Newport Residents to Run Boston Marathon

Two women from Newport Beach will be running a marathon in Boston next week to help raise money for cancer research.

Kandace McMenomy, of Corona del Mar, and Sherrie Kaplan, of Newport Coast, are scheduled to run in the 117th Boston Marathon on Monday to help raise $4.6 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The women are members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team, which is made up of 550 people from around the world. 

One-hundred-percent of the funds raised will benefit Dana-Farber’s Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research, which supports cornerstone science research in its earliest stages.

Since it began in 1990, the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge has raised more than $56 million for the Barr Program. Dana-Farber Trustees J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver founded the Barr Program in 1987 to honor Weaver’s mother, Claudia Adams Barr, who lost her battle with cancer in 1957.

If you would like to contribute to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge, visit RunDFMC.org.