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(KSL News) Some Utahns enjoyed the nice weather today by getting out to help some good causes.
Several hundred joined in a 5-K run, walk and wheel put on by the Alta Club. Proceeds will benefit the Make a Wish Foundation of Utah.
Organizers hope to raise enough money to send a young boy to the Smithsonian.
Hundreds also walked in teams for the big March of Dimes Walk America fundraiser.
Since it began in 1970, Walk America has raised more than a billion dollars for research into premature birth and to help families.
Nearly 52-hundred babies will be born prematurely in Utah this year.
