Breast Cancer Fundraising Walk in Mishawaka

MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- The annual Breast Cancer Fundraiser Walk took place at Central Park in Mishawaka. Registration started at 8 a.m. It began with an opening ceremony at 9 a.m. and the walk officially kicked off at 9:30 a.m.

Before the walk, breast cancer survivors spoke about their personal battles with cancer.

Jazzercise was the warm-up for the walkers to ready themselves for the 2.5-mile walk.

"Well, we're all gathered here, honoring the survivors, the thrivers and those that we've lost to breast cancer." said Anne Housemeyer, the event leadership team member for The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, "And we have a two-and-a-half-mile walk. And we started out with opening ceremonies. We had a survivor speaker, and they had Jazzercise to get everybody to ready to go out onto the walk. And then you see some of the people are coming back to the to the area."

Last year they had 83 survivors registered for the walk and about 900 other participant walkers were in attendance for the event. Approximately around the same amount of people came to this year's walk.

"Oh yeah. I mean, we've got people from everywhere coming out here. My team, I had people from Peoria, Illinois and Indianapolis and Culver and just anybody to come out and walk. It's just a great event for the organ for the community. Yeah." stated Housemeyer.