January 31, 2012 – The Long Beach Ronald McDonald House’s (LBRMH) 2012 Walk For Kids event kicked off with an informational breakfast on January 20 at Gladstone’s Long Beach, 330 S. Pine Ave. The event, which takes place in Shoreline Park on April 1, is a 5K walk designed to raise funds and awareness for the services and programs the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California provides to seriously ill or injured children and their families. There is no cost to register for the 2012 Walk For Kids event as an individual or as a team, as funds are raised through donations to the walk’s participants. For more information regarding registration or to make a donation, visit www.walkforkids.org. Pictured standing, from left, are: Lynne Pillsbury; Suzanne Nosworthy; Kathleen Costello-Pitts; Mary Alice Braly; John Sangmeister, owner of Gladstone’s Long Beach; Randy Gordon, co-chair of the 2012 Walk For Kids event; Cheri Bazley, executive director of the LBRMH; and Diane Dubois. Pictured sitting is Mort Stuhlbarg, president of the LBRMH Board of Trustees. (Photograph by the Business Journal’s Thomas McConville)