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The City of LaPorte’s weekly Fitness Friday carried special meaning and drew a big crowd June 28, 2013. The fitness event was dedicated to awareness of the heroin problem in the LaPorte area, a problem that has claimed several lives within the past year.
Several hundred people joined the walk, which began at the LaPorte YMCA and traveled to Beechwood Golf Course, then back.
Toni Day, mother of the late Ethan Day, who died June 4 of a heroin overdose, addressed the crowd before the walk began. She “challenged us with a very good question,” Mayor Blair Milo said on her Facebook page: “We’re here today. Where will we be next month or next year? What will we be doing then about this devastating problem of heroin in our community?”
“We were a village with a purpose this afternoon,” Milo said. “I sense the beginning of some renewed momentum.”
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Toni Day, mother of the late Ethan Day, speaks as Mayor Blair Milo listens.
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A motorcyclist encourages walkers.
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