Five years ago, toward the end of my time as a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune, I wrote a feature on Marc DeLise, then a police sergeant with the Oak Brook Police who was raising awareness and money for Kids In Need and the Illinois Torch Run for Special Olympics.
Since then, Marc’s retired from the force, but he’s hardly the retiring type. He’s now in the midst of walking 900 miles from Chicago to New York in a fundraiser dubbed Road to Remember.
The mission is to raise funds for children of police officers, firefighters and military personnel who perished in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
As it turns out, Marc is a longstanding member of Five Seasons Family Sports Club in Burr Ridge, where I have been the publicist since 2007 and where Marc prepared in anticipation of his cross-country walk.
So it was a pleasure–and a bit of deja vu–this past week to develop a news release in support of the Road to Remember cause, including a tie-in to Five Seasons.
Want to track Marc’s progress? Visit Facebook and type “Road To Remember” into the search box.
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