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This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Camira (left) and Aaralyn Rose at the FARE Walk at Veterans Park on Oct. 23.
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Maxine Walls plays with a streamer at the FARE Walk at Veterans Park.
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The Oct. 23 FARE Walk at Veterans Park included a costume contest.
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Aaralyn Rose sits at the arts and crafts table at the FARE Walk at Veterans Park. This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Erica Techo
This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Erica Techo
This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Erica Techo
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Erica Techo
This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Erica Techo
This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Erica Techo
This year's FARE Walk for Food Allergy raised funds and awareness for food allergies. It also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to offer non-food treats on Halloween, thereby including children with food allergies in the fun.
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Babe Ruff with the Birmingham Barons attended the FARE Walk at Veterans Park on Oct. 23.
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Maegan Walker, Emily Writer, Trey CaJacob, Anthony Pallotta and Kate Ray represent Alabama Allergy and Asthma Center at the FARE Walk on Oct. 23.
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Signs with allergy facts lined the path of the FARE Walk at Veterans Park on Oct. 23.
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Attendees "trick or treat" at tables at the FARE Walk. The booths included food allergy-friendly treats such as sunflower butter and peanut-free cookies.
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Ray Hellings with his daughters Bella (6) and Ava (3) at the FARE Walk at Veterans Park.
Children with food allergies cannot always participate in traditional Halloween activities due to the possibility of coming in contact with allergens. FARE, which stands for Food Allergy Research and Education, hosts walks every year to provide food allergy-friendly activities and promote awareness of allergies.
About 50 people attended this year's Oct. 23 walk at Veterans Park, which also included arts and crafts, a costume contest and food allergy-friendly trick or treating. The annual event helps raise awareness and fundraise for FARE.
This year's event also promoted the Teal Pumpkin Project, which encourages individuals to place teal pumpkins out on Halloween, indicating they have non-food treats for trick-or-treaters and are food-allergy friendly. The Teal Pumpkin Project launched in 2015.
National sponsors of this year's FARE Walk included Enjoy Life, SunButter, Skeeter Nut Free, Nice N Clean and Don’t Go Nuts. Sponsors provided snack samples, including sunflower butter and peanut-free cookies, and signs around the event asked attendees to take samples home before eating them so that the event stayed food allergy-friendly. Local sponsors also provided non-food treats such as whistles and temporary tattoos.