Actor Patrick Dempsey, center, prepares to start the Survivor Walk with his mother, Amanda, right, and Amgen Breakaway from Cancer Award winner Laura Davis on Oct. 8, 2011, in Lewiston on the first day of the Dempsey Challenge. The sixth Dempsey Challenge took place in September without the woman who provided the inspiration for the fundraiser and a cancer center. Amanda Dempsey died in March.
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