Local Bicyclists to Remember Family Members in Weekend 'Tour de Cure' Ride
Two local cyclists are riding in Sunday's Tour de Cure that starts and ends at Pingree School to raise diabetes awareness, in part because of the impact the disease has had on their relatives.
Kimberly Smith Charrette was at a local bike shop a few months ago when she came across a brochure for the Tour de Cure, a nationwide cycling event to raise awareness of diabetes. When she saw the date, the Wenham native and mother of four did a double-take. Just a week after Mother’s Day, May 22 was the birth date of her mother-in-law Phyllis Charrette as well as the third anniversary of the her mother-in-law's death from complications of diabetes. “I turned to my stepdaughter Janna and said, ‘I can’t believe this,’” recalled Charrette. “This is a sign. And she looked at me and said, ‘We gotta do this.’” So on Sunday, Charrette, Janna, daughter Sam, and Charrette’s sister-in-law Pam Eckmann will gather at 8 a.m. to begin their 62-mile …
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