The 2015 Porter
County Heart Walk will be held this Saturday, September 26, from 9 to 11
a.m., at the Coffee Creek Center, Chesterton.
The Heart Walk
encourages community members to enjoy more physical activity while also
raising critical funds. Money raised from Heart Walk comes back to benefit
the Northwest Indiana region.
The Porter County
Heart Walk is one of two Heart Walks held annually in the region; the other
is the Lake County Heart Walk, which took place last weekend. More than
1,000 walkers will help raise over $500,000 and bring attention to the
importance of heart health.
The walk will
feature a non-competitive one-, two-, and three-mile walk, free
family-friendly health festival with entertainment, educational resources on
heart health and screenings. Guest speakers: 2015 Northwest Indiana
Executive Heart Walk Chairman, Dale Heinz, Senior Division Manager, Primary
Operations at ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor and Heart Walk Champion, Wright
Alcorn, Vice President of Operations at Methodist Hospitals.
A special piano
performance by Logan Castleton will showcase the work of the American Heart
Association.
Logan was just 10
days old when he had his first open heart surgery and has had over a dozen
surgeries since then. Logan participated in his first heart walk 10 years
ago at Coffee Creek Ð being pulled by his parents in a little red wagon. Now
he is 11 years old and is an accomplished pianist having performed for Tom
Hanks, George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Danny DeVito and many other stars.
The work of local
sponsors ArcelorMittal and Methodist Hospitals, as well as volunteers and
donors who have supported the mission of the American Heart Association for
over a decade and helped fund medical research, breakthroughs and
advancements are part of the reason Logan is able to play the piano and
celebrate with fellow survivors as a healthy and strong 11 year old boy.