$2.5 million and four years later, look what the Dempsey Challenge has done, a new expanded space for the Patrick Dempsey Center for Hope and Healing, providing both and much more to cancer patients in central Maine.
Dempsey's roots in Maine go deep and it was his goal to renovate and breathe new life into a downtown building. Dempsey is the first to say it's a community of people that makes it possible. Not just those who live here, but others from all over the world - including the world class cyclers who support the challenge.
More than 4,000 people have signed up for this weekend's Dempsey Challenge. Their biggest cheerleader is Dempsey's mother, a cancer survivor.
The final tally won't be known until after the event this weekend, but before it's even started, this year's Dempsey Challenge has raised $1 million.
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