Snowshoe Walk to Benefit Hemophilia Foundation. Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. Raffle tickets are $20 The Sixth Annual Alpine Snowshoe Walk to beneach and may be purchased by sending a check made efit the New England Hemophilia Association takes out to The New England Hemophilia Association place on Saturday, March 13, at Stratton Mountain, to the association at 347 Washington St., Suite 402, Vermont. This year’s walk is generously sponsored by Dedham, MA 02026. All proceeds benefit the New Bayer Healthcare, CSL Behring, Baxter Healthcare, England Hemophilia Association. Biomed Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, and Coram About the walk and hemophilia: Specialty Infusion Services. The brainchild of Stratton Mountain residents Register online at www.newenglandhemophilia.org, Mark and Ina Katzman, the first Alpine Snowshoe or in person the day of the walk, at Stratton’s Sun Bowl Walk was organized and held the year after the Base Lodge, from 12:30 p.m. The guided walk kicks off Katzman’s first grandson, Blake, was born and diagat 1:30 p.m. Donations for the walk are $25 per adult nosed with hemophilia. While most everyone under17 and older (16 and under walk free with paying stands that hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disadult). Any gift of $50 or more earns the donor a seat order, most are surprised to learn that the disorder at Saturday evening’s celebratory dinner, hosted by the can spontaneously appear in children whose parents event’s founders, Mark and Ina Katzman. don’t have the disorder. This was the case with Blake. This year’s Silent Auction includes tickets to Jerry After a series of medical procedures and with the Seinfeld’s May show at the MGM Grand Theater at now daily intravenous doses of clotting factor, Blake Foxwoods plus an overnight stay at Foxwoods Resort Mark and Ina Katzman’s grandson, is doing well and is living the life of a normal, healthy Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut; an Indianapolis Blake Katzman seven year old. Almost. There is no cure for hemoColts helmet autographed by Super Bowl XLI MVP, philia but with funding and research – last year’s Peyton Manning; an NFL football signed by New York event drew 80 walkers and more than 100 diners, raising $26,000 for Giants great and Super Bowl XXI MVP, Phil Simms, as well as a basketresearch, education and medical seminars for those affected with bleedball signed by the Harlem Globetrotters. You may also bid on Red Sox ing disorders – there is hope for every child, parent, or grandparent of a tickets, golf for four at Stratton, dinners at area restaurants, fine jewelry child who faces the challenges of living with bleeding disorders. and much more. There will also be a very special raffle for a pair of tickets to Bon Jovi’s March 27 show and overnight accommodations for two at Mohegan
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