FORKS — Walk Run Hope 2018 on Saturday will raise funds for cancer and multiple sclerosis research.
The inaugural event is to honor the parents of co-chairs Shelley Castellano and Charlotte Berry, both of whom have lost parents to those diseases.
“We hope to make it an annual event,” said Berry, adding that it is staged in conjunction with the Clallam Bay Corrections Center where both she and Castellano work.
The run/walk will begin at 10 a.m. at the Mary Clark Road pit. The finish line will be the Olympic Discovery Trail/Cooper Ranch Road.
Entry fee the day of registration at the starting line is $25. Participants who did not buy advance tickets for $40 by the deadline of Aug. 17, and who pay the entry fee the day of the event, will not be given T-shirts and medals, Berry said.
Proceeds will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation and to Virginia Mason for cancer research.
“This is basically Shelley’s idea,” Berry said.
Castellano has lost both parents to the diseases, Berry said. Her mother, Myrna Pegram, died Dec. 22, 1995, of multiple sclerosis. Her father, David Pegram, died April 28, 2016, of colon cancer.
Berry’s father, Gary Bone, died April 28, 2016, of lung cancer.
Her mother, however, is a breast cancer survivor.
Kathy Bone had surgery for breast cancer in February 2017 and has been cancer-free ever since, her daughter said.
“So we have some good news,” Berry said.
