By Stephen Chupaska
Senior Staff Writer
The Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation is looking for volunteers to help out with its annual marathon-length Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut.
According to marketing director Shawna Constantine, organizers are hoping to have people distribute water to the participants and help register runners and walkers.
The Walk Across Southeastern Connecticut, which will take place on Oct. 4, will see some changes this year.
Constantine said the walk will allow relay teams to enter the walk, so that one person does not have to walk, or run, the entire marathon route.
“It is a way to get more sneakers on the ground,” she said.
Those interested can either sign up as a two- or five-person team.
The route has remained the same. It will start in Monument Park in Old Saybrook, then it will take walkers across the Baldwin Bridge to Route 156 in Old Lyme through East Lyme before finishing at Harkness Memorial State Park.
Constantine said the TBBCF decided to discontinue its fund-raising post-race concert at Stash’s in New London.
Instead, the foundation, named for the Waterford native who died of breast cancer in 2005, has been hosting smaller fund-raisers such as golf tournaments and a “bra art” auction.
For more information on the walk, visit www.tbbcf.org.
RTM Notes
The Representative Town Meeting voted unanimously to appoint Lauris J. Schwietzer to fill a vacancy on the Senior Citizens Commission. The term will expire April 6, 2010.
Also, the RTM appointed Kristen Pfefferkorn to the Ethics Commission, a term that will expire on Feb. 1, 2010.
The RTM also extended the collective bargaining agreement with the Waterford Police Union through June 30, 2011.
A total of $29,530 is RTM-approved for improvements to Spithead Road. The RTM also appropriated $472,000 from the Capital Improvement budget for the continuing renovation of Waterford High School.