PHOTO GALLERY: 7th annual Sarasota Walk

People start to make their way over the Ringling Bridge during the Sarasota Walk.

Erilda Waters and Lavonne Shedivy were two of the volunteers who helped out at the Sarasota Walk.

Rick Thie poses with his PC Striders teammates, Barbara and Klaus Lang

Jim Shedivy works on tearing off raffle tickets while Sharon Schwalm, Susan Seth-Ward and Rob Donath wait to buy them.

Tony Humphrey, Chris Cook, Krystal Kahn, Kathy Reinbolt, Mariah Kahn and Kayla Kahn, sitting in front, walk each year in honor of Michael Kahn who passed away in 2006.

Volunteers Sarah Moorman and Jim Seaton try to stay warm.

Abba's Army set up their stuff over by one of the memorial statues in JD Hamel park.

Diana, 1, and Hailey, 3, Fritschle

Cousins Cameron Cox and Deric Wien

Caley Hopkins, 7

Team Diane

Tom Waters and Nancy Flemming, founder of the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Foundation.

Mayor Suzanne Atwell speaks to the crowd that came out for the Sarasota Walk.

Diane Fritschle, far left, squats down next to her granddaughters, Diana, 1, and Hailey, 3. Fritschle is a 2-year survivor of pancreatic cancer and had to be wheeled across the Ringling bridge in a wheelchair last year.

Sharon Martineau, Penelope Kingman, Holly Braun, Eve Wickwire and Patti Ostroski