{"id":409042,"date":"2026-09-24T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T07:22:29","slug":"walk-to-end-alzheimers-pinellas-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409042\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk To End Alzheimer\u2019s Pinellas County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents are invited to join the Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s Pinellas County on Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, held at Poynter Park, 1000 3rd Street in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>You can register today by going to\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alz.org\/PinellasCountyWalk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alz.org\/PinellasCountyWalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today more than 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer\u2019s and over 580,000 people in Florida are living with the disease. An estimated 11 million family members and friends provide unpaid care for those affected by Alzheimer\u2019s and other dementias nationwide and more than 870,000 unpaid caregivers are Florida residents.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Walk Day, registration begins at 8:00 a.m., followed by the flower ceremony at 8:45 a.m., and the Walk immediately follows. Those affected by Alzheimer\u2019s are honored by participants with the poignant Promise Garden ceremony \u2014 a mission-focused experience that signifies our solidarity in the fight against the disease. During the ceremony,\u00a0walkers will carry flowers of various colors, each color representing their personal connection to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this year\u2019s Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s Pinellas County, contact Andrea Helme at <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/events\/walk-to-end-alzheimers-pinellas-county\/mailto:alhelme@alz.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alhelme@alz.org<\/a> or (727) 270-9917 x8762.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents are invited to join the Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s Pinellas County on Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-409042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}