Beach Nov 2016

each charity
SKECHERS WALK
Raises $1.6 million
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n 2009, the first year of the Skechers Pier to
Pier Friendship Walk, 1,700 walkers turned
out and $220,000 was raised. The walk has
built on that success with each succeeding year.
Last year $1.4 million was raised. Last month,
during the 2016 Friendship Walk, over 12,000
walkers packed The Strand, from the Manhattan
Beach pier to the Hermosa Beach Pier, helping to
raise $1.6 million. The walkers were cheered on
by sports and entertainment celebrities, including
former Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda, fitness
trainer Denise Austin, model Camila Alves,
“Dancing with Stars” host Brooke Burke-Charvet,
Jordyn Jones and boxing legend Sugar Ray
Leonard. Proceeds will benefit the Friendship
Foundation, which provides peer mentors for special
needs kids and to South Bay school district
education foundations. For more about the
Friendship Foundation, visit WeGotFriends.com.
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PHOTOS BY BRAD JACOBSON
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1. Rabbi Yossi Mintz of the Friendship Foundation.
2. Denise and Katie Austin and "Best Friends
Whenever's" Ben and Matt Royer.
3. Christie Gibel of “LA Little Women.”
4. Tommy Lasorda and Skechers' president
Michael Greenberg.
5. Over 12,000 walkers came out to support
the Friendship Foundation and local schools.
6. Ian Ziering, of Beverly Hills 90210, and
daughters.
7. Dancer Ava Cota.
8. Over 12,000 supporters marched from the
Manhattan Pier to the Hermosa Pier and back.
9. Boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard and
“Dancing With Stars” host Brooke Burke-
Charvet.
10. "True Blood's" Jacob Hopkins.
11. Michael Greenberg and Sugar Ray
Leonard.
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