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3rd Annual Collins Dixon Bend Your Knees 5K and 1 Mile Fun Walk

Bend Your Knees, Inc. will be teaming up with local runners for the 3rd Annual Collins Dixon Bend Your Knees Run. On Saturday, July 12th, 2014 we will be hosting a 5K “Warrior” Run and 1 Mile “Brave” Fun Run at First Baptist Church in Canton. We feel this will be great community event and a great way to raise awareness of childhood brain cancer along with raising money for charities that support families that are facing the battle and journey of a child with a cancerous brain tumor.

This year, Bend Your Knees is committed to “giving back”. Bend Your Knees was started in loving memory of Collins Dixon, who at 12 years old taught us many lessons. Collins never gave up on his faith and believed that he would be healed. Collins was a Warrior and demonstrated this in his daily life by going to school throughout chemo and radiation treatments. Collins lived his life with courage and hope. Collins wanted to give back to those that gave to him.  We will be giving a portion of the proceeds to The Brain Tumor Foundation for Children, a non-profit charity, that provides support to families of children with brain tumors. We also will be making donations to other charities in Collins memory. For more on Collins’ story go to www.BendYourKnees4Collins.net

Through the funds we have raised over the past 2 years we have been able to help several families not only locally in Cherokee County, but throughout the Southeast. We work with the Brain Tumor Foundation for Children through the Collins Dixon Memorial fund to be able to give to children outside of our local reach. By doing so we have been able to help the families of 14 children in the following states this past year: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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YOU are the reason we are able to give back to others! Join us again this year as we GIVE BACK!

- See more at: http://bendyourknees.org/bend-your-knees-5k-info/#sthash.ycU3rnTQ.dpuf

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