Fall Festival 5k Foot Race

image The Fall Festival 5k Foot Race was a fantastic success! Thank you to all who were involved.
We raised more than twice our goals of two surgeries and were able to send off enough money for five surgeries! This will change the lives of five children. Upcoming for winter 2011 we are planning a drive for stuffed animals to send to Operation Smile and a carnation drive for Valentine's Day to start the New Year'sfundraising for Halldale Operation Smile. Thank you again for those who helped make the race such a success. The donation button is still alive and well in case you wish to donate to Halldale Operation Smile. Happy Holidays!

NEWS

We raised enough to fund five operations for these kids!

- Kate Cart

Operation Smile

Image Cleft palates and lips are types of facial deformities that can cause complications concerning the consumption of food, health, speech and social situations. Many families around the world do not have the ability to provide their children with the necessary corrective surgeries. This is where Operation Smile steps in; Throughout the years thousands of volunteer medical professionals have traveled to impoverished nations to set ups clinics to provide the needed surgeries. Hall-Dale Operation Smile's mission is to help this fantastic cause to continue flourishing.

Hall-Dale's Operation Smile

Feature 1 In 2009 Kate Cart started the Hall-Dale chapter of Operation Smile to help children in need of surgery for cleft palette and cleft lip. read more

Links

You can do a lot

Your contributions can help children around the world have a much better life.

  • help children
  • Train doctors
  • donate items

5k Foot Race

Image Benefitting Hall-Dale Operation Smile (OperationSmile.org) 8:00 AM Saturday, October 16th, 2010
8 AM race starts and finishes near the Hallowell Pier on the Kennebec River, bottom of Winthrop street, in downtown Hallowell. The five kilometer course runs parallel to the beautiful Kennebec River on the Hallowell-Augusta Rail Trail.
Route: Starts at 2 Mile Marker on the Hallowell Rail Trail. Goes towards Augusta for 1.55 miles. Route doubles back on itself and finishes at starting line.
Registration: 6:30 - 8:00 AM at the Hallowell Pier, bottom of Winthrop Street.
Pre-registration: By mail and online here, received before October 13th, to HDOS Race, 3 Page Street, Hallowell Maine 04347 T-Shirt Guarantee: Race t-shirts for all registrations received by September 20th.

Awards

Image After the race gift baskets & gift certificates to 1st M/F Overall
and 1st M/F in following age categories:
13 & under, 14-16, 17-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70+
Questions: Email: Kate Cart at HDOS5K2010@yahoo.com

GLOBAL STANDARDS OF CARE

Image "In 2007, we implemented our Global Standards of Care — our commitment to ensuring that every patient treated by Operation Smile will benefit from the same sophisticated equipment, procedures and highly trained, credentialed medical volunteers, no matter where they receive treatment. Safety of children is our number one concern." from Operation Smile read more

Your Gift

Your gifts transform lives
• For a little as $240, you can help provide a cleft lip or cleft palate surgery. This surgery can change a child's life forever and can take as few as 45 minutes.
• Operation Smile has more than 4,000 credentialed medical volunteers ready to donate their time and talent. Your gifts help send them to countries where desperate children are waiting to be healed.
Your gifts help us teach and train healthcare professionals
• We have a worldwide network of teaching hospitals and university partners, including Duke University, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and many others.
• Your gifts help support our life-support training programs worldwide. Today, Operation Smile is authorized by the American Heart Association to function as a global and mobile International Training Organization.
• Our annual Physicians' Training Program (PTP) brings doctors and nurses from around the world to the United States for advanced training in their specialized fields.

Race Sponsors

Our thanks for your help
The following businesses have sponsored our Fall Fest 5k for HDOS 2010. Thank you again and enjoy the race.

  • Kennebec Savings Bank... click here
  • Hallowell Family Practice...Hallowell, Maine
  • Road ID... Road ID
  • g-blu Design for web and poster design... g-blu design

About us

Hall-Dale Operation Smile was founded by Kate Cart in early 2010. This was a project very important to her. She organized several fundraisers over 2010 to raise money for Operation Smile operations. The biggest project of the year was the October 2010 5k footrace. After coordinating the help of high schiool volunteers the day fo the race dawned a bit brisk but with a large crowd of eager runners. That day Halldale Operation Smile raised enough to fund 5 operations for children with cleft palette.

The Spring donation drive brought in hundred of toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, toys and many other items to be given to the children after their operations.

The big push organizing the October Fest 5K Foot race was well worth it. Look for the race for 2011.

About Us

Kate Cart

Hall-Dale High School Senior

Contact us

Drop us a note if you have any questions about Hall-Dales's chapter of Operation Smile or if you have questions about the 5k Foot race.