by Lauren's Foundation | Jan 25, 2023 | News
Three area nonprofits recently teamed up with the Reading Royals to raise awareness and funds to help fight pediatric cancer. Pediatric Cancer Awareness Night was held during the Jan. 7 hockey game at Santander Arena and honored survivors, loved ones and families...
by Lauren's Foundation | Jun 14, 2022 | News
It was the summer before Sarala Martin’s junior year at Wilson High School when she got the news that would change her life in so many ways. She learned that her mom, Barbara Hanlon, had been diagnosed with a GBM brain tumor — the most deadly type. But when she heard...
by Lauren's Foundation | Oct 31, 2021 | News
The Fitzy’s 5K Halloween Event returned on Sunday with what organizers projected to be a record number of participants. Around 600 people of all ages, many of them costumed, took part in the race beginning and ending at The Stone House in Wyomissing, with more still...
by Lauren's Foundation | Oct 25, 2020 | News
About 200 runners beat the rain Sunday morning during the annual Fitzy’s Halloween 5k and Fun Run. The event at Stone House Park, Wyomissing, is a memorial to Lauren Fitzgerald, a Wyomissing High School graduate who died of a brain tumor at age 20 in 2005. “She was...
by Lauren's Foundation | Jan 18, 2020 | News
Lauren’s Foundation, a Wyomissing-based nonprofit, presented $2,500 to Wyomissing Borough Council on Tuesday at the board’s meeting. The donation was made to support children’s programs sponsored and run by the parks and recreation and police departments. In the past,...
by Lauren's Foundation | Oct 27, 2019 | News
Hundreds turned out Sunday morning to run through puddles and mud for the 15th annual Fitzy’s Halloween 5K Run. Despite the deluge of rain many of the 400 pre-registered runners came out and about a dozen more signed up Sunday morning. “We’ve had rain, hurricane rain,...
