Steps to Make A Difference walk is Oct. 25

GREEN BAY — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s sixth annual Steps to Make A Difference Walk is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, starting at the University Union’s Cloud Commons.

Registration is at 9:30 a.m. in the Union.

The four-mile walk around the campus’s Cofrin Arboretum, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, is the University’s response to the national Make A Difference Day, held annually on the last Saturday of October. The Steps Walk encourages UW-Green Bay students, organizations, faculty and staff, along with community members, to “step up and help others” by enjoying a walk on campus through the arboretum trails.

The walk aids nonprofit organizations that serve thousands of people throughout the Green Bay community and provides an opportunity for UW-Green Bay students to learn how to organize, advertise and lead an event.

In its first five years, the event has raised more than $40,000. The walk has received national attention in “USA Weekend” as a semi-finalist for a national Make A Difference Award.

Organizers hope to collect $15,000 for the 2008 walk. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, Court Appointed Social Advocates of Brown County, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation-Northeast Wisconsin Chapter, Literacy Green Bay and N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation, Inc.

For more information contact Steps Walk 2008 chairpersons Bridget Koeshall or Allen Voelker at (920) 465-2519 or via e-mail at stpda@uwgb.edu. Pledge forms and individual and team registration forms can be downloaded at www.uwgb.edu/steps/.

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