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The popular ME STRONG 5K returned to DeLand on Saturday. The annual run/walk race raises funds to help local cancer patients with non-medical bills.

The popular ME STRONG 5K returns to downtown DeLand on Saturday. The event raises funds to help cancer patients with bills.

Founders of ME STRONG, a DeLand-based nonprofit raising funds for cancer patients with an annual 5K, thought the 2022 race was their last. Its not.

The final ME STRONG 5K race was held in downtown DeLand Saturday morning. About 5,000 participated in the event raising funds for cancer patients.

ME STRONG 5K, annual DeLand run to benefit cancer patients, moves online Katie Kustura, The Daytona Beach News-Journal © KATIE KUSTURA/NEWS-JOURNAL Kendrick Thomas hands over a sign to a future participant of the ME STRONG 5K in DeLand alongside three of the nonprofit races founders, Kim Martin, Linda Ryan and Barbara Underhill, on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Since 2012, the annual ME STRONG 5K has raised money to help those battling cancer and to fund research. This years ME STRON...