The Children’s Dyslexia Center of Peoria is hosting the 6^th Annual Dyslexia Walk on Saturday, September 20, 2014.  Registration and check-in starts at 9:00 a.m. and the Walk steps off at 10:00 a.m.  The walk starts at Peoria Heights Water Tower Park and goes down beautiful Grandview Drive to Peoria Country Club and back.  So get a group of friends, get out your walking shoes and join us in raising money for the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Peoria.  Registration fee is $25 for adults and $10 for children under 12.  Please pre-register by September 11 to guarantee your shirt size.  Contact Dick Hummel for registration at 547-3138.

This is a fundraiser for the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Peoria, which is a 501(c)(3) charity of the Scottish Rite Valley of Peoria.  More than 50 percent of the funding must be raised at the local level.  Since the establishment of the Center in 1994, more than 7,000 children have been helped and 1,400 tutors have been trained and certified.  All services are provided to the children free of charge.  It takes approximately $10,000 to tutor one child for two years.  The Dyslexia Center of Peoria has a nearly 100 percent success rate, meaning that virtually every child who comes into the tutoring program gets the support they need to conquer their learning disability and achieve their full potential.