06-06-25 Update from Mary

Friday, June 6, 2025

Hunger Network reported that 1,140 participants made the 37th Annual Walk & 5K Run the single best-attended fundraiser in the event’s history. Thank you to each and every one of our 182 Runners, 911 Walkers, 47 Cheerleaders, and 66 Volunteers. We could not have done it without YOU! Hunger Network’s mission to feed our communities’ future is realized because of your passion and support.

Congratulation to our fastest runners!

1st Place: Jackson Heisner; 18:36:66 (2 TIME WINNER)

2nd Place: Matthew Hill; 21:02:55

3rd Place: Jack Wells; 21:14:07

Walk for Hunger & 5k Run Committee:

Karen Hardwick – Committee Chair

Committee Members:

Amanda Parker, Daa’iyah Rahman, Mary Levtzow,

Molly Speyer, Robbye DiVito, Teresa Simonson, Karen Gil

Special Thanks To:

Mary Levtzow and Chico – Mary Cares Much, Presenting Sponsor

Joe Dose – Chair, Hunger Network Board of Trustees

Pastor Leonard Killings – Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church

Jeff Tanchak & Jen Picciano – Channel 19 News

Moondog – The Cleveland Cavaliers

Miranda DiBiasio – Bridge Rehab & Performance

The Fairytale Princesses

Jeanne Hurt – Bloom Event Production

Thank all members and friends of Westlake’s St. Paul Lutheran for your prayers and donations of treasures, talents, food, and funds. Your active partnership through COG – Community Of Goodness – involvement keeps SPL Hunger Warriors a vital representative of Jesus’ loving Head, Heart, and Hands. Blessings, Mary & Chico

St. Paul Lutheran Hunger Warriors still need Food Donations throughout the summer months; so, let us all try to bring one or two food items when we are able to attend Church this summer: peanut butter, GRAPE JAM, Stew, Corned Beef, WIDE NOODLES, tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, canned vegetables, CANNED SLICED PEACHES, CEREAL, oatmeal variety packs, SPAM, canned Chicken Breast, RAMEN NOODLES, snacks for children. We need the above food items by Thursday, June 20, for the Immanuel Hunger Program Delivery. Bless you for putting the needs of others as a priority.

SPL Hunger Warriors needs food item donations. Please click the button below to see what else needs to be donated!

• January – Immanuel, Redeemer, Trinity
• February – Parma, Trials For Hope, Church of the Ascension
• March – Calvary Lutheran, New Covenant, St. John Nottingham Food Programs
• April – St. Philips Our Daily Bread
• May – Lorain Cooperative Ministry & Redeemer & Immanuel
• June - Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland – 36th Annual Walk for Hunger – Zoo
• July – Lakewood Community Service Center & North Ridgeville Community Care
• August – Westlake Assistance Program & Faith Lutheran
• September – Parma Hunger & Our Savior Mayfield Heights
• October – Royal Redeemer & Zion Painesville & Christians In Action Olmsted Falls
• November - Redeemer, Immanuel, & Trinity
• December – Christ/Our Savior, & 300 each Center (Which Means that we need $7900 in December)