Steps To Defeat Diabetes

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By Michelle Mantel

Story Published: Sep 7, 2008 at 6:55 PM CST

Story Updated: Sep 7, 2008 at 11:21 PM CST

About 3-thousand people dressed in an array of colors at Peoria's Glen Oak Park to raise money for research on a childhood disease. Walkers took off for the fourth annual Central Illinois Juvenile Diabetes Walk.

Nearly 100-teams took steps to finding a cure for type-one diabetes that affects mostly children.

"All these colors are a team that's rallying around a child with diabetes. So all these shirts, there's somebody there that has diabetes and they're just here to support that," Walk Co-Chair Heather Boore says.

The money raised by the walkers will go directly to an Iowa based research firm.

Sunday, Sep 7 at 8:11 PM BK wrote ...

HOPE THE CURE COMES FOR OTHERS BECAUSE ALL THE MONIES COLLECTED THROUGH THE YEARS NEVER HELPED MY HUSBAND. IT NEVER WILL SINCE HE HAS PASSED AWAY.

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