A fun run that will benefit Magnolia area schools is set for October 9th in Magnolia. The race will be a 12k run and a 5k run/walk, starting and finishing at the Magnolia playfield.
Alex Eddings from Magnolia Travel outlined plans for the race at the chamber of commerce meeting, saying that he is still looking for input and volunteers from the community. He is working with Josh Penner and Marty Penner of Mgnolia Chiropractic Care and Geoff Meno from Edward Jones to make the race happen.
Organizers expect to have 1,000 people participate in this first ever fun run staged in Magnolia. A portion of all entry fees will be donated to Blaine, Lawton, Our Lady of Fatima and Ballard High School. At this point they expect the entry fee to be $35, which will include a T shirt.
The current course plan for the 12k race will be a loop around Magnolia that includes Thorndyke and Magnolia Boulevard before heading back to the playfield. It has also been suggested that the run should include a trip up the Magnolia bridge. The final course will be set once organizers receive final approval for the race from the city of Seattle.
Organizers are working with a professional race management company to stage and market the race. They also say they will need at least 85 volunteers to be successful and they are open to ideas from the community.
Eddings says they are currently looking for sponsors for the race. Sponsorship is offered starting at $250 and the cost of the title sponsorship is set at $7,500. The group is planning for post race festivities that include live music, an exhibitor area and beer garden.
If you would like to volunteer, contact Eddings via email at eddingsalex@hotmail.com
Great idea! What about some of the proceeds going to McClure Middle School? Magnolia kids are also assigned there by SPS for middle school . What do we need to do to get them included in the schools who will benefit?
I have a problem with this, Great idea to start but not much on the back end. Unless i’m missign something. What is this money actually going towards? Are you just cutting a check and droping it in the mail? Is this going to suplpy new computers? desks? textbooks? PE equiptment?
also I have a major problem with giving Fatima any money at all. They are ran by the church and funded with private money. Why are we raising money for public education and giving it to a Catholic Church School? If they are short on money they should do there own fundaraiser’s or raise toution. Also this is the magnolia 12k/ 5k run correct? Then why are you giving money to Ballard high School? If you want to give moeny to schools in the area what about the other schools out there? What about Salmon bay elementry? What about whittman Middle School? What about the Montisorri school in magnolia? What about Creative arts for Children pre-school?
This is an idea created by people who ahve interest’s in specific school’s and are looking for there own personal gain. If this was a true honest fundraiser for education it would include all schools not just the hand picked few they have choosen.
The race has yet to reach out to all the schools in the area we plan on doing that. We don’t plan on excluding any of the schools at all. This is a community event and the communities opinion is welcomed to make it a sucsess.
Magman, the feeling I get is that the organizers want to do something that will benefit all the kids in the Magnolia area, and the way they are choosing to do it is to give money to all the schools they attend. As Alex said, it sounds like the schools he mentioned are just a start. I also didn’t see anything in the description about this being a fundraiser for *public* schools…it was described above as a fundraiser for *area* schools.
As always, there are two options: Don’t give them your money if you don’t agree with where it will go, or participate in the organization and change it. I try not to register for races that will benefit cancer and then complain that it’s not going to foster kids. : )
I think it’s wonderful that the organizers have chosen to focus their fundraising on all the kids in our neighborhood! Thanks, guys!
Maybe some money can be directed to a fund to teach grammar to Magnolia Voice commentors.
Maybe some money can be directed to a fund to teach grammar to Magnolia Voice commentors.
Maybe some money can be directed to a fund to teach grammar to Magnolia Voice commentors.
Excellent! It’s on my calendar!
Fantastic – can’t wait for the race and its great its benefiting the area schools, both public and private.
Magman I think they intend to give some of the proceeds to Ballard Highschool because the highschool that once served Magnolia now houses condominiums. Ballard is now the reference school for Magnolia. It is puzzling that proceeds would go to a parish school and not McClure Middle School, which is the reference middle school for all Lawton graduates.
Looking forward to a long run, but the let’s scratch the Magnolia Bridge. That would take it out of the neighborhood and through lots more traffic. Thorndyke is enough of a challenge.