$5K Donation Pits Port Resident as Top Fundraiser for Walkathon
Rachael Anne Pipp, a Port Washington resident diagnosed with mitochondrial disease at age 16, puts a lot of energy into raising funds for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation’s. Learn how you can help, too.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect a correction. A fundraiser at Downtown Pizza will be held Wednesday, not Thursday. There's no stopping Rachael Anne Pipp, a Port Washington resident diagnosed with mitochondrial disease at age 16, who — in the last three months — has raised another $5,000 towards the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation’s. Pipp is the top fundraiser the Energy for Life Walkathon in Milwaukee on Saturday, and has gone door-to-door in Port promoting the event and collecting donations. "It was hard, tiring (but) I liked going door-to-door and just talking about it," Pipp said. The additional fundraising brings her total donations to UMDF to $8,000. "It wasn't easy — she pushed herself to do it," said …
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7:23 am on Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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