The Cody Medical Foundation hosted its first annual walk for mental health Saturday, October 12, 2013, at Beck Lake reservoirs in Cody. A total of just under eighty participants—plus a good showing of dogs at the pet-friendly event—walked or jogged between two and six miles to help raise awareness of mental health issues.
Staffers from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West were honored to be among the participants, and fielded a team of walkers who came from various departments across the Center. Proceeds from the Beck Lake Challenge benefit the Heart Mountain Volunteer Clinic to purchase medications for those with mental illness who cannot pay.
Pictured here is the Center of the West team, which included eleven people and four enthusiastic canines. Back row: Linda Clark (from the Center’s Papers of William F. Cody), Jaclyn Rubino (Whitney Western Art Museum), Lloyd Johnson (Information Technology), Ann Marie Donoghue (Museum Services), Emily Wood (Whitney Western Art Museum), Desirée Pettet (Graphics), Bonnie Smith (Draper Natural History Museum). Front row: Nancy McClure (Public Relations), Melissa Hill (Draper Natural History Museum), and Ashley Hlebinsky (Cody Firearms Museum). Not pictured: Rebecca Taggart (Development).
Center staffers enjoy taking an active part in the community in which they live, and in the past several years have also participated in Habitat for Humanity builds and the Wyoming Department of Transportation’s Adopt-a-Highway program.
The Center of the West invites the local and regional community to a free, annual Holiday Open House the first Saturday in December. That celebration of the holiday season takes place Saturday, December 7 this year from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Click these links for more information about the Cody Medical Foundation, and about the Heart Mountain Volunteer Clinic.
