 Heart Walk April the 6th starting at 8 a.m. at the Colonial Life Arena. Heart Walk is our community activation event for the Midlands. We're really able to engage with the community, our companies, survivors, and families to really share the messaging of the Heart Association and to help people become more aware of the importance of heart health. So we know that one in three people are going to be diagnosed with heart disease and that's just not a number that we're okay with. Currently in the Midlands we have enough people to fill Williams Brice Stadium just over four times who have high blood pressure which is just over 300,000 people and why that's important to us is because that's a controllable contributor to overall bad heart health and so we know that if we can help educate people then that's going to help us change the footprint here in the Midlands of what heart health looks like. We have just over 60 companies that are participating in our Heart Walk event this year and then the community obviously is always welcoming so we have about five to six thousand people that come to our event each year and why that is also important to us is because that's five thousand people that we can get our messaging out. We can really help them take an active participation in their overall heart health which is so important to us. We don't exist without our volunteers helping us to get that messaging out but also our survivors and those families who are there to help people understand that you can take that active participation because 80 percent of heart health, our heart disease is preventable and so that's a number that we really want to continue to help people understand that they can take that part in making that lifestyle change. So it's all excitement it's really a day of celebration as I mentioned we have our survivors we have our families who are there we get to celebrate those who are still hanging out with us and really continuing to walk strong and remember those who might not be there with us and then we really have the community to be able to rally around those families and around this idea of heart health as we walk downtown and you bump shoulders with somebody that you might not know and have that conversation to really build that sense of community with each other because we know that people sometimes think that they're alone in this and hopefully the heart walk is a way that they can see that that's not the truth. When they get to see again these 5000 people walking down this walk and they say hey they've been touched by this too it helps to kind of bring that family unit together. So we like to get things kicked off early so our expo area opens at 8 a.m and all that means is we have several sponsors and supporters that are activating some of our heart messaging and so people get to go around and have their blood pressure taken, learn about healthy eating, the idea of getting out and moving more and being more active in their life and then the walk takes place just around 9 a.m where we leave and it's a three and a half mile or one mile walk downtown where you get to walk across the Jervay and Blossom Street Bridge and really have a beautiful setting in the background but it's really a really great time for our community to come together even though it's a little early in the morning. MidlandsHeartWalk.org is the best place to go to sign up your team to get more information. We have our office number there but we have a great team that's ready to answer any questions and then for the day of the event we invite people to just come and join us. It's a ton of fun, it's a great event and we really just encourage everybody to bring family and friends to really get to experience what the event's all about.