Sat Sep 14, 11:00 AM - Sat Sep 14, 2:00 PM
Preble Street Extension, Portland, ME 04101

Community: Downtown Portland

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September is Maine Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. The whole family is invited for a leisurely walk or to enter the timed 5K run. Benefits our local efforts to support detection, education, fund research and create awareness about brain aneurysms in Maine

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Lace up your walking and running shoes and join us for the KAT-Walk & Karo-5K for Maine Brain Aneurysm Awareness. This 11th annual event will benefit our local efforts to support early detection, education, fund research and create awareness about brain aneurysms in Maine and northern New England.

A brain aneurysm is a weak bulge on the wall of an artery in the brain and can catastrophically rupture. Up to 1 in 20 people in the U.S. will develop a brain aneurysm during their lifetime and each year about 40,000 people will suffer a ruptured brain aneurysm. Almost half of the victims will die and of those surviving, only a third will recover without disabilities.

This year’s event will be held on Saturday, September 14th 2019, along the Back Cove Boulevard in Portland, Maine. The event starts at 11:30 am. on the pathway across from the Hannaford Plaza and the walk & run will take place at noon. The whole family is invited for a leisurely walk or to enter the timed 5K run. This will be a special day to remember and honor loved ones lost to or having survived a brain aneurysm.

The KAT-Walk originated in memory of Kimberly A.Tudor, a Portland native, Deering HS and UNE graduate and athlete, who lost her life to a sudden brain aneurysm in December 2008. The Karo-5K is in memory of Karolina A. Kurka, a Scarborough HS and UNH graduate who passed away from an undetected brain aneurysm in July 2011.

September is Maine Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month. Join us as we “share our tears, remember with love, walk & run to honor” those families affected by this silent killer and help save lives!

More information about the event can be found at: www.MaineBA.org and find us on Facebook at: KatwalkKaro5K.

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