On Sunday Oct. 16th 2022, West Essex AYLUS volunteered for 2022 Northern New Jersey Heart Walk in South Mountain Recreation Complex at Turtle Back Zoo (9 Cherry Lane West Orange, NJ 07052).
The Heart Walk is the American Heart Association’s premier event for raising funds to save lives from this country’s No. 1 and No. 5 killers – heart disease and stroke.
The Northern New Jersey Heart Walk has always been a terrific way to get moving while socializing with friends, family, and coworkers. But it’s so much more than a walk! Walking in the Heart Walk boosts your heart health AND your mental health and helps thousands of others at the same time.
West Essex branch members arrived at 7am and started with event set up. They set up tables for different sessions, put event signs along the route, unboxed snacks and water bottles and decorated kid zone. Then volunteers were assigned to different areas including VIP parking, clicker, refreshment table, kids zone, start/end cheering, selfie station, water stop, etc. During the event, branch members were able to quickly pick up new tasks whenever the organizer needed help. At the end, our branch members helped on final clean up to close the event.
West Essex members (7am – 12pm, 5 hours each) : Ella Chai, Jasmine Chen (6 hours), Victoria Chen, Sirui Dai, Ava Huynh, Ella Huynh, Joselyn Kwan, Kailey Kwan, Jordan Lee, Kaylen Lee, Chang Ma, Stephanie Yan, Sophia Yan, Ethan Yang, Jeffery Yang, Emma Zhang, Sophia Zheng.
