 What's happening today is a really big deal. We're trying to get the word out. It's the run for independence symbolic of what we are and what we're all about. We're all about ability and celebrating that ability and in this inclusive environment. We're having our second annual run. It's an awareness run fundraiser. Hopefully in the future it'll be our signature event. We're having a one-mile, a 5k and a 10k race which celebrates ability and inclusivity for people with disabilities. Independence Association's mission is to provide services to adults and children who live in their chosen community and it's an inclusive environment and my daughter has been receiving services for about 15 years. We're a nonprofit agency that's about going on 50 years old and we work with individuals, children and adults that have intellectual and cognitive disabilities, anything ranging from mental retardation, autism, cerebral policy and we provide services to probably about 400 individuals in the greater Brunswick Bath, Toppett Mary. The profile of the runners today include people with disabilities and your families with children. I just was extremely surprised to see that my daughter's whole family came to support her and participate in this race and it's just it's celebrating all these folks as well as the serious runners because it's a great course. I'm running because it's a great cause and it gets me out here to get more running in. We have a myriad of people running in the race from people that are serious runners to people that like to walk and the race includes people with disabilities, without disabilities and the race is set up so that the times that are starting are split times so that people with disabilities can actually start and finish with people that have abilities so it feels more like an inclusive event. To put together this race was a huge undertaking. We hired a new person to be the race director, marketing person, to work with the the Family Advisory Council as well as a whole bunch of volunteers. It takes a lot of support to do an event like this. We have about 75 volunteers today and it's taken us no less than six months to put the event on when we really should have been planning on it about a year ago. And Brunswick is very good in that regard. They have always supported us and between the people that work in our agency, our parents, families and the town, we've been able to get enough volunteers and raise almost $10,000 to underwrite the event. It's been heartwarming to see the businesses and in this community come out and support us with only two months of planning. You know, usually they have to put this in the budget a year ahead and it's just been overwhelming the kind of support, in-kind contributions as well as sponsorship. It's very important for us to to look for alternative funding sources because as we're all reading in the news, there are cuts across the board and we are not excluded from this and and so therefore to make up these these cuts we have to find alternative funding sources and this race is just one of those attempts at finding more revenue. We're a Medicaid-funded facility meaning we can't raise or lower the prices. We receive revenue based on whatever the state deans is affordable. Just to give you an idea, in July of 2006 we were paid approximately $25 an hour to do services. In July of 2013 those same services were being reimbursed at $21 an hour and that's not including or adjusting for inflation. That's real real dollars. Our agency is really really big on. We focus on inclusivity and I personally believe that there's nobody that is fully abled, that we're all interdependent upon each other and that when we have a race like this it shows that the community comes together to support people with disabilities, people without disabilities, and that we can come together as a community. That's the number one mission of this race.