For those of you that run, please check this out and share.
This is your once a year chance non-residents can legally run around Lake Waukomis.
How? By participating in Sophie's Run this Saturday May 10th. Here's the website for the Foundation where you can learn about Sophie and how the run benefits kids in the Park Hill School District. Below is what I cut and pasted from the site about the Foundation. Please share.
About the Sophie's Run Foundation
Sophie’s Run @ Lake Waukomis is a 501c3, organized to honor the life of Sophie Edwards, a citizen of Lake Waukomis and student of the Park Hill School District, who passed away April 29, 2010.
The fundraising we do benefits children in surrounding communities to assist them in obtaining technology that will help them in school & in life. Our goal is to provide children who have special needs with the means to communicate. Park Hill School District has documented the work being done in the classrooms with Assistive Technology Devices donated to the Assistive Tech LIbrary in the District.
We had searched for a communication device that Sophie could access all her life. It was a challenge given that her limbs were affected by tone from spasticity and her body was challenged by the energy metabolism disorder that was the basis of her health issues. Sophie communicated with us through her eyes and in 2008, we found an eye gaze computer that Sophie could operate. It took months to locate the sources to fund the $17,000 device, only to have it delivered 1 week to the day after Sophie's funeral. We contributed over $5000 worth of equipment in 2012 & 2013 to Park Hill School District's Assistive Technology Library and the therapists and educators continue to inform us that it was a gift that keeps on giving each day in the classrooms and beyond.
Our goal through the Sophie’s Run @ Lake Waukomis Foundation, is to never see a child have to wait to communicate. Communication doesn't stop when children leave their school, so we hope to assist families who would like a device to create seamless communication from home to school and back again. Families who wish to submit a grant application to help fund an assistive technology device, should request a grant application by writing [email protected].
Sincerely,
Jim & Theresa Edwards (Sophie's Parents) & The Board of Sophie's Run @ Lake Waukomis
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