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Weiner Walk in the Woods 2025: Saturday, September 27 at 9 am!
Created by Janet Weiner
Janet Weiner
Hello Family and Friends,
Harvey and I are pleased to announce that we will be hosting our annual fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, "Weiner Walk in the Woods," on Saturday, September 27 from 9 am to noon. If your budget permits, please consider making a donation to support our efforts. To donate using a credit card, please click on the DONATE button below, or mail us a check (written to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!) at our home at 2024 Spring Branch Drive, Vienna, VA 22181.
If you are interested in joining us in September, our event is simple and easy! We will be taking a casual hike on 3-4 miles on the beautiful, wooded trails encircling our neighborhood. The hike will start and end at our house. Afterwards, we will enjoy a relaxing breakfast together. If you plan to join us in hiking, please help us order the appropriate amount of food and drink by RSVPing to Janet at cfweinerroast@gmail.com by September 17.
Why is Cystic Fibrosis so important to us? Our two children, Matthew and Melissa, have CF. When they were diagnosed in 1997, the life expectancy was just 18 years old. Our family pledged to change those statistics – and has been fundraising for the past 28 years.
How will the money raised be used? The unwavering commitment of families like ours, leading small fundraisers in their local communities over decades, has enabled the CF Foundation achieve groundbreaking medical discoveries. Because of our relentless search for a cure, there are now more than a dozen new treatments available to patients with CF, including the recent approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Alyfrdek® (vanzacaftor + tezacaftor + deutivacaftor), Trikafta® (elexacaftor + tezacaftor + ivacaftor), Kalydeco® (ivacaftor), Orkambi® (lumacaftor + ivacaftor), Symdeko® (tezacaftor + ivacaftor), Cayston® (aztreonam), and TOBI® (inhaled tobramycin). To learn more about the CF Foundation's work to attack this disease from all angles, including gene editing, please visit https://www.cff.org/research-and-clinical-trials.
Looking to the future: The Weiner “kids” are now 30 and 28 and have benefited tremendously from these medical advancements – they have graduated college, work full-time professional jobs, gotten married, earned advanced degrees, and both have even purchased a home in the area! CF is a devastating disease, and life with CF has definitely not been easy for either of them, but they are living a future we didn’t dare to dream of back in 1997. Our family is deeply grateful for every joyful milestone we celebrate together.
Sadly, cystic fibrosis continues to take young lives. Approximately 10% of CF patients do not respond to the newest therapies. Our family’s mission is to raise money to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with CF the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives. Thanks to events like Weiner Walk in the Woods, and the dedication of supporters like you, we are making a difference. We appreciate your support!
With heartfelt gratitude,
Janet and Harvey Weiner
P.S: For those of you who participated in our Cookies for a Cure cookie decorating classes, keep an eye out for an invite to our next class! After two years of doing Christmas/Holiday cookies, this year we will be doing Valentine's Day cookies! So watch for a class in January or early February with new and exciting designs!
Harvey and I are pleased to announce that we will be hosting our annual fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, "Weiner Walk in the Woods," on Saturday, September 27 from 9 am to noon. If your budget permits, please consider making a donation to support our efforts. To donate using a credit card, please click on the DONATE button below, or mail us a check (written to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!) at our home at 2024 Spring Branch Drive, Vienna, VA 22181.
If you are interested in joining us in September, our event is simple and easy! We will be taking a casual hike on 3-4 miles on the beautiful, wooded trails encircling our neighborhood. The hike will start and end at our house. Afterwards, we will enjoy a relaxing breakfast together. If you plan to join us in hiking, please help us order the appropriate amount of food and drink by RSVPing to Janet at cfweinerroast@gmail.com by September 17.
Why is Cystic Fibrosis so important to us? Our two children, Matthew and Melissa, have CF. When they were diagnosed in 1997, the life expectancy was just 18 years old. Our family pledged to change those statistics – and has been fundraising for the past 28 years.
How will the money raised be used? The unwavering commitment of families like ours, leading small fundraisers in their local communities over decades, has enabled the CF Foundation achieve groundbreaking medical discoveries. Because of our relentless search for a cure, there are now more than a dozen new treatments available to patients with CF, including the recent approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Alyfrdek® (vanzacaftor + tezacaftor + deutivacaftor), Trikafta® (elexacaftor + tezacaftor + ivacaftor), Kalydeco® (ivacaftor), Orkambi® (lumacaftor + ivacaftor), Symdeko® (tezacaftor + ivacaftor), Cayston® (aztreonam), and TOBI® (inhaled tobramycin). To learn more about the CF Foundation's work to attack this disease from all angles, including gene editing, please visit https://www.cff.org/research-and-clinical-trials.
Looking to the future: The Weiner “kids” are now 30 and 28 and have benefited tremendously from these medical advancements – they have graduated college, work full-time professional jobs, gotten married, earned advanced degrees, and both have even purchased a home in the area! CF is a devastating disease, and life with CF has definitely not been easy for either of them, but they are living a future we didn’t dare to dream of back in 1997. Our family is deeply grateful for every joyful milestone we celebrate together.
Sadly, cystic fibrosis continues to take young lives. Approximately 10% of CF patients do not respond to the newest therapies. Our family’s mission is to raise money to cure cystic fibrosis and to provide all people with CF the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives. Thanks to events like Weiner Walk in the Woods, and the dedication of supporters like you, we are making a difference. We appreciate your support!
With heartfelt gratitude,
Janet and Harvey Weiner
P.S: For those of you who participated in our Cookies for a Cure cookie decorating classes, keep an eye out for an invite to our next class! After two years of doing Christmas/Holiday cookies, this year we will be doing Valentine's Day cookies! So watch for a class in January or early February with new and exciting designs!
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