JESSICA CREAMER, right, and Laura Creamer help each other pin on their numbers before their 5K event at the Dempsey Challenge on Saturday in Lewiston. Despite temperatures just below freezing, the duo were excited to represent Woolwich and family members who had lost their battle with cancer recently. “I lost two sisters-in-law within two weeks of each other back in February of this year. One had been fighting cancer for six years, but the other one was dead within a week. She thought she had pneumonia and went to the hospital and within a week she was gone,” said Laura.
PATRICK DEMPSEY speaks to runners and walkers at the start of Saturday’s 5K and 10K events in Lewiston.
Thousands more took part in fundraising walking and running events on Saturday.
Dempsey, who was born in Lewiston and grew up in nearby Turner and Buckfield, was inspired to launch the weekend of running, walking and cycling events under his name following the experience of his 77- year-old mother’s battles with ovarian cancer.
The event raises more than $1 million.
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