A walk for food-allergy awareness, Moving Toward a Cure in Richmond, will be held Saturday at the Snag-a-Job Pavilion in Innsbrook in Henrico County. Similar events are being held nationwide in 35 cities in connection with the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network to increase knowledge about food allergies and to raise money for research and education.

If you want a book written right, write it yourself. That’s the conclusion Trinace Johnson came to after she began looking for books about food allergies for her allergic son, Jordan. “Most of the selections of child food-allergy books were really, really bad,“ Johnson said. “I kept thinking, ‘I can write a way better and more interesting story than these.‘