Fairfield Connecticut Stroll/Run for Hope

As Most cancersCare’s Fairfield Stroll/Run for Hope enters its eleventh yr, a brand new native custom is simply getting began. After the annual 5K race, which raises funds for Most cancersCare’s free companies, native restaurant Little Pub brings members collectively to have a good time with a free drink or child’s meal.

“Plainly everybody is aware of someone who’s been affected by most cancers,” says Doug Grabe, proprietor of Little Pub, explaining his choice to help the trigger. “And, as a result of Most cancersCare casts a fairly large web, I’m pretty sure just a few of our buyer’s households have used Most cancersCare’s companies.”

Little Pub has been serving the southern Connecticut neighborhood for 9 years, with places in Greenwich, Ridgefield, Wilton and Fairfield. “Little Pub is a gathering place for everybody and anybody,” says Doug. “It’s a spot the place households really feel snug bringing their youngsters, and it’s additionally a terrific place for after work drinks or dinner with pals.”

That welcoming spirit can be mirrored within the work they do outdoors the pub. “We prefer to become involved and help the communities we’re in as a lot as we probably can,” he says. “Our objective is to be a sort of neighborhood useful resource and produce out the very best in everybody.”

Doug first heard about Most cancersCare after opening Little Pub’s Fairfield location. Along with desirous to help a corporation that served the local people, Doug was impressed by Most cancersCare’s mission of offering quick, direct companies to folks with most cancers and their households. “Most cancersCare is a really efficient group and is basically attempting to maximise take care of the folks it serves,” he says.

That is the second yr that Little Pub will likely be internet hosting its after-race celebration. Little Pub signed on as an occasion sponsor for final yr’s occasion, and in addition put collectively a fundraising workforce.

“We began out as a small workforce of perhaps 10 folks, and raised greater than $3,000.” When the workforce participated in Most cancersCare’s Greenwich Stroll/Run for Hope in spring 2017, their workforce measurement doubled and so they raised near $7,000. “For Fairfield this yr, we’re planning on a good bigger contingent.”

Most cancersCare’s eleventh Fairfield Stroll/Run for Hope will happen Sunday, October 15 at Jennings Seaside. This family-friendly 5K occasion will elevate important funds for and consciousness about Most cancersCare’s free, skilled companies accessible to anybody dealing with a most cancers prognosis.