Kick off the new year and join the Snowflake Streak!

By Catherine Rice, Vice President of Marketing/Outreach at Health Partnership Clinic

Raising Dollars, Awareness for Uninsured Neighbors

On Saturday morning, Jan. 25, 2025, teams and individuals will don their winter hats and gloves to walk in Health Partnership Clinic’s first annual Snowflake Streak in Olathe, Kan. The peer-to-peer fundraising walk—which raises money for our low income and uninsured children and adults—will be held at the Olathe Community Center/Stagecoach Park. Walkers will enjoy pre and post walk activities including a short program, brisk walk around the 0.97-mile walking trail loop and breakfast. Joe Lauria, evening news meteorologist for FOX4, will serve as the event’s emcee.

The event goal is to raise $50,000. We invite area companies, vendors, schools, civic and church groups and the overall community to participate by being a sponsor, forming a team or both. To date, we have 23 teams and have raised more than $23,000! To learn how, visit us at hpcks.org/snowflake.

A heartfelt thank you to the following businesses who are supporting Snowflake Streak: Presenting-AdventHealth; Wintry-City of Olathe; Cozy Community-Enterprise Bank, Entrepreneurs Alliance, Olathe Health-Part of The University of Kansas Health System and The Purple Guys; Hot Cocoa and Coffee Bar-Blue Gurus and Frosty-Davidson Promotional, Farmers Bank of KC and Olathe Noon Optimists Club.

HOW IT WORKS?

You can walk as an individual, become a team captain and recruit others to be on your team, or you can join a team. There are individual incentives and team prizes, activities, breakfast after the walk, including a hot chocolate and coffee bar.

Team registration—which can be one person or more—is open until Thursday, Jan. 16. Although there is no fee to walk, we encourage individuals to raise $100 which will underwrite the cost of providing a rapid RSV, strep or flu test for two uninsured children.

Those raising $100 will receive a Snowflake Streak t-shirt. There are also other incentives including a hot/cold tumbler set, blanket shawl, fleece jacket, Garmin Activity Tracker, etc. The more you raise, the more incentives you earn! There will be prizes for Best Dressed Team and Individual Adult and Child, Top Fundraising and Most Team Members.

Come kick off the new year with a brisk walk for your own health and for others! To learn more about the walk or how to sponsor, click on the QR Code below.