Healthy Kids Running Series gets ready for spring

GREENVILLE — The 2022 Wholesome Youngsters Working Collection (HKRS) fall session was a excellent results. HKRS little ones and volunteers want to thank Harry D. Stephens Memorial and the Darke County United Way for adding their guidance for the series.

The fall series, held in Oct, experienced 75 runners. This was approximately 4 instances far more than the 20 youngsters who loved the spring series.

“This was an remarkable improve, and a single that went efficiently for HKRS. We had a wonderful team of

runners, families, and volunteers this tumble. The community’s help was mind-boggling, and carries on to be,” reported Elise Hays with HKRS.

The program observed lots of runners return and strengthen on their development from the spring. The series concluded with a costume operate for the runners. There have been a lot of smiling faces as the runners got to gown up and race to the complete line.

“The greatest component of every single race was staying ready to link with the runners at the finish line. Simply because I manually consider off every single identify tag on the racing bibs, I can interact and say, ‘great job’ typically ahead of anyone else. Every runner warrants to know they completed one thing, no matter how quickly they ran,” Hays extra.

This slide, HKRS was delighted to welcome wonderful volunteers from the Greenville Cross State, Ansonia Cross Place , and Edison State’s Communications class taught by Bob Robinson.

Several organizations like Up and Functioning Exercise sneakers and Clothing, Zechar-Bailey Funeral Households, Expert Relatives Eyecare, Younger Forest Martial Arts, and GNB Banking Facilities, were series sponsors.

Wayne Health care Foundation, Acquire Diet, and lots of folks served support the series by monetary and product or service donations. Some men and women in the group also sponsored many younger athletes in the local community to run in the sequence/

Now, Wholesome Youngsters Functioning is happy to announce that the Harry D. Stephens Memorial Inc. and Darke County United Way have graciously served to fund the upcoming yr of races. This is the initially time HKRS Greenville has applied for any grant funding.

Hayes stated, “This funding is likely to support the application a lot more than I can express. I am so thankful and seem ahead to placing the cash to very good use in the coming months. It has opened so many prospects for the spring, we have so a lot in retail store!”

The spring dates for the sequence will be announced really shortly, so keep an eye out for the dates.

“We hope to see our runners return, as very well as some new faces. It is vital to us to have runners from all about Darke County occur alongside one another for this. Until eventually spring, we wish everybody healthful needs, and don’t forget to Get Up and Go,” said Hayes.

If you have inquiries call Elise Hayes at [email protected], or visit the Healthier Children Running Collection Greenville, OH Facebook and Instagram internet pages to see the most latest updates. For much more information take a look at the web site Nutritious Young ones Functioning Collection and search for the Greenville method.