The Fourth Annual Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Rock Painting and Memorial Walk is a two-part event that takes place every year. This year there will be more time to contribute to the rock painting portion of the event which will be held on August 15 and 16, then again on September 12 and 13 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The actual memorial walk will be held at 9:00 am on September 21. Castle Country Radio sat down with Event Organizer, Landrie Anderson who shared details about the event.
“So it started as a Service Project directed towards Childhood Cancer Awareness, and it is still a Service Project but we’re now an official non-profit organization. So we can take in donations to help us keep this project going, bigger with more supplies, flyers, advertisement, things like that,” said Anderson. This is the fourth year that this event has been held and it keeps growing every year.
The rock painting portion of the event will be offered more days this year than before. “Everything is provided, all of the rocks are already painted gold, and then you come, basically with an idea or not, your choice of whether you want to do animals, names, kind words, symbols. Anything at all positive or that reminds you of somebody that has gone through this,” said Anderson. Again, the painting sessions will be held on August 15 and 16, then again on September 12 and 13 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at 20 North Carbon Avenue.
The Memorial Walk will take place on Saturday, September 21 at 9:00 am at the north end of the Price River Trail. “We meet at the north end by JBs Restaurant, walk the whole length of the trail and get to the end, where we have nearly 600 rocks from the last three years painted and placed around a tree,” said Anderson. The rocks designed this year will be added to the previous year’s rocks currently on display at the south end of the Price River Walkway.
This is event is free and open to everyone in the community. If you have any questions about the event, please visit the Go Gold Rock Painting & Memorial Walk Facebook page.