St. Louis Chapter VisionWalk Feature Story

On Sunday, September 23rd twenty nine teams and over 550 walkers gathered at Tower Grove Park's Pool Pavilion to raise funds and awareness for retinal degenerative disease research. Our walkers raised over $113,000 for retinal research!! Congratulations to our teams and walkers on a great season of advocacy!

We want to extend a huge thank you to our walk co-chairs, Leslie Morris and Laura Abrams, for their tremendously hard work this year. We also want to thank our 2012 VisionWalk Committee, who worked diligently to ensure our day was perfect.

This year's sponsors included: Centric Group, The Dennis M. Jones Family Foundation, Crawford Taylor Foundation, Anita & James O'Connell, The Morris Family, Lighthouse for the Blind, First National Bank of St. Louis, Emerson Electric, Bausch + Lomb, The von Gontard Family Foundation, Solutia Inc. and Express Scripts.

We also want to thank the St. Louis Cardinals for sending their mascot, Fredbird, out to celebrate with us! And of course, a huge thank you to our volunteers from the Maplewood Lions Club, Delta Gammas of Washington University and Kohl's, who ensured the day ran very smoothly.