Adam Iker's Team In Training Page
Racing to Save Lives
Welcome to my Team In Training home page. Disney Marathon Weekend Photo and Report!
10/29/2007
Thanks to 2 successful fundraising events and the wonderful generosity of friends, friends of friends, and family I am getting very close to my goal! Back in September we had a great yard sale that raised close to $600. A special thanks should go out to our friends the Jordans and Macks for generously donating so much great stuff to sell. It wouldn't have been the success without you!
This past Saturday we had a chili cookoff/Halloween party at a family campsite on the Ohio River and despite cold temperatures and the occasional misty, sputtering rain we had a good turn out. Through sales of raffle tickets for baskets, entry fees for the chili cookoff, and a cornhole tournament we raised over $400! Another special thanks should go out to Carol and Anne for selling raffle tickets at their workplaces, and Carol, Anne, Libby (my mom), Heather, and everyone else that made the arrangements, the invitations, the baskets, and the food! You guys are the best!
A special congratulations to Heather for winning the Chili Cookoff and being crowned the first ever Poker Flats Chili Champion! She beat out 7 other contestants for the title.
I am training to participate in Walt Disney World Marathon in January as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I'm completing this event in memory of Dalmer Wells who recently lost his battle with cancer. Also in honor of my grandmother Blanche Iker and mother in law Janet Chaney who are cancer survivors, and all individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!
Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance the Society's mission.
I hope you'll visit my web site often. Be sure to check back frequently to see my progress. Thanks for your support!
I am doing this event in memory and in honor of people important in my life. I'd also like to give my donors the option to donate in someone's honor or memory. If you would like to donate in the name of a cancer survivor or in memory of someone please let me know. I will print the name of the person you are donating for on a ribbon to be worn on race day during the Disney World Marathon. Hopefully I will have lots of photos to share after the race!
I will also post all the names on this website with your permission.
Kim and John Klotz generously donated in memory of Dotty Radenheimer
Rick and Sue Schilling donated for Jim Grau from Mt. Morah Church.."In memory of his recent death from cancer"
Jeff and Kristy Atkinson made a very generous donation for a friend and family member. "This donation is in memory of my friend Jeff Atkins who passed away from Leukemia and in honor of Kristy's Grandma Helen, who is a breast cancer survivor and is currently battling cancer again."
Jennifer Renninger writes "When I was donating, I was thinking of my grandfather, Henry Kundzicz. He was a great man that died two years ago of cancer of the bladder that spread throughout his body...That is also one of the reason I have chosen to become a nurse. He was a very important man in my life and I am so grateful for having known him."
Martha donated "in memory of Sue Garner, my mother and your grandmother Betty Mussey."
Lynne gives for "My Mother(Mrs Inez Minton) is a breast cancer survivor for three years now,my son Hans( a childhood playmate of yours) had thyroid cancer recently and is a survivor,my Daddy(David Minton) has a basal cell cancer just diagnosed and will be removed soon. Cancer has touched my family in many ways."
Donna Dowdney writes: "please acknowledge a remembrance for a very dear friend of mine who died of leukemia a few years ago -- her name was Patricia Bogart."
Connie Bare writes: "Danny and I have made a donation in honor of my cousin, Kay Paff, who is a Lymphoma survivor and also a dear friend of mine who died of Leukemia, at age 13 many years ago, Patty Wolf."
