Personally I think the key to the sucess of this event is its fun, communionship nature along with helping out a good cause. It makes you feel good on multiple levels.
Growing up my father was a major fund raiser for Saint Judes Children Research Hospital. For those heathens
out there, St. Jude is the patron saint of lost or impossible causes. Hence the name of the hospital. Think about it. Lost or impossible causes, in this case deceases, in children.
I spent a fair amount of time around children my own age that stood little chance of seeing adulthood. The experience has left a permanant impression on me.
CF is a genetic decease. You are born with it. Only about 2 out of 5 children with the decease live past 18. Even then the average life span is only 30-33. These life spans are up considerably over years ago.
ONE IN APPROXIMATELY 29 OF THOSE READING THIS POST CARRY THE DEFECTIVE GENE AND WILL PASS IT TO YOUR CHILDREN.
So where does the money go? I can tell where it doesn't come from. It doesn't come out of the sufferers of CF pocket.
Rick