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Sherri Laffey Sarrouf, right, founder of Fitness for a Cure, a fundraiser to benefit the ALSAC/St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. courtesy photos

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LOWELL -- As a longtime fitness buff who once ran five different Gold's Gym health clubs, Sherri Laffey Sarrouf has always been very active.

So when Sarrouf was ordered bedridden after going into preterm labor at 22 weeks while pregnant with her daughter, Elizabeth, she had time to ponder how lucky she was that her situation was pretty short-term.

"I said, 'We're healthy people and we're so blessed; it's so much harder for a child who has cancer,'" Sarrouf recalled.

After giving birth to Elizabeth, who is now a healthy eighth grader, Sarrouf decided she needed to do something to help sick children who spend much more time grappling with serious health problems than she did.

"I could not think of a more compelling way than to support the life-saving work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital," said Sarrouf, president and owner of Lowell-based SLS Fitness.

So she founded Fitness for a Cure, a fundraiser to benefit the ALSAC/St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

With St. Jude's celebrating its 50th anniversary of fighting childhood cancer and other diseases and the event she started now in its 13th year, Sarrouf hopes to do even better than the $305,000 raised last year when the Lowell Memorial Auditorium hosts Fitness for a Cure, presented by Flexecution, Inc., on March 24.

"To date, we've raised almost $2 million," she said.

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