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Twenty-six people and $4,000 later, the first Walk for Cerebral Palsy in Flin Flon is a success. Organizer Michael Kluba put together the walk, held last Saturday, in hopes of raising between $1,000 and $2,000. "We raised more than I thought and basically doubled what I was thinking," says the 17-year-old Kluba. Kluba put the walk together to raise money to a cause close to his heart. His cousin, Ryan Nelson, also 17, has Spastic Cerebral Palsy. The walk started at Hapnot Collegiate and made its way around town and ended back at the school for a lunch. Kluba, who graduates from Hapnot this school year, says he will be leaving for university in the fall, but he hopes to organize a walk there as well. "I'm hoping to go to Saskatoon and I want to do something there and my mom and Ryan's mom are hopefully going to organize the walk here next year," he says. As for his cousin, Kluba says Nelson was in a fair amount of pain that day, but he toughed it out for the walk. "We were all really proud of him for sitting for that long, it was pretty amazing," he says. As for Kluba's family, he says they are proud of him for organizing a walk and raising that much money.
