The Plymouth-Canton
Educational Park’s National Honor Society will host our third annual 5K on May
5, 2013 at 8:00am on the high school campus.
This event was created in 2011 in honor of sixteen year old P-CEP
student, Jesse Lindlbauer, when a sinus infection turned into an abscess which
ruptured, causing a traumatic brain injury. The SJ5K run was created in order
to bring the community support to the family and raise money.
After a successful event
in 2011, the National Honor Society decided to make the SJ5K an annual event to
honor local families in need. This year, the race will support three P-CCS
students. Our hope is to bring the community together to bring hope, support
and necessary funds to the Plymouth-Canton community’s Jayden Gohl, Plymouth
High School’s Erinne Williams, and Salem High School’s Max Merget.
Jayden Gohl was born
with hydrocephalus, a rare medical condition in which fluid builds up in the
brain. Jayden was not expected to live past 6 months, but he beat the odds and
is now 4 years old. Jayden has been through 7 brain surgeries and countless
doctor appointments. Jayden needs to be watched around the clock and his mother
Lauren faces challenges providing for Jayden since she cannot have a full time
job.
Erinne
Williams is a 15 year old student at Plymouth High School and has lived with
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a motor neuron disease similar to ALS (Lou
Gehrig’s disease) since before her first birthday. Since her diagnosis, Erinne
has been through nineteen pneumonias, eleven surgeries, and twenty one
hospitalizations. She is confined to a wheelchair and forced to use a breathing
machine.
Max
Merget is a senior at Salem High School who has battled brain cancer since he
was three. In January of 2013, Max was diagnosed with cancer for the fourth
time. The previous three times Max beat the cancer, and he is optimistic about
beating the cancer for a fourth time. Max loves baseball and has spent his time
volunteering—especially for the new Mott’s Children’s Hospital—and has created a
nonprofit foundation called maxyourbrain in conjunction with the University of
Michigan to help raise money for cancer research. For more information, please
visit www.MaxYourBrain.org.
Please join us to raise
money and support for these three amazing students by participating in the
SJ5K, donating funds, or sponsoring the race.
It will be held on Sunday, May 5th, 2013 at 8am beginning at the
Canton Varsity Football Field. Registration
will begin March 4th and continue until race day; registrations
received prior to April 5th will include a race shirt. Registration forms can be found on the SJ5K
Facebook page; on the P-CEP website; or, in Canton, Plymouth and Salem Main Offices. Event fees are $25 for adults over 18 and $20
for all others. An optional $5 will be accepted for the maxyourbrain Foundation,
as well as a bag of returnable cans on race day (just bring them with you—we
will return and donate the money).
We will never turn down
help! For questions about the race or
volunteering, please contact one of the two student coordinators for this
year’s event. Devin Slominski can be contacted at devinslim@comcast.net and Madeline
Viergutz can be contacted at sj5krun2013@gmail.com.
For questions about becoming a sponsor, contact Andrew Kelty at Akelty28@yahoo.com. All donations and
sponsorships can be made out to “NHS SJ5K 2013” and can be mailed to Pam Davis,
46370 Spinning Wheel, Canton, MI 48187.
You may also participate
by cheering participants as a course safety volunteer; these positions will be
posted on the following online sign up Google document beginning on March 17th: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkxDZkpOHrsmdGowbkRzdGJlUkxRTWdrX0M4UXA0cEE#gid=0%20%0D%0A
