Welcome to Day 2 of the Blogging for Blood Cancer event! Today’s prize is $30 gift certificate to The Blue Top Hat plus a cookie card and cookies from the Greeting Cookie. Yesterday’s winner was commenter #70 Belinda A. who knew that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society spent $66.5 million last year in support of more than 400 researchers and projects in 15 countries on five continents. Thank you to all those who participated and good luck today!

To qualify to win, leave a comment with an answer to the question after reading the post.

What does 2000 walkers, twinkling balloons and a worthy cause look like? It looks like one of the many Light The Night Walks that occur across the United States and Canada each fall!

Light The Night walks are The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) annual event to raise funds for cures. It’s the nation’s night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of patients and their families.

The family-friendly evenings are inspirational and take place in over 150 cities nationwide. Funds raised through Light The Night support the work of hundreds of the world’s best and brightest researchers in their search for better therapies and cures for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Friends of Heroes, formerly Friends of Allie, has participated in Light The Night for the past 4 walks and first came together in support and memory of Allie Scott, an eight month old baby who battled leukemia in 2004. Our group of honored heroes grew as we met more people affected by blood cancers – often a friend or family member, young and old alike.

As a group of moms, dads, friends and family, FOH wants to make a difference for families stricken with blood cancers and continues to raise awareness and funds for patient services and research for a CURE. Each year we rally together to raise at least $100,000 to have a pediatric cancer research grant, bestowed by LLS, named in honor of our team, including our affiliates and our heroes.

You’re invited to help make a difference!!! A two mile walk can help save a life! Join or start a Light The Night team today and be part of an amazing effort to find cures for blood cancers.

For more information, visit www.lightthenight.org or our 2006 Light The Night Team Tidbits.

ENTER TO WIN TODAY’S PRIZE:

For a chance to win, leave a comment with the city and date of the Light The Night walk nearest to you by MIDNIGHT PST today.

[Psst: You will find the answer at the bottom of this post or on this page. Wink, wink.]

You’ll also be entered for our grand prize to be drawn Monday for a $900 Timberland and Lacoste product assortment, courtesy of Samsonite. (Comments are moderated.) Make sure to stop back all week for more information and even more chances to win!

Click more to view Light The Night walksites!

2008 Walksites & Dates

State City Location Date
Alabama Florence Wilson Park 09/27/08
Alabama Hoover Hoover Met/Regions Park 09/11/08
Alabama Huntsville Jones Valley 09/25/08
Alabama Montgomery The Union Station Train Shed 09/18/08
Alaska Anchorage Park Strip 09/05/08
Alaska Wasilla Iditipark 09/05/08
Arizona Glendale Sahuaro Ranch Park 11/01/08
Arizona Tempe Tempe Town Lake Beach 10/18/08
Arizona Tucson Reid Park 09/13/08
California Anaheim Angel Stadium 09/20/08
California Bakersfield CSU Bakersfield – Runner’s Park 09/27/08
California Fresno CSU Fresno- Maple Mall 10/18/08
California Los Angeles UCLA 09/14/08
California Palo Alto Palo Alto High School 10/04/08
California Riverside California Baptist University 10/04/08
California Sacramento California State Capitol 09/27/08
California San Diego Qualcomm Stadium 10/24/08
California San Francisco Downtown San Francisco 10/02/08
California San Jose Plaza de Cesar Chavez 10/25/08
California Santa Clarita Bridgeport Park 10/19/08
California Santa Rosa Court House Square 09/27/08
California South San Francisco Oyster Point Marina 10/16/08
California Stockton University of the Pacific 09/20/08
California Visalia Visalia 10/03/08
California Walnut Creek Civic Park 10/11/08
California Woodland Hills Warner Park 10/12/08
Canada Calgary Eau Claire Festival Market 09/27/08
Canada Edmonton Rundle Park 09/19/08
Canada Montreal Parc Jean Drapeau 09/27/08
Canada Surrey Cloverddale Millenium Ampitheatre 10/04/08
Canada Toronto Queens Park 10/02/08
Canada Vancouver Ceperly Park in Stanley Park 09/27/08
Canada Victoria University of Victoria 10/18/08
Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado 09/27/08
Colorado Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum 09/18/08
Colorado Denver Washington Park 09/25/08
Colorado Longmont Roosevelt Park 09/12/08
Connecticut Danbury Western Connecticut State 09/27/08
Connecticut Hartford TBD 09/25/08
Connecticut New Haven Lighthouse Point 10/25/08
Connecticut Norwalk Calf Pasture Beach 10/02/08
Connecticut Waterford Harkness Memorial Park 09/24/08
DC Washington Freedom Plaza 10/18/08
Delaware Rehoboth Beach Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk 10/11/08
Delaware Wilmington A.I. duPont Hospital for Children 10/04/08
Florida Boca Raton Mizner Park 10/24/08
Florida Cocoa Riverfront Park 10/03/08
Florida Debary Gemini Springs Park 10/18/08
Florida Fort Lauderdale Downtown Fort Lauderdale 10/25/08
Florida Gainsville Ben Hill Griffin Stadium 10/16/08
Florida Jacksonville Riverplace Tower – Downtown 09/25/08
Florida Lakeland Munn Park 10/04/08
Florida Miami 301 N. Biscayne Blvd., Miami 09/20/08
Florida Miramar Memorial Miramar Hospital 10/11/08
Florida Naples Vineyards Community Park 10/23/08
Florida Ocala Tuscawilla Park 10/23/08
Florida Orlando Lake Eola 09/27/08
Florida Pensacola University of West Florida 10/09/08
Florida Sarasota Ken Thompson Park 10/25/08
Florida St. Petersburg Albert Whitted Park 10/04/08
Florida Suart Flagler Park 10/03/08
Florida Tallahassee FSU Campus 10/30/08
Florida Tampa Legends Field 10/18/08
Florida West Palm Beach Meyer Amphitheater 10/17/08
Georgia Albany Parks at Chehaw 09/26/08
Georgia Athens The Classic Center, Foundry Street Annex 10/03/08
Georgia Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park 10/11/08
Georgia Augusta The Augusta Common at the Riverwalk 10/04/08
Georgia Savannah Forsyth Park 10/03/08
Hawaii Kapolei Hawaiian Waters Adventure Park 10/04/08
Idaho Boise Ann Morrison Park 10/02/08
Illinois Bloomington Miller Park 09/27/08
Illinois Chicago Grant Park 09/13/08
Illinois Glenview Gallery Park 10/12/08
Illinois Lisle Lisle Community Park 09/06/08
Illinois Peoria Peoria Riverfront 10/05/08
Illinois Rockford Davis Park 09/18/08
Indiana Crown Point Lake County Fair Grounds 09/21/08
Indiana Fort Wayne Lutheran Hospital Campus 09/28/08
Indiana Indianapolis Victory Field 10/11/08
Indiana Lafayette Riehle Plaza 09/25/08
Indiana Nortre Dame Saint Mary’s College 10/02/08
Indiana Winona Lake Rodeheaver Auditorium 09/18/08
Iowa Coralville Coralville, IA 09/20/08
Iowa Davenport Davenport 10/04/08
Iowa West Des Moines West Glen 10/11/08
Kanasas Lawrence South Park 09/27/08
Kanasas Overland Park Corporate Woods 09/12/08
Kanasas Topeka Washburn University 10/18/08
Kanasas Wichita Exploration Place 09/20/08
Kentucky Lexington Courthouse Plaza 09/13/08
Kentucky Louisville Waterfront Park 10/04/08
Louisiana Baton Rouge Galvez Plaza 10/05/08
Louisiana Metairie Zephyr Stadium 11/15/08
Maryland Annapolis Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium 09/28/08
Maryland Baltimore Towson University 11/01/08
Maryland Frederick Baker Park 10/18/08
Maryland Grand Rapids YMCA Parking Lot – Downtown Grand Rapids 10/11/08
Maryland Hagerstown Fairgrounds Park 10/18/08
Maryland Harford County Cal Ripken Sr.’s Yard 10/25/08
Maryland Howard County Columbia Lakefront Plaza 10/04/08
Maryland Leonardtown Government Center 10/11/08
Maryland Ocean City Ocean City Inlet 10/25/08
Maryland Rockville Rockville Town Center 10/11/08
Maryland Royal Oak Memorial Park – Royal Oak 10/03/08
Maryland York York Beach Ball Field 10/04/08
Massachusetts Boston The Boston Common 10/02/08
Massachusetts Florence Look Memorial Park 09/14/08
Massachusetts Nashua Greeley Park 09/27/08
Massachusetts Wakefield Lake Quannapowitt 09/21/08
Massachusetts Worcester Assumption College 10/19/08
Michigan Ann Arbor Huron High School/ Gallup Park 09/20/08
Michigan Kalamazoo Bronson Park Downtown 09/20/08
Michigan Wyandotte Bishop Park 09/19/08
Minnesota St. Paul Lake Phalen Regional Park 10/04/08
Missiouri Springfield Bass Pro Shop 10/04/08
Missiouri St. Joseph Hyde Park 09/27/08
Missiouri St. Louis Forest Park 09/12/08
Missiouri St. Peters St. Peters City Centre Park 09/12/08
Mississippi Pearl Trustmark Park 09/25/08
Nebraska Lincoln Holmes Lake 09/11/08
Nebraska Omaha Heartland of America Park 09/18/08
Nevada Las Vegas Town Square Las Vegas 10/18/08
Nevada Reno Wingfield Park 09/13/08
New Jersey Bloomfield/ Montclair Brookdale Park 10/04/08
New Jersey Camden Campbelle’s Field: Home of Riversharks 10/11/08
New Jersey Hoboken Pier A 09/27/08
New Jersey Madison Giralda Farms 09/27/08
New Jersey Ocean Grove Ocean Grove Youth Temple 10/04/08
New Jersey Somerset Colonial Park 10/04/08
New Jersey Succasunna Horseshoe Lake 10/04/08
New Jersey Trenton Waterfront Park; Home of Trenton Thunder 09/27/08
New Jersey Westfield Downtown Westfield 09/27/08
New Jersey Wildwood Wildwoods Convention Center 09/13/08
New Mexico Albuquerque Harry E. Kinney Civic Plaza 09/20/08
New York Albany The Crossing, Colonie 09/26/08
New York Bear Mountain Bear Mountain State Park 09/27/08
New York Binghamton NYSEG Stadium 09/27/08
New York Buffalo Delaware Park 10/03/08
New York Central Islip Citibank Park 10/04/08
New York East Meadow Eisenhower Park 09/25/08
New York Gouverneur Gouverneur High School Rec Center 09/20/08
New York New York Brooklyn Bridge 10/16/08
New York Nyack Nyack Memorial Park 10/04/08
New York Poughkeepsie McCann Center – Marist College 10/18/08
New York Queens Queens 10/18/08
New York Riverhead Atlantis Aquarium 09/18/08
New York Rochester Monroe Community College 09/26/08
New York Staten Island Midland Beach Promenade 10/04/08
New York Syracuse Clinton Square 09/17/08
New York White Plains Rye Playland 10/03/08
North Carolina Asheville McCormick Field 10/16/08
North Carolina Charlotte Wachovia Atrium & Plaza 09/27/08
North Carolina Durham Durham 09/18/08
North Carolina Greensboro Country Park 10/11/08
North Carolina Raleigh Raleigh 09/13/08
North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington 09/25/08
Ohio Akron Lock 3 09/25/08
Ohio Cincinnati Sawyer Point 09/18/08
Ohio Cleveland Jacobs Field 09/27/08
Ohio Columbus Fred Beekman Park – OSU 10/18/08
Ohio Dayton Fraze Pavilion 09/25/08
Ohio Mason Mason Community Center 10/02/08
Ohio Toldeo Fifth Third Field 09/20/08
Ohio Zanesville Ohio University Zanesville 09/25/08
Oklahoma Jenks RiverWalk Crossing 09/13/08
Oklahoma Oklahoma City The Center for Healthy Living 09/20/08
Oregon Eugene Eugene Hilton & Conference 10/04/08
Oregon Portland World Trade Center Plaza 10/03/08
Pennsylvania Bethlehem Northampton Community 10/04/08
Pennsylvania Blue Bell Montgomery County Community College 09/20/08
Pennsylvania Chesterbrook Wilson Farm Park 10/04/08
Pennsylvania Danville Geisinger Medical Center 10/02/08
Pennsylvania Erie Jerry Uht Park 09/23/08
Pennsylvania Harrisburg City Island 09/18/08
Pennsylvania Johnstown UPJ Campus 10/04/08
Pennsylvania Lancaster Greenfield Corporate Center 09/10/08
Pennsylvania Newtown Bucks County Community College 09/27/08
Pennsylvania Philadelphia FDR Park 10/18/08
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Heinz Field, North Shore 10/02/08
Pennsylvania Scranton Nay Aug Park 09/27/08
Pennsylvania Uniontown Uniontown Area High School 09/27/08
Pennsylvania Wyomissing Gring’s Mill Recreation Area 10/18/08
Pennsylvania York Agricultural & Industrial Museum 09/24/08
Rhode Island Lincoln Chet Nichols Field 10/18/08
Rhode Island Newport Salve Regina University 10/04/08
Rhode Island Providence Blackstone Park 09/27/08
South Carolina Charleston Charleston Maritime Center 10/16/08
South Carolina Columbia Columbia International University 09/25/08
South Carolina Greenville Furman University 10/02/08
South Carolina Myrtle Beach Grand Park 10/30/08
South Carolina Rock Hill Cherry Park 10/30/08
Tennessee Chattanooga Coolidge Park 09/18/08
Tennessee Knoxville Volunteer Landing 10/02/08
Tennessee Memphis Shelby Farms 09/25/08
Tennessee Nashville TBA 10/16/08
Texas Austin Dell Children’s Medical Center 10/18/08
Texas Dallas Southern Methodist University 10/19/08
Texas El Paso Ascarate Park 10/11/08
Texas Fort Worth Sundance Square 10/12/08
Texas Frisco Dr. Pepper Ballpark 11/01/08
Texas Houston Discovery Green Park 10/11/08
Texas San Antonio HemisFair Park 10/25/08
Texas The Woodlands Market Street 10/26/08
Texas Tyler Rose Rudman Trail 10/11/08
Texas Wichita Falls River Bend Nature Center 10/18/08
Vermont Burlington ECHO at Leahy Center for Lake Champlain 09/12/08
Virginia Charlottesville Lee Park 10/16/08
Virginia Fredericksburg Hurkamp Park 10/04/08
Virginia Leesburg Ida Lee Park 10/11/08
Virginia Manassas The Harris Pavillion 10/04/08
Virginia Newport News City Center at Oyster Point 10/11/08
Virginia Reston Reston Town Center 10/04/08
Virginia Richmond Browns Island 10/02/08
Virginia Roanoke Elmwood Park 10/18/08
Virginia Virginia Beach 31st. Street Park 10/25/08
Washington Olympia Marathon Park 09/27/08
Washington Seatttle Green Lake 09/20/08
Washington Tacoma Ruston Way 09/27/08
Washington Tulalip Tulalip Amphitheater 09/20/08
West Virginia Morgantown WVU Coliseum 09/20/08
Wisonsin Chippewa Falls Irvine Park Zoo 09/18/08
Wisonsin Green Bay Lambeau Field 10/03/08
Wisonsin Madison Olin Park 09/25/08
Wisonsin Milwaukee O’Donnell Park 09/11/08