Five-Year-Old Raises $1,200 For Upcoming Ovarian Cancer Fundraising Event

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 30, 2007

Media Contact: Lizzy Scully, lizzy@girlsed.org,
703-887-9755
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Five-Year-Old Raises $1,200 For Upcoming Ovarian Cancer Fundraising Event

(Boulder/Denver, CO)
May 30, 2007, Addi Srednick has already raised $1,200 for ovarian cancer, but is only one of a number of kids participating in this summer’s Climb4Life ovarian cancer fundraising event.
Five-year-old Addi Srednick, one of numerous children volunteering at and raising money for the HERA Foundation at this summer’s Front Range-based Climb4Life event, has already raised her goal of $1,200. She and other young rock climbers, such as Amanda Woods, are excited to give back to a worthy cause.
According to Addi, she’s really “happy” to be able to raise this much money because “my gramma GeeGee died [of cancer] and Deb Lavender [too]. I want to help out so people can get better.”
Sixteen-year-old Amanda will also be raising money for HERA, primarily through her involvement with the Evolve (climbing shoes) Team, which is encouraging its members make donations through the HERA website.

“I want to raise awareness mainly so that people can know that this is a disease affecting hundreds of people everywhere, and to see if I can get some people involved,” says Amanda, whose grandfather has cancer.

“Its hard to imagine that out of all the things people work to prevent from happening to them like safety harnesses in climbing, and seatbelts in cars, that out of everything that can happen to a person, people get cancer and can't do a thing about it,” Amanda adds.

For both Amanda and Addi, this event will give them a chance to make a difference, but they are also expecting to have a great time climbing.

“I'm extremely glad that HERA has decided to use the climbing community to represent their cause,” says Amanda, who is looking forward to getting in as much climbing as possible.

And, adds Addi, “Its a chance to climb and raise money for a good cause, too.”

HERA is still accepting registrations for participants for this summer’s Climb4Life event, to be held June 15-17. To register, please visit: www.climb4lifeco.kintera.org. To talk with the athletes involved, please contact Lizzy Scully, lizzy@girlsed.org or 703-887-9755, and she will put you in contact with Wirtz or Burhardt.
The HERA Foundation is a registered 501 (c) 3, whose mission is to stop the loss of mothers, daughters, wives, sisters and girlfriends from ovarian cancer by empowering women to take control of their health, empowering the medical community to find new directions in ovarian cancer research and empowering
communities to provide support. For more information, please visit www.herafoundation.org. To schedule an interview with HERA Foundation founder Sean Patrick please call 970.948.7360.

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