RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Feb. 11, 2013)— Join Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire at the Inland Empire Walk For Wishes^® event on Saturday, April 20. The event will take place at Castle Park in Riverside from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. The walk will be the site of a huge celebration to recognize the chapter’s 30^th anniversary and is held in conjunction with World Wish Day, the anniversary of the very first wish.

The Inland Empire Walk For Wishes event includes a family-fun walk and a World of Wishes festival featuring each type of wish experience: I wish to have, I wish to go, I wish to meet, and I wish to be. The walk will honor the chapter’s anniversary and World Wish Day with a reunion for past and present wish recipients.

Registration for the walk and festivities is $25 now through 5 p.m. on April 12, and includes a Make-A-Wish t-shirt, food and access to all of the day’s exciting activities. Starting April 13, registration will be $35 through Friday, April 19, at noon. After that time, online registration will no longer be available. On-site registration is $40 on the day of the walk. To register, go to: http://walkforwishes2013ie.kintera.org.

With more than 50 percent of the chapter’s wish recipients living in the Inland Empire, the goal for the Walk For Wishes event is to create a stronger local presence and grant more wishes than ever before this coming year.

To learn more about the Inland Empire Walk For Wishes^® event, please visit www.wishocie.org or call the Make-A-Wish main office at (714) 573-9474, or contact Sarah Pizzaruso at pizzaruso@wishocie.org. You can find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/makeawishocie and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/makeawishocie, #IEWalkForWishes.

Make-A-Wish^® grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Founded in 1980 when a group of caring volunteers helped a young boy fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, Make-A-Wish is one of the world’s leading children’s charities, with 62 chapters in the United States and its territories. With the help of generous donors and nearly 25,000 volunteers, Make-A-Wish grants a wish every 38 minutes and has granted more than 200,000 wishes in the United States since its inception. For more information about the Make-A-Wish Orange County and the Inland Empire, visit wishocie.org and discover how you can share the power of a wish^®.