| August 1999 UM teams up with local
businesses for HeartWalk
Missoulians and western Montanans can team up with UM and local businesses to help
fight Missoula County's No. 1 killer -- heart disease and stroke.
This year's American HeartWalk to benefit the American Heart Association is set for
Saturday, Sept. 18, at Southgate Mall. The public is invited to form teams, collect
donations and walk three times around the mall beginning at 8:30 a.m. Participants are
encouraged to gather friends, co-workers and relatives to join the walk.
Money raised from the walk will be used to support education, community service and
research, including the work of a UM faculty researcher and graduate student.
Businesses can show support by sponsoring route signs. A $125 donation buys a special
sign along the walking route acknowledging the contribution. Heart disease and stroke
survivors who participate in the walk will be issued red caps that will distinguish them
from other walkers. Organizers are looking for such survivors to lead the walk. If you or
a family member are heart disease or stroke survivors and would like to participate as
guests of honor, call Don Hjelmseth at (406) 728-3949 or UM Registrar Phil Bain at (406)
243-2412.
The Missoula walk is one of many held nationwide throughout the year. Missoula sponsors
are the International Heart Institute of Montana Foundation (a partnership between UM and
St. Patrick Hospital), Mountain West Bank, KMSO-The Mountain, FM Radio, UM, the
Missoulian, Southgate Mall and KECI-TV.
For more information or to register for the walk, call (406) 542-6222. To find out more
about the American Heart Association and its efforts at fighting heart disease and stroke,
visit the national Web site at http://www.amhrt.org/.
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