Kidney foundation walk/run awareness event is Sunday at Canfield Fairgrounds

September 23, 2016 at 8:42p.m.

CANFIELD — The Eastern Regional Kidney Foundation, which serves Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties, will host its 6th annual Kidney Disease Awareness 5K Run/Walk & Renal Family Picnic on Sunday at the Canfield Fairgrounds.

The 5K run/walk begins at 11 a.m. Registration begins at 9 a.m. All donation money is disbursed via grants to aid in renal support-related expenses.

A free picnic will take place after the walk for walkers, patients and families in the fairgrounds Commercial Building. The picnic honors and remembers dialysis patients and kidney-transplant recipients and their families.