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Ninth Annual Live Like Jake 5K Raises Over $100,000

For Drowning Prevention During National Water Safety Month

Over 1,100 runners helped The Live Like Jake Foundation, a local nonprofit created in The huge crowd of participants,
memory of Jake Roarke Morrison, raise over $100,000 during the Ninth Annual Live Like which included families who have
Jake 5K on April 29 in downtown Abacoa. lost a child from drowning, Infant
Self Rescue (ISR) instructors, school
groups and sponsors were excited to
return once more to the downtown
Abacoa bandshell in support of
Palm Beach County’s 2023-voted
No. 1 nonprofit. Runners and their
families helped the local nonprofit
raise funds that will go directly to
supporting children and their families
whose lives have been impacted by
drowning incidents, as well as to The DiSabato family came out to the Live Like Jake
provide scholarships for self-rescue 5K to race in memory of their late child, Mikey.
swim lessons for families in need.
The day included a prerace warmup provided by HEW Fitness Boynton Beach; continental
breakfast from Crux Coffee and Trader Joe’s; opening welcome from Live Like Jake founders
Keri and Roarke Morrison and the 7:30 a.m. runner’s start. Following the race, participants

Ninth Annual Live Like Jake on page 3
The family of Jake Roarke Morrison
Bright Colors And Bold Prints
Bachelor Auction For Blood Took Center Stage At

Cancer Is A HUGE Success The Arc’s WILD Pants Party

The 12th Annual
Bachelor Auction for Blood Bigger than life personalities hit the runway and
Cancer hosted by Valerie struck a pose in their most WILD pants. On Friday,
Fiordilino Maslow held on April 28, The Arc of Palm Beach County hosted
April 20 at Joscō Garden in their annual WILD Pants “fun-raiser” at Loggerhead
Tequesta brought in one of Marinelife Center to raise money for children and
its most successful nights adults with developmental disabilities.
ever! This year’s event “We put the party in fundraising, and it’s
raised nearly $200,000 heartwarming to see the overwhelming support and
to benefit The Leukemia wild fashion from the community,” said Kimberly
and Lymphoma Society McCarten, president and CEO of The Arc of Palm
in memory of Valerie’s Beach County. “Our clients rely on us every day,
father, Leo who passed and the community’s support helps us advance
away in 2009 from a battle our mission to defy definitions and change the Aaron Menitoff, Ryan Beckett, Julie
with chronic lymphocytic conversation around disabilities.” Menitoff with Leo Lencina-Medina
leukemia (CLL). The night Victor Concepcion Tyler Cameron
was emceed by Virginia
Sinicki of the KVJ show and Josh Cohen of ESPN West Palm. The night featured
an extensive silent auction, a raffle for a trip to Barbados, and a spectacular live

Bachelor Auction on page 4

Nicholas Osborn, April Jamie Howard, Amanda
Osborn Atwater Jackie Applebaum, David
Applebaum
Arc’s WILD Pants Party on page 2