Stoneham Residents To Raise Money For Dana-Faber Institute Via Jimmy Fund Walk

STONEHAM, MA — Fifteen Stoneham residents will join thousands of other walkers raising money for cancer care and cancer research early next month in this year's Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk.

Kerri Cronin, Bruno Manhaes, Kara Bishop, James Rodrigues, Jenny Gilmore, Hayley Bryant, Donna DiPersio, Badrieh Edalatpour, James McIntyre, Harry Miller and five other Stoneham residents not identified in a press release from walk organizers are all among the registered walkers .

Boasting more than three-decades of events, the Jimmy Fund Walk has raised upwards $155 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

“Throughout the past 33 years, the Jimmy Fund Walk has continuously supported life-saving research and cancer care at Dana-Farber. And the pandemic didn’t stop us,” Jimmy Fund Walk Director Zack Blackburn recently said.

The walk has taken place virtually over the past two years. It is now returning with its first in-person running since 2019 on Oct. 2.

The walk lets participants choose from different distance options, including a 5K walk, a 10K walk, a half marathon walk and a full marathon walk.

Participants can also opt to utilize a “walking their way” option that allows them to complete their walk in their neighborhood, on a hiking trail or on a treadmill.

There will be a dozen refueling stations along the marathon walk course as well as poster-sized photographs of patients in half-mile increments as inspiration. Each of the in-person walk options ends at the Copley Square marathon finish line in Boston, where there will be a celebration with food, music, and a speaking program.

To register for the Jimmy Fund Walk or to support a walker, click here or call (866) 531-9255.