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FLORENCE — Don Bockoven, CEO of Darling Fibers, will lead the charge as the 2025 American Heart Association's Pee Dee Heart Walk Chair to build a community of lifesavers in Florence.

Under Bockoven's leadership, top executives throughout the Pee Dee will unite to recruit companies and organizations to join the Heart Walk, a year round campaign aimed at raising funds to fight cardiovascular disease while equipping people with the education, knowledge and resources to act in the face of a cardiac emergency by learning CPR.

The year-round Heart Walk campaign will culminate on Oct. 4, 2025, at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center where more than 800 participants will walk to save lives while raising essential funds to advance lifesaving research,

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