Community collaboration at Walk to End Alzheimer’s

Staff with the Alzheimer’s Association Washington State Chapter visited Sequim for their fourth consecutive year to host the North Olympic Peninsula Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday, Sept. 26.

September 30, 2015 3:00 am
Nearly every participant held a “Promise Garden” flower of a different color to show their own connection to Alzheimer’s disease. Blue represented someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia; purple was for someone who has lost a loved one to the disease; yellow was for those currently supporting or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s; and orange was for everyone who supports an end to Alzheimer’s.
Nearly every participant held a “Promise Garden” flower of a different color to show their own connection to Alzheimer’s disease. Blue represented someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia; purple was for someone who has lost a loved one to the disease; yellow was for those currently supporting or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s; and orange was for everyone who supports an end to Alzheimer’s.

Staff with the Alzheimer’s Association Washington State Chapter visited Sequim for their fourth consecutive year to host the North Olympic Peninsula Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Saturday, Sept. 26.

About 200 people from across the peninsula attended the walk and raised more than $31,000 to put toward the association’s vision of “a world without Alzheimer’s disease.”

To present and discuss the draft state plan under way aimed at addressing Alzheimer’s disease, officials with the association will hold a town hall meeting from 1:30 p.m.-3 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the Shipley Center, 921 E. Hammond St.