Bring the family, your friend group, your bowling team – whoever you’d like to walk with on a nice Spring day at the beach!

The Highmark Walk for a Healthy Community Erie will be held this year at Presque Isle State Park, Beach 11 on Saturday, June 3, 2022.

**MEET AT THE YMCA TENT in Beach 11 parking lot at 8:15 am or later for bagels and water, plus some pre-walk music and warm-up activities!**

To register for transportation from Eastside YMCA to Beach 11 and back, please click below on RIDE THE YMCA BUS FROM EASTSIDE Y TO BEACH 11 AND BACK.

• Registration is free! To register for our team, please click http://hcf.convio.net/site/TR/Erie/HighmarkWalk?pg=entry&fr_id=3971
• To qualify for the 2023 Highmark Walk T-shirt, you must meet the following requirements:
  • A registered walker AND have a minimum of $30 credited to your walker account by your respective walk date. All T-shirts will be given out on-site.
• Raffle chances will be awarded to each registered walker who raised $50 or more. All donations credited to the individual’s walker account by the walk organization before the walk event takes place will be taken into consideration. Walkers receive one raffle chance for every $50 raised. All prizes will be awarded on event day. Winners do not need to be present to win.

If you’d like to be included information on carpooling, bus transportation, and tailgating before the walk, please register for the program below. (This is separate from the registration for the actual walk, above.) Make sure your email is correct, and you can accept emails from YMCA of Greater Erie. 

Questions? Please contact Karen McLellan at 814-899-9622 or email (preferred) [email protected]; or Ellen Hill at [email protected]

 

Thanks for your support!

 

What do Laurel & Hardy, Lucille Ball, the cast of Monty Python, and King Charles III have in common? They’ve all publicly taken pies to the face and there’s pictures to prove it!

With your help, we’d like to put some Eastside YMCA staff in this esteemed category, all in the name of raising funds for our Highmark Walk team. We invite you to donate to one or more of our staff participants’ pages, Any staff members who receive $100 or more in donations will be Pied in the Face, in front of a crowd of onlookers, with video rolling. The staff member receiving the MOST funds will get a special pie – cherries, sprinkles…you get the idea.

If you happen to be incredibly generous and donate a straight $100 to a staff member, YOU get to be the one to Pie the staff member in the face!

The Great Pie-ing will take place at Eastside YMCA on a June date TBA.

Funds raised for the Highmark Walk team will go towards our Chronic Disease Prevention programs – last year, grants and donations to these programs helped over 140 of our neighbors right here in Erie receive help preventing Type 2 Diabetes, monitoring and controlling their hypertension, improving their balance, or quitting the use of nicotine products. So “improved community health” may not be the first thing you think of when you see a pie, but maybe it will be after this event!

**YOU MAY DONATE ON THE HIGHMARK WALK PAGE, OR YOU MAY DONATE HERE – TO DONATE HERE, PLEASE CHOOSE RATE PLAN AT END OF REGISTRATION**

Click below to donate to one or more of our teams:

Blood, Sweat, & Beers (Sean Beers, Exec Director)

Dianne’s Go-Getters (Dianne Dale, Fitness Instructor)

Ellen’s Tour de Friends (Ellen Hill, Chronic Disease Prevention Director)

Joe’s Joggers (Joe Smith, Building Supervisor)

Karyn’s Narwhalkers (Karyn Snedeker, Aquatics Director)

Kickin’ Asphalt (Cara Kaliszewski, Business Director)  

Toolman Tim’s Trekkers (Tim Kaliszewski, Senior Property Manager)

Trot For The Tots (Cori Edwards, Child Care Director) 

Questions? Contact Karen McLellan at [email protected] or 814-899-9622 ext 240

 

 

 

Don’t let the price of gas and the distance of the drive keep you from joining us – sign up to ride the Y party bus! Leave with us at 7:30 am, or if you’re driving yourself, meet us at Beach 11 around 8:15 am for a little pre-walk breakfast and fun. We’ll have water, bagels, music, and warm-up activities – BYO other drinks and other breakfast items. 

Bus leaves PROMPTLY at 7:30 am. You snooze you lose! Bus will stay at Beach 11 until all riders return after participating in mile or 5k (no later than 10:30, but sooner if all riders are present). Contact phone number is required so we are sure not to leave without you.

Questions? Please contact Karen McLellan at [email protected] or 814-899-9622 ext 240.

 

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