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Thousands of dogs will join their owners this Saturday, May 17, for the chance to break a world record and raise money for service dogs.
The Mighty Texas Dog Walk will hold its 10th annual event, with the goal of breaking the Guinness World Record for most dogs walked at once.
The event has won the world record twice, but now they must try to regain their crown from British challengers.
Dogs and their owners will start at the Congress Avenue bridge and make their to the State Capitol building and then along Lady Bird Lake.
The other goal is to raise money for the Texas Hearing and Service Dogs’ Assistance to Military Personnel program, which trains service dogs for those injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event starts at 10:30, and you can register online or call (512) 891-9090.
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BOSTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following op-ed, written by Ellen Parker, was released today by Project Bread - The Walk For Hunger: The Walk for Hunger is for anyone who wants to walk 20 miles in the shoes of the hungry, poor, and dispossessed. The annual Project Bread event, which marks its 40th year on May 4, brings out the best in participants who donate time, sweat, and dollars to make the world a better place. They still believe, as the First Walkers believed back in 1969, that a more generous society, with opportunities for all, can prevail. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, the Walk for Hunger was a magnet for activist idealists. Many came from area universities as well as from Boston’s Paulist Center, the Catholic Church rooted in tenets of social justice. Out of the Paulist Center, Patrick Hughes, a priest with a dream, founded the Walk for Hunger, although it was then called “Feet For Wheat” and located in Quincy, Massachusetts. This year, nearly 45,000 people are expected to flock to the Boston Common for a feet fete dating back to a year when the Vietnam War raged, Richard Nixon ruled, and Three Dog Night reminded us that “One” is the loneliest number. They’re still walking to provide food and resources to the poor. And the Walk remains an enduring link between the community action politics of then — and now. Early Walkers were inspired by a deep commitment to change. Kip Tiernan went on to found the Greater Boston Food Bank and Rosie’s Place, the shelter for homeless women. Larry Kessler is the founding director for the AIDS Action Committee. Marianne Hughes, widow of Patrick Hughes, is executive director of the Interaction Institute for Social Change in Cambridge. “Everything was possible in terms of making a difference,” says Hughes of the first Walks. “Yes, it was youth, the arrogance of youth, but we were optimistic about social change rooted in serious political analysis.” As the war in Iraq grinds on, as more families fall deeper into debt while gas and food prices soar, as the mortgage crisis erodes the dreams of home ownership, Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger continues to fuel a larger purpose. Money raised at the Walk goes to fund 400 soup kitchens, food pantries, and shelters all over Massachusetts. Last year, these caring resources provided 42 million meals to those struggling to make ends meet. The work of Project Bread has also expanded. We work hard to ensure schoolchildren get healthy breakfasts and lunches. In addition, the whole effort to provide free food for the poor has become a more humane and sustaining enterprise. Project Bread has extended its reach into community clinics and summer camps to assure that people do not go hungry and have opportunities to eat where they live, work, learn, and play. We believe hunger is a solvable problem. Social integrity hasn’t fallen off the radar. The Walk feeds hope to those who have nowhere else to turn except for the place where they get a hot meal and warm recognition. Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger — the oldest continual pledge walk in the nation — stands as a unique reminder of the potential inside all of us for change and for optimism. Many walkers are too young to remember back to the day, but they are still inspired by the potential for change — a theme with deep roots in the ’60s that continues to be a clarion call for this year’s foot soldiers against social injustice who will step out on Sunday, May 4, from the Boston Common, in Project Bread’s 40th Walk for Hunger. About Project BreadAs the state’s leading anti-hunger organization, Project Bread is dedicated to alleviating, preventing, and ultimately ending hunger in Massachusetts. Through The Walk for Hunger, the oldest continual pledge walk in the country, Project Bread provides millions of dollars each year in privately donated funds to 400 emergency food programs in 126 communities statewide. Project Bread also advocates systematic solutions that prevent hunger in children and that provide food to families in everyday settings. For more information, visit http://www.projectbread.org.

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American Idol Underground winner Bettina is performing in Phoenix at today’s March of Dimes walk.
She’s been appearing at March of Dimes events on the One Dime at a Time tour, having pledged to give the charity a dime for every download of her second single, Cradle to the Grave. (Her debut single, She Is, peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles sales chart.)
The goal is to make it a platinum single, which would raise $100,000.
“I’m doing that because my goddaughter was born a whole trimester premature, and if it wasn’t for the work the March of Dimes has done, she wouldn’t be the happy, healthy kid she is today,” says Bettina, who has been working in the entertainment business since the ’80s.
“When I was little, I was a really good reader for my age, and I started doing some voiceover work. I was the voice of Rainbow Brite (when she was 6), My Little Pony and the Littles.”
She’s also the voice of McDonald’s I’m Lovin’ It ads.
The success of She Is began with her posting the single online, where American Idol Underground heard it and asked her to enter the contest.
“It was funny,” Bettina says, “because they started contacting to tell me I’d won, and I thought it was spam. So I wasn’t responding. I finally got a phone call from somebody in an office in New York saying ‘You won American Idol Underground.’ “So my dad checked it out, and sure enough, I ended up going down that day to Culver City and shooting some press.”
It was after the single turned up on Ten Perfect Love Songs, a compilation American Idol Underground assembled, that the song began its run on Billboard’s sales chart.

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In his nearly 30-year career, Marvin Winans has seemingly done it all: He’s won six Grammy awards, performed on stages worldwide and been hailed as one of the most important and influential figures in gospel music with his singing group, the Winans.
You would think there were few barriers left for the 50-year-old Marvin Winans to cross, but you are wrong. Amazingly, Sunday will mark Winans’ first-ever solo concert, which gives some of the “American Idol” wannabes more solo stage experience than Winans.
Sure, he has popped up to perform a song here and a song there over the years, either with his contemporaries or on his own. But Sunday at the Fox Theatre will be the first time Winans has ever performed a full-blown solo concert with his name prominently displayed at the top of a marquee.
“I think I may be a little nervous,” says Winans, seated behind his desk inside his office at Perfecting Church on Detroit’s east side earlier this week. “Going on stage without my brothers being behind me is a little scary.”
His brothers are, of course, members of legendary gospel act the Winans, comprised of Marvin, twin brother Carvin, Ronald and Michael Winans. But after Ronald Winans died in 2005, due to heart complications following a heart attack eight years prior, Marvin Winans knew his group would never be the same, and he set about recording his first solo album, “Alone But Not Alone.”
The album comprises some songs that Winans had sitting around for more than a decade, and some that are brand new.
“I had written so many songs, I told (Ron) if the name wasn’t going to be ‘Alone But Not Alone,’ it would be ‘Songs That No One Else Would Sing But Me.’”
“Alone But Not Alone” — which includes “Joy,” which was recorded with Ronald before his death — was released in September and received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album (it lost to native Detroiter Fred Hammond’s “Free to Worship”).

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