Welcome to our landing page for the third annual Catching Up with Jack 5K run/2K walk to remember Jack Fineske and help raise awareness and funds for a pediatric cancer cure. This page will serve as your central location for all details related to our event including our mission, run location, registration, and much more.
Please don’t miss this important event as we seek to continue Jack’s lifelong mission and to help support families with children on their journey of battling cancer.
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If you would like to donate, please make a check payable to the Jack Fineske Charitable Fund and send to:
1440 Arrowhead Drive
Maumee, OH 43537
Attn: Charlotte Wilson
We thank you in advance for your generosity in helping us find a pediatric cancer cure.
Jack’s undying belief was infectious to everyone around him and he has helped countless individuals and families feel closer to God as a result of his good work. We pray and hope that his strength can and will be felt by other families with children battling this terrible disease.
THE CHALLENGE HE LEFT FOR US IS TO SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIVES TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH JACK
Catching Up With Jack2018 will be located at Monclova Elementary School. We will have separate tracks for runners and families who wish to walk. The run track will be 5K in length while our walking track will be 2K in length.
Monclova Elementary School
8035 Monclova Road
Monclova, Ohio
If you have questions, please contact Charlotte Wilson at 419-794-7687
Original article on 13abc.com: Family of local boy who died of brain cancer turns their pain into action
MONCLOVA (WTVG) – September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and the numbers are staggering. Every day, 43 kids are diagnosed with cancer. The average age is just six-years-old. 12% of the children who are diagnosed with cancer do not survive. A local family who lost a child to the disease is working to help change those numbers with a special event next month.
Jack Fineske lost his battle against brain cancer when he was just 11-years-old. His family has turned their private loss into a way to help others. Catching Up With Jack is a walk and 5k in Jack’s memory. What they’ve accomplished with the event in the three years since his death has added up to a whole lot of help.
This is how Jack’s uncle Jim Herrick describes him, “He was kind. He was loving, and he was thoughtful.” His family says Jack kept all those traits as he battled brain cancer.
His father Brady Fineske says Jack was just two days shy of his sixth birthday when he was first diagnosed, “Jack had a brain tumor at the base of his brain stem. He had surgery to remove it, and he went through several rounds of radiation and chemo.”
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(http://www.13abc.com/content/news/Family-of–local-boy-who-died-of-brain-cancer-turns-their-pain-into-action–492026321.html)
