GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) - It may have been early but there was plenty of energy at the Alzheimer’s North Carolina Awareness Walk.
It may have been early but there was plenty of energy at the Alzheimer’s North Carolina Awareness Walk.
After some stretching and warming up, hundreds of people from several counties started walking, and walking, and walking.
The Bertie high school band and the ECU Dance Team led the crowd through the park while everyone from little kids to 99-year-olds joined in support of those fighting Alzheimer’s and their families.
“Having this particular support and available to them and that we can raise money for the families and really help out an bring more of an awareness to the community,” said ALZNC support group leader Rosalind Pugh.
But the day was also filled with mixed emotions as many people like Faye Bogle walked in honor of their friends and family who have died from the disease.
“My husband's grandfather passed from Alzheimer’s. He’d been fighting it for years and one day he'd be perfectly fine and then all of sudden he would talk like a child and wouldn't remember who we were."
Bogle says it's events like these that help keep the memory of her grandfather alive.
“It means a lot to me personally and I know everyone out here has been touched by it so I just appreciate everything they're doing."
At the end of the event dozens cast flowers into river in memory their loved ones who although they may have passed, the special moments they shared together will live on.
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