Light the Night 2015 raises $63,000
This year’s Light the Night Walk for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society was a rousing success.
The walk, on Sept. 12, started at South Park in Lawrence, and about 600 people participated, said Heather Harper with the Mid-America chapter of the LLS.
This year was the first year that a Friends and Family team that raised more than $10,000: Team Berk of Topeka.
“We had one other Friends and Family team make over $5,000 and one corporate team over $5,000,” Harper said. All told, the event raised about $63,000 to fund blood cancer research. Harper said overall the event stepped up the participation and fundraising from last year.
“More people, more revenue — this was a great year,” Harper said.
Anyone who wasn’t able to a participate or hasn’t donated yet can still do so; teams can still accept donations until December. Visit lightthenight.org and click on “Donate” to search for a team.
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