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Running to fight brain tumors
DeKALB - More than 200 walkers and runners turned out Sunday at Hopkins Park for the inaugural Walk 4 Wisdom and Run 4 Research fund-raiser for brain tumor research.
The event was the idea of Sam Ihm, a fifth-grader at St. Mary School in DeKalb who had a nonmalignant, 1-inch brain tumor removed in January 2004 at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Members of Sam's baseball team, DeKalb-Cortland Lightning, joined him and his family for the event Sunday. Ihm and teammates Kyle Berg, Adam Crooper, Jeremy Karasewski, Danny Petras, Jake Smith, Trenton Sopko and Eric Stone all walked the three-kilometer course.
“It's good” and “It's fun” were the consensus of the group.
Sam had a good time and was moved by the show of support. 
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