Young Harris College invites you to join its faculty, staff, students, and neighbors within the community in its seventeenth CROP Walk. On Saturday, October 20, during Parents' Weekend, we will congregate near the tennis courts on the YHC campus. The walk will start promptly at 2:00 p.m., so please allow time to arrive and sign in.

"We walk because they walk" is the theme of this year's CROP Walk. We who have so much walk by choice in support of so many others around the world because they walk out of necessity. Our walk for raising funds helps alleviate the burdens of those who must walk miles and miles daily in search of food, water, firewood, supplies, and/or education. In the past sixteen years, the YHC CROP Walk has raised just over $112,000. Since 25% of all monies raised are returned to the local area, some $28,000 has helped fight hunger in the North Georgia mountain community. Our walk is symbolic and real.

If you, your church, your civic group, or your neighborhood would like to join the CROP Walk, please contact coordinator Meg Gring Whitley (706-379-5126) for materials. For more information concerning CWS, access http://www.churchworldservice.org. All walkers are insured, and anyone under the age of eighteen must have a sponsor sheet signed by a parent.

If you would like to make a contribution to this event, you may send a check. Make it out to "CWS/CROP" and send it to: Dr. Meg Gring Whitley, P.O. Box 267, Young Harris, GA 30582.

We walk because they walk. We hope you will join us. As CWS says, "It will be good for your hearts and soles."

** In case of rain, bring your umbrellas!