THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, October 13, 1995 TAG: 9510110201
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 18 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ERIC FEBER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 41 lines
Time to wear out shoe leather to help fight hunger.
The annual Chesapeake CROP Walk takes place this Sunday beginning at 2 p.m.
Registration for the 10K walk starts at 1:30 p.m.
Participants enlist sponsors who donate a certain amount of money for each step walked. Proceeds from the event will be used to help fight hunger nationally and locally.
Last year, 79 people participated in Chesapeake's CROP Walk and raised $3,844 of which $961.15 came back to Chesapeake.
The local money was used by the Community Resource Network in food closets at Great Bridge, at the Human Resources Center in Crestwood and at the Chesapeake Avenue United Methodist Church.
The following churches took part in last year's CROP Walk: Apostles Lutheran, Chesapeake Avenue United Methodist, Deep Creek United Methodist, Great Bridge Presbyterian, Greenbrier Presbyterian, Haygood United Methodist, Mount Pleasant Mennonite, New Weeping Mary Baptist, Portlock United Methodist, Prince of Peace Catholic and St. Thomas Episcopalian.
Over the past 10 years, the Chesapeake effort has raised $97,995 of which $24,498 has come back to the local community.
Nationally, last year's CROP Walk saw the participation of more than 3 million walkers and sponsors.
CROP walks are fund-raising efforts of the Church World Service, an international relief, development and refugee resettlement agency of 32 Protestant and Orthodox denominations in the United States.
Sunday's 6.1-mile walk will begin at Lakeside Park at the corner of Bainbridge Boulevard and Byrd Avenue in South Norfolk.
More information is available by calling Dave Pritchard at 436-0305. by CNB