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Porker Run to help fight diabetes
Saturday event part of the "Kiss-A-Pig" campaign
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The ongoing effort by Georgia Southern football coach Jeff Monken and Statesboro businessman Bubba Hunt to earn the right to kiss a pig resumes Saturday with a "Porker Run" to benefit the American Diabetes Association's 2011 Kiss-a-Pig campaign. The Porker Run actually is a Poker Run with the first bike out of Sinkhole Customs at 11 a.m. and the last bike in at Locos Grill & Pub by 2 p.m. All money gathered as part of the annual ADA event - which is the association's largest fundraising effort of the year - will be used to find a cure for diabetes and improve the lives of people affected by the disease. According to the American Diabetes Association, 26 million Americans are living with diabetes and another 79 million are at risk for developing the disease - It is the nation's fifth deadliest disease, killing more than 220,000 Americans each year, and the leading cause of heart disease, stroke, adult blindness, kidney failure and non-traumatic amputations.
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