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the American Heart Association is
gearing up for the 2018
Roanoke and New River Valley Heart walks
in October and FNS innovations is not
only a major sponsor and also
participant collecting items for local
schools and charities and together they
are making a tremendous impact in our
community joining me now with more are
Alicia Smith from FNS Building
innovations and Elizabeth veil from the
American Heart Association ladies
welcome thank you for having us yeah
Alicia let's start with you tell us a
little bit FNS what you all are about
FNS building innovations were a class a
general contractor we do both
residential and commercial work if
you've been any of the local hospital
networks you've probably seen our trucks
or our guys custom homes additions
kitchens baths you name it we can do it
and we can also add that interior design
piece as well so you don't have to go
outside and get a third party we do a
lot of that here a little bit of the
Joanna Gaines kind of thing I love that
you know exactly so why did you want to
be a sponsor of the American Heart
Association's Heart Walk we got involved
last year and wanted to do a little bit
more for me personally my grandmother
lived to be a hundred years old but she
had multiple heart attacks and strokes
over the years and I know that the
things that the Heart Association is
doing directly contribute to working
with her to make it to 100 years old
that's incredible right so you are
collecting some sports equipment and
balls and stuff like that why are you
doing that we are it's an opportunity to
just another way to give back to the
community these will eventually be
donated to local schools or nonprofits
just to encourage kids to get moving so
up until the heart walks we'll be
collecting new sports equipment at FNS
and then with the Heart Association will
then give back to those kids so if
people have some equipment that they'd
like to donate do they stop by bring
them to our office yeah and you're
located where we're at 29:44 Orange
Avenue and Roanoke and they can also
bring them to the Heart Walk both in RV
and run oh okay well it's a perfect
opportunity to talk about the heart
walks what can people expect well this
is our 25th anniversary so we're so
thrilled to have this in South West
Virginia we have our new River Valley
Heart Walk that will be October 7th
that will be at Virginia Tech corporate
Research Park in Blacksburg and then
October 20 is our Roanoke Regional Heart
Walk and that will be at river's edge
Park and one of the wonderful
opportunities we'll have to keep kids
moving is the opportunity with FNS to
bring a ball to the walk and we hope to
collect hundreds of pieces of sports
equipment to help encourage young folks
to get moving and keep moving so that's
one of the things we'll have our
survivor feature will have a red cap
survivor people who have survived some
type of heart event will be awarded a
red cap children will have red capes and
we're so thrilled to have Karelian
leading our efforts T Varner and
providing that red cap opportunity for
folks we'll have a memorial balloon
release pet parade picnic lunch just a
wonderful opportunity for folks to come
out and develop a hard hat habit heart
healthy habit of exercise if they're not
already exercising we'll have a one two
three and four mile walking options for
folks mhm so we're really excited to
invite the community and the heart walks
really are our mission in motion yes and
the funds go to the funds help to
support life-saving research right here
in our footprint we've invested a little
over a million dollars here at Virginia
Tech be calm and the Virginia Tech
curling Research Institute and there's
so many wonderful advancements that
we've made over the years such as CPR
open heart surgery port access surgery
robotic surgery I could go on and on but
a lot of things that are helping to save
lives and make an impact and the health
and wellness of folks here in our
footprint all right make sure that you
get involved and the website to get
involved for more information on these
walks either NRB Heart Walk org or
Roanoke Art Walk org
ok ladies thank you so much thank you
have enough