Events

Women TIES and our Equality Division is happy to be a media sponsor for this event:

When the Clergy Went Underground - A Dramatic Reading Written by Carol Kammen

The dramatic reading is based on a memoir of Reverend David Evans, the founder of the Upstate
New York Clergy Consultation Service (CCS) in the 1960s for those who wanted a safe abortion in pre-Roe America.

Reverend Richard Gilbert, minister at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca and a member of the Clergy Consultation Service at that time, will
discuss his role.

Readers are David Dietrich, Emme Edmunds, Linda Hoffmann, Michael Hoffmann, and Sue Perlgut.

The event is free and sponsored by EAS, CNY NOW and Syracuse NAACP.

Parking is behind the church or at the OnCenter parking lot 3 blocks away.

Carol Kammen is a long-time local historian and editorial writer for the American Association for State and Local History journal History News. She turned to fiction to unveil the histories of women who crossed the country in 1842, the first company of families to move across the land from Missouri to the Oregon Territory.

She taught local history and lectured about its importance to individuals and to their communities. She has written a dozen dramas about her home in Ithaca and has served as the Tompkins County Historian for two decades.

Women TIES and the Women's Athletic Network love to media sponsor community events. This one is an indoor spinning event, Pedaling 4 Paige. It is a great way to put your physical, mental, and emotional energy towards something much bigger: Raising funds to fight pediatric cancer in Central New York.

Pedaling 4 Paige will have a virtual event option and live event option. There will only be 28 bikes available for each live session at Elevate Fitness in Dewitt. Register online to spin for 1 hour in honor of children and families who have been touched by a diagnosis of pediatric cancer and other blood disorders. Participants can register for one or up to all three 1 hour sessions led by a cycling instructor.

Proceeds from the event benefit children and their families at the Dr. William J. Waters Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, Syracuse, New York.

Sign up at https://runsignup.com/Race/NY/Syracuse/Pedaling4Paige
or
https://pbrun.org/events/pedaling/

In 1993, Paige Yeomans Arnold was a seemingly healthy 6-year-old first grader at Palmer Elementary School in Baldwinsville, NY, when she was diagnosed with leukemia. Paige was then treated at what is now the Dr. William J. Waters Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital in Syracuse, NY. Paige ultimately underwent a bone marrow transplant to cure her leukemia at Boston Children's Hospital in 1994. Sadly, complications from the transplant led to her death in August of that year.

In the Spring of 1997, Paige's parents were approached by a group of teachers at Palmer Elementary who wished to honor Paige in what would have been her last year at the school. In short order, it was decided that a walk\run event would be organized. All proceeds were slated to benefit a college scholarship fund and the Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders in Paige's memory. The butterfly was selected as a symbol of the event because she was so fond of them and because they typified her: beautiful and gentle but strong beyond imagining.

After hosting the event at Palmer Elementary from 1997 to 2007, Paige's Butterfly Run came to downtown Syracuse in 2008 with the Taste of Syracuse Festival.

Since its inception in 1997, Paige's Butterfly Run has raised over $5,000,000 to support cancer research and patient programs at the William J. Waters Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital.

Who wants to run with Tracy Chamberlain Higginbotham to support pediatric cancer? Raise your hand and register for our team.

EVENT:

Held in conjunction with the Taste of Syracuse, Paige's Butterfly Run, brought to you this year by Alan Byer Volvo, brings runners and walkers from across Central New York to downtown Syracuse each year to participate in one of the region's premier 5K races. Our goal is to host a stellar community event while raising the critical dollars necessary to fund local pediatric cancer research and patient programs at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital.

This year, Paige's Butterfly Run will celebrate its 29th event on Saturday, June 7, 2025, in downtown Syracuse. This family-friendly event includes:

3K fitness run/walk
5K Centipede Team Division
Caterpillar crawl for kids under 5 years old

Participants who register for the live event by May 1st will receive a t-shirt.

Proceeds from the event benefit the Dr. William J. Waters Center for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital, Syracuse, New York.

Tracy is trying every sport once, and sometimes races more than once! This year she is earmarking her legs and fundraising towards Paige's Butterfly Run to help the local Goliasano Children's Center fight pediatric cancer.

Life isn't worth living, if you aren't giving!