Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes is Oct. 24 As the Grand Forks Chairperson, I invite you to the 2009 Step Out Walk to Fight Diabetes. This is an American Diabetes Association national event, and this year's Grand Forks Walk is Oct. 24 at the Alerus Center. Following the Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes event, join the Kiwanis Club of Grand Forks from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Splashers of the South Seas water park inside the Canad Inns. For each $150 individually raised, walkers will receive one free wrist band to the water park (to be used that day). Help the American Diabetes Association find a cure, and promote prevention of diabetes. Even $10 would be great. I appreciate your efforts. Click here for more information. -- Eric Johnson, Family and Community Medicine