Mar 16, 2009
"Spring Fling Week" is March 16-20
March 11, 2009—Wilmington, DELAWARE The Delaware Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society announced today that the week of March 16–20, 2009, has been designated as “Spring Fling Week” to gear up for the last Walk MS event of the spring season—Walk MS: Twilight at Baywood Greens 2009. As an incentive program, Spring Fling Week is designed to sign up walkers for the event. Anyone who signs up 10 or more event participants during the week of March 16–20 will be awarded gift cards to local retail outlets.
“Whatever local store you prefer to shop in,” says the chapter’s director of development, Holly Maddams, M.P.A., “you will be awarded—a $10 gift card if you sign up 10 people, $20 for 20 people, and so on. During Spring Fling Week, we hope to generate a lot of positive feedback for the Baywood Greens area as well as for the event.”
About Walk MS: Twilight at Baywood Greens 2009
Walk MS: Twilight at Baywood Greens 2009 is scheduled for Friday, May 29. Stepping off at the Baywood Greens Clubhouse in Long Neck at 6:00 P.M., the annual fundraiser has become a Walk MS favorite because of its accessible three-mile route through breathtakingly beautiful, prize-winning gardens plus the after-party, which includes refreshments, prizes, and entertainment.
As an annual fundraiser, the event supports the programs and services needed by more than 1,500 Delawareans with MS and their families. While the average walker raises $123.75, individuals and groups can also support fundraising by volunteering.
“Our events are the rallying point for the MS movement,” says the chapter’s event coordinator, Jennie Welch, “and we encourage everyone to participate by doing what they can do, whatever that is. Even if they can’t raise money, being there is an important step. They can volunteer, recruit, or participate. All these investments in time and energy will pay off both this year and in years to come.”
For more information, call (302) 655-5610, or visit www.delawarewalk.org.
About multiple sclerosis
Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS. MS affects more than 400,000 Americans. Most are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50—during life’s most productive years—and more than twice as many women are diagnosed as men.
Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body. Symptoms range from tingling and numbness in the limbs to blindness and paralysis. In other words, MS stops people from moving.
Although the progress, severity, and specific symptoms of MS cannot be predicted, advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS. Studies show that early and ongoing treatment with an FDA-approved therapy can reduce future disease activity and improve the quality of life for many people with MS.
About the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society is a collective of passionate individuals who are
• moving together to create a world free of MS.
• moving research forward by relentlessly pursuing prevention, treatment, and a cure.
• moving to reach out and respond to individuals, families, and communities living with MS.
• moving politicians and legislation to champion the needs of people with MS through activism, advocacy, and influence.
• moving to raise $1.25 billion by 2010 to help create a world free of MS.
• moving to mobilize the millions of people who want to do something about MS now.
To this end, the National MS Society funds more MS research, provides more services to people with MS, offers more professional education, and furthers more advocacy efforts than any other MS organization in the world. Through a 50-state network of chapters—including the Delaware Chapter—the Society addresses the challenges of living with the disease.
To learn about the current research as well as ways to help manage MS, call (302) 655-5610, or visit MSdelaware.org.