More than 100 Sonoma State University students, led by SSU senior David Wight, will relay from San Francisco back to Sonoma State in an effort to raise money for children in local hospitals.
The event titled "Skate-4-Fate" will take place on Saturday, Oct. 13. The money raised from sponsors will go to purchase toys and stuffed animals for children in local hospitals such as Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Wight began the program in 1997, after he spent time in hospitals for a disease which was never classified nor cured. That year he skated from Monterey to San Francisco and raised over $1,700. This year, the third Skate-4-Fate will be set up like a team relay.
Participants will use any physical means they choose, such as in-line skating, bicycling, skateboarding or running, to complete as many sections of the over 60 mile distance as they can and will then break and others will
replace them if necessary. "We already have firm dedication from a number of individuals to travel the whole distance," says Wight.
Sonoma State University fraternity Phi Delta Theta, of which Wight is the vice president, as well as other fraternities and sororities and members of SSU Police Services will participate. But anyone is invited to join in, says Wight.
For further information, phone (707) 548-5746.
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A tough band of fifty fraternity brothers, police officers and others from Sonoma State University will travel the miles from Crissy Field in San Francisco to the SSU campus on Saturday in a drive to raise money for children in Sonoma County hospitals.
SSU senior David Wight, organizer of this third year of the Skate-4-Fate, says the group has already received $1,000 in pledges and may earn as much as $2,000 total from subsequent donations before the drive is over.
Wight says the group will gather at Crissy Field in San Francisco between 7:30-8a.m. on Saturday. Participants include10 people on roller blades, 30 on bicycles and 10 on skateboards or on foot. They will be wearing Skate-4-Fate t-shirts and expect to arrive back on the SSU campus between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
