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MBU Run/Walk for Ronald
MBU Run For Ronald Details:
To register, go to mobap.edu/5k or e-mail Linda Myers at myersl@mobap.edu.
When: Oct. 15 at 8 a.m. Registration begins at 7 a.m.
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Where: West St. Louis County. The run/walk will begin on MBU’s campus and end at the Ronald McDonald House on the campus of Mercy Children's Hospital. Shuttles will be available to take participants back to MBU following the event. Strollers welcome on route.
Cost: $15.00 if registered before Oct. 3, 2011; $20.00 after Oct. 3, 2011. The first 300 participants will receive a free T-shirt.
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About Ronald McDonald House Charities: Since 1981, RMHC of Metro St. Louis has served as a “home-away-from-home” for more than 30,000 families traveling to St. Louis with seriously ill children. The Houses provide a comfortable bed, warm meals, hot showers, and a network of families who share the similar burden of having a seriously ill child. In addition, three Ronald McDonald Family Rooms have provided comfort and care to more than 10,000 families of pediatric inpatients at St. Louis hospitals since 2005. Ronald McDonald Family Rooms provide many of the same comforts of the House, but within the hospital.
About Missouri Baptist University: With more than 5,000 students, Missouri Baptist University is St. Louis’ Christ-centered university. MBU offers more than 40 undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees in education, business and religion and its new terminal degree, the Doctor of Education. In addition to its 66-acre West St. Louis County campus, MBU offers degree programs at nine regional learning centers in throughout St. Louis and in Southern Illinois and online.