Team Savanna’s Smiles to Host Stylin’ Survivors Fundraiser

At 6 p.m. tomorrow, March 28, fashion and fundraising will meet to support the local Pan Mass Challenge team, now in its eighth year.

Savanna James smiled through it all. She smiled as she was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, as a five-inch piece of her skull and the tumor beneath it were removed and as she underwent 48 weeks of radiation and then chemotherapy. She’s now 12 and has been cancer-free for half her life. Savanna’s smiles haven’t stopped, and neither has the Pan Mass Challenge team that found strength in a young girl’s facial expressions and continue to ride and fundraise in her name. At 6 p.m. tonight at the Knights of Columbus in Lexington, Team Savanna’s Smiles will host its Stylin’ Survivors Fundraiser. A benefit fashion show featuring 21 cancer survivors as models and a few local celebrities as special guests, Stylin’ Survivors will help Team Savanna’s …

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Soccer Stars Playing for the Goal of a Lifetime

An all-day soccer tournament among some of the area's premier programs, including Lexington, the sixth annual Kicks for Cancer is scheduled for this Saturday, Sept. 29, at Concord-Carlisle High School.

High school soccer teams are accustomed to scoring goals, but this Saturday, Sept. 29, 12 of the region’s premier programs, including Lexington High, will be focused on another kind of goal: Raising funds for cancer research.  The boys’ varsity teams from Acton-Boxborough, Belmont, Brookline, Concord-Carlisle, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Newton North, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Woburn will compete in the sixth annual Kicks for Cancer in an effort to raise more than $20,000 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.    The tournament will be held on the turf fields behind Concord-Carlisle High School at 500 Walden Street in Concord and will begin at 1 p.m. with games between Brookline and Newton North and Lexington and Belmont. The …

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Thirteen of Your Neighbors Will Walk the Marathon Route for the Jimmy Fund

The following announcement was provided on behalf of the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fun Walk.

  On Sept. 9, 13 residents from Lexington will walk up to 26.2 miles along the historic route of the Boston Marathon in the 24th annual Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai. They will be among the 9,000 walkers expected to participate with the collective goal of raising more than $7.5 million to support lifesaving adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk is the largest single-day participatory event benefiting the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber and has raised nearly $80 million since its inception in 1989 to conquer all forms of cancer. The Boston Athletic Association has supported the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk for the past 24 years. “Every …

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Lexington Residents Running for Cancer Research

Running in the Boston Marathon to raise money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The following press release was provided on behalf of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. On April 16, William Widnall and Matt Whitcomb of Lexington will be running in the 116th Boston Marathon to help conquer cancer as members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. These Lexington residents, along with Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, will run Massachusetts’ historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston with a goal to raise $4.8 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team members must meet one of the basic fundraising commitments: One-hundred-percent of the funds raised benefit the Claudia Adams Barr Program in …

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Five Things To Do This Weekend: March 16 to 18

A look at what's going on this weekend in and around Lexington.

It’s Thursday, and you’ve got no idea what you’ll do this weekend. Lexington Patch is coming to the rescue. We’ve got the best bets for your done-work-outta-here time. Check our picks for the activities you'll want to take part in this weekend in Lexington and beyond. 1. Family Matters - An Evening of One Act Plays Where/When: Hancock Church, 1912 Mass Ave; 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17 Why Go: Theatre with a Twist and the Lexington Players are proud to present "Family Matters: An Evening of One Act Plays." Written by local playwrights June B. Bowser-Barrett, Eddie Dean and George Smart. Directed by Katie Kuhl, Doug Bolduc, Jay Reitano, Mary Spinosa-Wilson and Sal Jones. Pricing: $16 for adults, $14 for students and …

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Lexington residents help Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Donate $35 million to Dana-Farber

Almost half a mill came from the dozens of Lexington residents who participated in the PMC.

The following is a press release provided by Teak Media Communications for the PMC. Sixty-eight Lexington residents raised $466,344 of the $35 million donated by the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. They were among 5,169 cyclists who rode up to 190 miles across Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and treatment. The 2011 fundraising total is $2 million, or 5.7 percent, more than the PMC gave in 2010 and brings its 32-year Jimmy Fund contribution to $338 million. The PMC is the most successful athletic fundraising event in the nation; it raises and contributes more money to charity than any other. In August, cyclists from eight countries and 37 states rode one of 11 routes…

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Lexington's Burger Prepared to Pedal in Pan-Mass

Todd Burger will participate in his fifth Pan-Mass Challenge this weekend, raising money for cancer research as he rides across the Commonwealth with thousands of others.

Lexington resident and four-time Pan-Mass Challenge veteran, Todd Burger, 58, will set out on Aug. 6 and 7 to ride alongside 5,000 cyclists to raise money for cancer care and research for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. Burger is taking on not only the 190-mile, two day route, but he is also throwing in 34 additional miles for good measure. Burger will cycle to and from his lodging throughout the weekend and from the ferry dock to Lexington after returning from Provincetown on Sunday. The dedicated cyclist for cancer research will log in 224 miles in two days, something that he says, he hasn’t accomplished since he was in his twenties.  In addition to his physical efforts, Burger has continually volunteered his time at…

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