04.09.07

REMINDER | HEIDI ANN MCFARLANE FUNDRAISER | GET IN GEAR 10K, 5K & 2K RUN/WALK

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THE 30th ANNUAL GET IN GEAR RUN | IN HONOR OF HEIDI ANN MCFARLANE

Please join us for the 30th Annual Get In Gear 10k, 5k and 2k Run/Walk on Saturday, April 28th, 2007

at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis, MN to show your support for Heidi Ann McFarlane.

Heidi Ann McFarlane has been battling an unknown brain disease since June of 2005. A once active marathon runner herself, Heidi has been physically incapacitated for more than a year. In fact, Heidi has not stood upright on her own two feet since late 2005 and has not spoken an understandable word since June of 2006. Having been in and out of hospitals since November of last year, Heidi currently resides at Texas Terrace Nursing Home in St. Louis Park, MN. In January of 2007, KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, MN produced a story about Heidi and her mystery illness.

Heidi has always been a wonderful inspiration to those around her, but the strength she has shown over the past year and a half is nothing short of spectacular. Without speaking a word, Heidi continues to inspire great selflessness by those whose lives she touches. The daily courage, strength and determination Heidi exhibits in her fight to regain the vitality she lost has motivated Heidi’s friends Karen Loomis and Lisa Wurm to organize “Heidi’s Angels” which will participate at this years Get In Gear Run/Walk in Minneapolis, MN.

WHAT: The 30th Annual Get In Gear 10k, 5k & 2k Run/Walk
WHERE: Minnehaha Park | 4825 Minnehaha Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN
WHEN: Saturday, April 28, 2007 | 2k @ 8:30am | 5k @ 9:50am | 10k @ 9:30am
COST: $23 (Note: 100% of this fee goes to the event organizers. 0% of this money will go to support Heidi.)

REGISTER: Join “Heidi’s Angels” and register for the Get In Gear run/walk.

(When registering, YOU MUST select “Corporate Get In Gear 5k, 10k & 2k” to identify yourself as a member of Team Heidi.)

“HEIDI’S ANGELS” GIVING

Heidi’s fight to survive has required great personal and financial sacrifice. Access to the brightest professionals at the best medical institutions as well as the appropriate rehabilitation and skilled nursing facilities has come at great financial expense. Heidi is currently enjoying the peacefulness of her own private room (additional $25 per day, $750 per month) at Texas Terrace and we are investigating the effectiveness of a computer device from DynaVox which we hope will help Heidi communicate in the future. Members of “Heidi’s Angels” are asked to make a minimum contribution of $25 to help maintain her private living quarters and defray the expenses associated with additional rehabilitation and the technology required to help Heidi communicate with her family and friends.

Jim Sanford at the law firm of Stephenson & Sanford, P.L.C. in Wayzata, MN has prepared the “Heidi Ann McFarlane Special Needs Trust”. To make a contribution, please make your check payable to “Heidi Ann McFarlane Special Needs Trust”. Contributions may be sent to Rick Lindquist, 2551 Bridle Creek Trail, Chanhassen, MN 55317 or

Bill McFarlane, 8611 Wood Cliff Circle South, Bloomington, MN 55438.

SPECIAL NOTE: Contributing members of “Heidi’s Angels” will be presented with a special long sleeve t-shirt to be worn during the race in her honor. Following the run/walk, members of “Heidi’s Angels” will be invited to attend a post-race reception (food and beverages provided) at a location yet to be determined. God willing, Heidi herself will be there to welcome and thank her supporters. Details to follow.

For more information about Heidi’s Angles, you can go to http://www.heidisangels.org/.

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