Best Buddies – Fiesta For Finding Friends

March 5, 2014
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On Monday March 10, 2014 Best Buddies Jacksonville invites local community leaders, community supporters, sponsors, Best Buddies participants and board members to gather at Cinco De Mayo’s (11892 Atlantic Blvd Jacksonville, FL 32224) from 6-8pm to enjoy an evening celebrating friendship and to learn more about the 2014 Friendship Walk. Come for an opportunity to win prizes, sign-up your walk teams, and enjoy listening to how Best Buddies is making a difference in the lives of people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is a free and family-friendly event with a taco buffet.

The Best Buddies Friendship Walk will be held at the Jacksonville Landing on Saturday May 3, 2014. The walk promotes an atmosphere for new friendships, promising opportunities, and most of all, inclusion for all people.

This is where you can make a difference! You can make new friends, create opportunity, and promote community inclusion simply by participating in this year’s Friendship Walk. Walk for inclusion. Walk for friendship. Walk for a better community.

For more information and to RSVP to the Walk Kick-Off at Cinco De Mayo’s on March 10, 2014 please contact Erika Hatch, Best Buddies Area Director at ErikaHatch@BestBuddies.org or 904-296-0510 (x 404). Follow us on Twitter @BestBuddiesJax or Instagram @BestBuddiesJax. dership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Locally nearly 2,000 students participate in our programs from 26 schools across Duval, Nassau, Clay, St. Johns, Leon, and Flagler counties.

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