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 Team Alzheimers:

Long time runner and CBHM veteran Jane Lemire has been involved in fundraising in the Upper Valley since 2003. Jane and her Team of runners pioneered TeamAlzheimers for CBHM in 2004 by turning 15 race entries into $7,000 in donations. Since then, TeamAlzheimers has raised over $100,000. All funds are donated to several Upper Valley private non-profit senior organizations that specialize in the care and/or services for people with dementia.

TeamAlzheimers is a totally volunteer organization that donates 100% of its proceeds back into the community.

Members of TeamAlzheimers commit to raise $350 dollars, plus pay for your registration of $75.  

To learn for about TeamAlzheimers, please email TeamAlzheimers@aol.com

 David's House: 

David’s House was founded in 1986 in memory of David Cyr, who passed away at the age of 5 ½ from leukemia. During his many hospitalizations, David often asked his parents to take the other sick and injured children home with him to his house, his safe haven away from the pain and uncertainty of what was to happen in the hospital, and they always promised him that someday he could do just that. After David passed away, his parents began collecting all of the money David had been saving “for something special,” and used it to keep that promise to young David and start what has now, 25 years later, become a home-away-from-home for over 11,500 families from around the world.

David’s House is a 15-bedroom home that can accommodate families of ill or injured children for as little as one night or many, many months while their child is receiving medical treatment at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. We also invite day guests – families who choose to stay at the hospital with their child - to use the house to do laundry, shower, get something to eat, or just find respite from the hospital setting. Donations from guests are always accepted, but we do not charge a fee and no one is ever turned away due to an inability to pay.

Members of the David’s House CBHM Team are encouraged to raise $500
(donations are tax deductible), and are responsible for the $75 race
registration fee.

In recognition of your generous support, David’s
House will provide:
  • A gathering tent at the beginning of the race with refreshments
  • A runner’s hat and David’s House 25th Anniversary commemorative pin
  • A Team David’s House photo and/or individual runner photo
To register for our team, please go to www.davids-house.org/cbhmregistration

Upper Valley Haven

Help local families struggling with homelessness and poverty.  The
Upper Valley Haven is a private not-for-profit organization, founded
in 1980, that provides temporary shelter for educational programming
for homeless families and adults, as well as food and clothing to
those in need.  We create a community where people find hope and
discover possibility.  All services are provided FREE of charge.

Most recently the Haven has been a significant community emergency
response site for tropical storm Irene, and active on the steering
committee for Upper Valley Strong, the long-term recovery group formed
to implement large scale disaster management in our area.

Commit to raise $500 and enjoy the following benefits:
  • A gathering tent at the starting area with energy bars, bagels, fruit and fluids.
  • Receive your own Haven CBHM Team T-shirt (stylish, functional, performance - a keeper!)
  • Your registration fee will be covered by the Haven.
  • Training Tips by road race experts sent by email preceding the race.
  • Team photograph and opportunity for individual photographs.
  • Transportation of personal items from that start of the race to the finish.
  • Lucky bracelets made by children living the Haven’s Shelter and participating in the Haven’s Afterschool program.
Learn more about the Haven at www.uppervalleyhaven.org.
To request a spot on our team, please e-mail kolson@uppervalleyhaven.org.


Health Connections of the Upper Valley

If you’re running in the Covered Bridge Half Marathon chances are you are neither a smoker nor obese, and you understand the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. You are a wonderful role model for others, so keep it up!  Health Connections’ principle focus is on the two most significant causes of preventable death and chronic disease: tobacco use and obesity, more specifically, youth obesity.  While we, here in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire, live in a beautiful place, the reality is approximately 19% of adults smoke and about 40% of children are exposed to second-hand smoke, primarily because they live with a smoker, and about 1 in 5 children are overweight or obese. 

To help people quit tobacco, Health Connections offers the Fresh Start program for adults and the N.O.T. (Not On Tobacco) program for teens.  Through Fresh Start, adults have access to free nicotine replacement aids, such as the patch, gum or lozenges to help them through the first few weeks of being quit.  The N.O.T. program teaches teens positive coping skills that are transferrable to other aspects of their lives besides tobacco use.  Health Connections’ Whole Foods-Whole Body and Kick’n Cook’n Classes for Kids are two nutrition education programs that educate youth about healthy eating in fun and interactive ways.

 Your fundraising will be directly used to support Health Connections’ outreach initiatives. 

We are asking runners to please raise a minimum of $500, plus pay for your registration of $75. As a thank you, you will receive a:

  • Post race Massage
  • Reusable Large Health Connections Grocery Bag
  • 20% Off Coupon for Whisper Hill Products (store located above the finish line)

  • ·         Picture of “Team Health Connections 2012”

Please go to our web site at www.myhealthconnections.org to register for the race and to learn more about Health Connections of the Upper Valley.

The Family Place

The Family Place is a Vermont designated Parent Child Center whose
mission is to help every young child have a chance of success in life.
 Through targeted programs for parents, single moms, family therapy,
quality daycare, job skills readiness, our organization works to break
the generational cycle that commits vulnerable children to a future of
repeated poverty, child maltreatment and underachievement.

All funds raised will go directly to operational needs at our location
in Norwich, VT which serves over 1100 families annually.

Members of Team Family Place commit to raise $350.00, plus pay for your registration of $75.  All
participants will be recognized in our annual report for their
support. Email Mary Brown at marybhanover@gmail.com for registration information.

To learn more about The Family Place go to: http://www.familyplacevt.org/


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