Congratulations Schmid Family of Pennsylvania! We are so inspired by your wonderful event in honor and in memory of your darling baby Zane. It was clearly a big success, surpassing your expectations, and we are so thrilled!
Here is what Hillary wrote about the day on their website Sweet Baby Zane:
Wonderful. Everything was wonderful; the weather, the crowd, and the event itself went very smoothly. God gave us a sunny 79 degree day with a light breeze and very few clouds in the sky. We had 410 people participate in the walk/ run. Keith and I were overwhelmed with the amount of support from our families, friends, the community, and total strangers. We can’t wait until the day we tell Avery about Zane, her legacy, and the community that rallied in support of Fighting SMA.
We have a preliminary total of $12,068…absolutely fantastic! We are waiting on a final tally of the online registration and online donations from FSMA, so it will be more than that. This is an amazing number for a first time event. We are elated! To be able to send all this money to Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy and to the SMA stem cell program lead by Dr. Hans Keirstead at UC Irvine is thrilling.
I think the Schmid’s included a very fitting Mark Twain quote to describe their truly uplifting event: “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
