Team Sarcoma/Jennifer Hunter Yates Sarcoma Foundation (JHYSF)

Susan Erickson of the Jennifer Hunter Yates Sarcoma Foundation organized a Team Sarcoma/JHYSF as part of Team Sarcoma 2006. After their event, Susan sent us the following report, "On Saturday, July 1^st, 24 people joined the Jennifer Hunter Yates Sarcoma Foundation to raise awareness about sarcoma by walking Boston’s famous Freedom Trail.  Walkers included Jennifer’s family, a sarcoma survivor and her family, and a woman who had lost her husband to sarcoma. On the way to the event, a walker who is a sarcoma survivor, stopped at Dunkin Donuts to get an iced coffee. A neighbor, looking at her shirt, asked her what she was doing today. She told him she was walking to raise awareness about sarcoma, and he told her that his father was battling sarcoma. While on our walk, another person stopped us when she saw our t-shirts. Her sister had recently been diagnosed with sarcoma, and it gave her “chills up her spine” when she spotted us. Our walk went through centuries old burying grounds, through the crowded Haymarket Square, in through the North End, where we stopped and had lunch, down to Boston’s Waterfront, through the equally bustling Fanueil Hall Marketplace, and ended up on a swan boat ride in the Boston Public Garden. One of JHYSF’s goals is to raise public awareness about this deadly form of cancer, and on the hot streets of Boston that day, this goal was accomplished." Here are some photos taken during their walk.

Team Sarcoma/JHYSF outside of the Old State House in Boston

Among the walkers were a sarcoma survivor and her family and a woman who has lost her husband to sarcoma.

We encountered a woman whose sister is currently battling sarcoma.

All of Jen’s nieces and nephews posed in front of this sunflower cow. The sunflower is one of the symbols of the JHYSF.