With the help of the Portland Sea Dogs and their fantastic mascot Slugger, our 8 x 16’ billboard in the ballpark provides an excellent platform to promote our organization and RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT BRAIN ANEURYSMS all season long.
Our premier brain aneurysm awareness event, the KAT-Walk & Karo-5k is coming up on September 21, 2025 at Payson Park in Portland, Maine.
What began as a singular event in 2009 to honor the life of Kimberly Tudor, now includes the Karo-5k in commemoration of Karolina Kurka. Two families struck by tragedy were brought together by the strong desire to honor and remember the lives of their loved ones.
This annual event has now grown to include many more families affected by brain aneurysms throughout Maine and New England, as we use the day to honor survivors and remember loved ones lost to this silent killer that strikes every 18 minutes. View photos from last year’s event…
We are proud of the fact that people have returned year after year, continue to lend their support, and use our event as a way of healing or celebrating someone who has survived.
Over it’s 16 year history, more than 7,000 people have participated and over $270,000 has been raised to provide brain aneurysm awareness, education, funding of research, and general support centered on the Brain Aneurysm community in Maine and northern New England.
This annual walk/run also gives us the occasion to present our Scholarship Awards and gives the Brain Aneurysm community the opportunity to “Share our tears, remember with love, and walk & run to honor”.