JUST-a-BREAK and North Ogden City will celebrate our 7th Annual CHALK IT UP... Chalk Art Festival & 5Kolor Run!
JUST-a-BREAK and North Ogden City sponsored our 4th annual Chalk It Up Chalk Art Festival and 5Kolor Run on August 25th & 26th 2023. There will be live entertainment, food trucks, local vendors, raffles, and FUN for all those who attend and participate! Click for more informatin and register for the event.
Congrats to our founder, Greg Thorpe, for being honored as the Pilot Pen G2 Overachiever of 2018 for his work with JUST A BREAK From Cancer.
Also, HUGE thanks to Pilot Pen and Priyanka Chopra for putting this grant program together and highlighting those making a difference. #PowerToThePen #DoYouG2
JUST-a-BREAK would like to give a shout-out and thank-you to Northern Ice (NICE), one of our supporters of both JUST-A-Break and the North Ogden City Chalk-It-Up. Whether a booth sponsor, providing cool treats for our Chalk-It-Up volunteers, or providing print services, owner David Gordon has been there with his time and resources to help our events. David also owns Quality Quick Print which has provided significant print contributions...
Petersen, Inc. of Ogden, Utah presented JUST-a-BREAK with a $3,000 dollar check for their continuing support at last week's 3rd Annual “Cruisin’ for a Cause”. Pictured is Greg Thorpe, the founder of JUST-a-BREAK, along with Petersen's CEO Mark Jenkins and their CCO and VP of Operations Bryan Crowell and Dean Vernon. JUST-a-BREAK can't thank them enough for their support. Their donation will go a long way to help bless local cancer patients to get just a break.
>Greg Thorpe, a local cancer support survivor whose wife Jennifer passed away in 2015, was one of the speakers at the McKay-Dee Hospital event. Jennifer battled advanced stage colon cancer, but she fought a hard fight and Greg talked about the lessons they learned. "Everyone's cancer story is so unique," he says. "Cancer helped us be more authentic and less concerned about
perfection. We learned to find joy in the ordinary." Greg shared a story about the Thanksgiving after his wife's diagnosis where she surprised her family by saying she was grateful for cancer. She said it had brought her closer to her loved ones and to God / a higher power. As a cancer support survivor, Greg says, "There is life after cancer and it's one that is more informed, more passionate, and more compassionate."
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