25th Annual Champions Fighting Cancer Walk 2024

A time-honored tradition in the heart of a resilient Massachusetts city drew outstanding crowds on May 5^th, 2024, for an annual community effort to raise vital necessary funds for cancer programs and services in the area.

Despite the cooler spring weather, the 25^th Annual Champions Fighting Cancer Walk gathered thousands to walk 4.5 miles from Brockton High School to the Greene Cancer Center. The route featured a water stop at the Central Branch YMCA underscoring Signature Healthcare’s partnership with the Old Colony YMCA on health and wellness programs. Completely staffed and organized by volunteers, proceeds go directly to cancer programs and services at Signature Healthcare as well as the Chrystine M. Sullivan Memorial Foundation and its community partners.

The Chrystine Sullivan Memorial Foundation’s partnership with Signature-Healthcare Foundation to hold the annual Champion's Fighting Cancer Walk over the years has become a foundational community event for the long-standing city of Brockton for a quarter of a century.

Withstanding the test of time, the energy of the event was one of shared love, loss, and dedication to the pursuit of a full life for every person despite diagnosis. This specific effort is a testament to the message of hope and resiliency in the face of cancer, with some attendees flying in from other states to participate. One familiar family of faces has been known to travel collectively over 1,000 miles to reunite every year for the walk!

It was clear from smiling faces and hands held tightly that love continues to be the focal point of the event. The walk's origin can be traced back to a tale of perseverance and selflessness centered around a mother of 5 and her brave battle with breast cancer. As Mother’s Day was observed this month of May the story of Chrystine M. Sullivan, a mother of 5 and the woman who inspired the collective effort, is one that resonated with many attendees of the walk.

Chrystine M. Sullivan was a humanitarian who dedicated her time and resources to bring positivity and aid to terminally ill children and their families. Despite facing her own diagnosis of metastasized breast cancer, Chrystine did not allow the doctor's prediction of a single year left to live stop her from bravely fighting on. Surrounded by her husband Bob Sullivan, five children, young grandson, and close friends Chrystine reclaimed an additional 5 years before finding peace after a long battle with cancer.

A moving testament to resiliency, her battle inspired her friends and family to continue her legacy. An endowment was established in her name and the Chrystine M. Sullivan Memorial Fund was created the very year Chrystine passed, 1999. With a mission true to the Sullivan family values, the Foundation is dedicated to "providing assistance for treatment and other support services of cancer patients on the South Shore of Massachusetts who could not otherwise afford it. 100% of our fundraising efforts go directly to supporting these causes". Taken directly from the Chrystine Sullivan Memorial Foundation website, these words continue to ring true through the partnership with Signature-Healthcare Foundation to continue the valuable work of fundraising for the fight against cancer.

Sullivan Tire would like to thank and highlight EVERY VOLUNTEER who helped create and maintain this incredible charitable event! It is our collective efforts that keep our communities centered on the most important part: each other.

Many Sullivan Tire staff across different locations in Massachusetts came together and went above and beyond to support not only a worthy collective cause, but their colleague’s personal reasons for participation. It was a beautiful and unifying effort within the company’s first year as Employee-Owned.

Company shuttles were provided to transport Walk participants back to their vehicles after the last mile celebration, volunteer tables featured familiar Sullivan Tire faces, as well as a new additional support of a personal gift to each participating child at the Walk. Generously donated by the Fitzgibbons Family and represented by a long-time employee of the company, stuffed animals were handed out to each child as token of love and comradery to younger participants whose lives and families may have been touched by the disease.

The Annual Champions Fighting Cancer Walk is the signature charity event of Sullivan Tire and Auto Service. The event kicks off an exciting upcoming event season for the company!

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