Categories: Day 10 | June 25th, 2008 | by Randy Pench | 8 comments
Team Will completes cross-country ride in Maryland
Its been a long, hard journey but worth all the work it took to make this trip a success.
Today’s ride was only 30 miles concluding at Sandy Point State Park in Maryland. Ken Kiefer lead the group of 15 cyclists into the park where family members and a few interested onlookers cheered them on as they arrived around 12:30pm.
Bike tires were dipped into the water followed by a group prayer and a celebration concluding with a swim in the refreshing ocean water.
Ken Kiefer leads all Team Will cyclists toward Sandy Point State Park, our final destination.
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Cyclists are cheered by friends and onlookers at the park.
Allan, Sammy and Don remove their shoes for the walk to the water.
Team Will cyclists dip their tires in the water.
Jon Holmes leads us in prayer.
Allan, left, and Jon acknowledge all the young heroes we rode for.
Allan leads the way.
Ken Scarberry enjoys the festivities.
Jon Depew couldn’t resist the refreshing water.
Amber, Phil, Lynda and Anne take pics of all the activity.
Ken Kiefer, left, and Ken Scarberry congratulate each other at the completion of the Ride to Reach the Day.
Categories: Day 9 | June 24th, 2008 | by Randy Pench | no comments
CureSearch hosts Eighth Annual ‘Reach the Day, Conquer Childhood Cancer’ event in Washington, D.C.
After a very long drive yesterday (Monday) from Dayton, Ohio to Washington D.C. the media team was greeted by members of CureSearch who were overjoyed with excitement at our cross-country adventure. Team’s One and Two - after completing their rides and a long drive to D.C. arrived in the early morning with barely enough time to get a quick nap and make it to the CureSearch event in our hotel where Ken Kiefer and Team Will members were honored by a jubilant crowd. After the morning activities, groups of parents with their children along with Team Will members set out on a short trip to the U.S. Capitol to meet their representatives to discuss the “Caroline Price Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act of 2008″ and many other issues regarding childhood cancer.
Greg answers questions during our CureSearch breakfast.
Ken Kiefer - who provided a brief history of Team Will - stands with members as they are honored at the CureSearch breakfast event.
Tanya Kiefer hugs her husband Ken after he spoke at the CureSearch breakfast.
Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow who works with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi listens to concerned parents and childhood cancer survivors inside the Capitol.
Cancer survivor Shawn Rhodewalt, 18, of Cameron Park signs Ken’s jersey after our meeting in Pelosi’s Capitol office.
Greg, Ken and Anne pause to let cancer survivors, Hannah Lewis, 7, left, and Eden Adams, 8, right, sign their jerseys on the steps of the Capitol. Hannah’s brother Duncan, 4, center, gets to sign the jerseys too. The family is from Columbus, Ohio.
John Pizzuti took this picture of me and Team Two members outside the Capitol.