Ventura County AIDS Walk '97

Ventura County's 6th annual
WALK for LIFE

Celebrate and remember with hundreds of involved residents in the 6th annual Walk for Life, Ventura County's AIDS Walk '97!!

AIDS Care, Inc. along with the Ventura County AIDS Partnership, and Serra Project (Christopher Place) invite you to celebrate the day with us.

We start in Ventura, at the California Street Mall and Promenade. Take the California Street exit and turn left toward the ocean; the mall is directly before you. Parking is in the structure on the left.) The Walk is 10K or 6.2 miles. The Walk circles around the Fairgrounds and continues down Main Street. At California Street, we head back down to the Promenade for music, entertainment, and food.

The atmosphere is festive, fun!!

When? Saturday, October 18th, 1997 Registration begins at 8:30 am.
The Walk gets underway at 9:30 am.

Sponsors

Pledge Sheets

Teams

History


Sponsors underwrite the Walk for Life with a donation of $1000:

  • Apria Health Care
  • Chevron
  • Crown Dodge
  • Buenaventura Medical Clinic
  • Joseph Reardon funeral home
  • Merchants
  • Novastor Authentex
  • PacBell
  • Paddy McDermott's
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
  • SmithKline Beecham
  • St. John's Regional Medical Center
  • St. Paul's Episcopal Church
  • Strategic Television Media coverage provided by KEYT, the Reporter, KBBY and the Ventura County Star.

    Pledge Sheets
    Pledge sheets are available at participating Von's Grocery stores around the county.
    as well as Blockbuster Video stores. Many individual stores will also have forms.

    History of Ventura County's Walk for Life
    In 1992, a public health nurse named Martina Melero organized a group of volunteers to stage Ventura county's first AIDS Walk. Curaflex Corporation was the sole sponsor of the Walk that year. About 250 people from across the County gathered pledges and brought them to the State Beach for the 6.2 mile Walk to Surfer's Point and back. Bearing the theme "Ventura county Cares" this first walk raised nearly $40,000 for AIDS support services.
    In the years since its inception, the Walk for Life has grown to be one of the largest fundraising events in Ventura County, with extensive media coverage and broad public exposure. Presented annually in October, national AIDS Awareness Month, last year's walk grossed almost $90,000 from some seven hundred walkers. Ten corporate and media sponsors from throughout the County helped to make it the biggest Walk ever.

    Where does the money go?
    the money raised by the Walk for Life is used to buy food, transportation, housing, emergency drug assistance, counseling, prevention education and case management for people with HIV/AIDS and those at risk. AIDS Care's overhead is covered largely by grants from institutional sources. Therefore, your funds will be used to benefit people with AIDS directly, with a minimum going into paperclips and account ledgers. dollar for dollar, Walk for Life is an excellent investment in social services in Ventura county. In addition to providing funds for services of AIDS Care, a portion of the proceeds goes to Christopher Place, the only residential care facility for people with AIDS in Ventura county, and to the Ventura county AIDS Partnership. The Partnership, a local affiliate of the national AIDS Fund, raises money for HIV/AIDS services throughout Ventura county. Last year, the Partnership provided $150,000 for care and prevention services.

    For more information, call the AIDS Care, Inc. office at 805-643-0446.
    Last updated 8/17/97.