 60 miles over three days, starting at Belmont race track in Elmont, N.Y., on the border of Queens and Nassau County. Walkers will make their way through all five boroughs of New York City and then to Liberty State Park in Jersey City.
Donations in Lori Bader’s name may be mailed to Breast Cancer Three Day, 7415 Paysphere Circle, Chicago Ill., 60674 with Lori Bader’s participant number, 1023561. Register at www.the3day.org or call 800-996-3DAY to walk in the Breast Cancer 3-Day.
Bader said she likes the Komen Foundation because 85 percent of all of the money that is raised goes to the organization to support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment programs. It is projected that the 2003-04 Breast Cancer 3-Day Series will generate more than $50 million (net) to fund breast cancer research and patient support programs.
Funds raised by all of the breast cancer three-day events will be combined, with the majority of the net proceeds supporting international breast cancer research. Remaining funds (up to 25 percent) will be provided to local communities to complement previous Komen-directed dollars in each area funding breast health education and breast cancer screening and treatment programs.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was founded on a promise made between two sisters, Susan Good-man Komen and Nancy Goodman Brinker.
Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978 at a time when little was known about the disease and it was rarely discussed in public. Before Susan died at the age of 36 she asked her sister to do everything possible to bring an end to breast cancer.
To honor her sister’s request, Nancy established the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in 1982.