LOGAN – As part of the world’s largest fundraiser to fight Alzheimer’s, the Cache Valley Walk to End Alzheimer’s is Saturday, Sept. 16 at Logan’s Merlin Olsen Park.
Events begin at 10 a.m.
Wendy Farr of the Alzheimer’s Association said the event is less about the walking and more about the celebration and honoring of loved ones who are going through this disease.
“There are people who understand the journey that they may be going through, and that’s part of what it is,” Farr explained. “We will have a ceremony that honors all of the different aspects of what level people may be involved in.”
She said the Promise Garden Ceremony at 10:30 allows participants to raise a flower that represents their promise to care and fight for those living with Alzheimer’s.
“Yellow represents a caregiver, blue represents someone who has the diagnosis, orange is someone in the community who may care about this but may not be personally impacted right now and the purple flower represents someone who has lost a loved one to the disease,” she said.
Farr said to register go to alz.org/walk, and there is no fee required to do that.
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