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Registration Underway For 2016 Rotary Race for Charity

Registration is now open for 19th Annual Rotary Race for Charity 5K Run and 3K Walk. The event will be held on Saturday, September 10th at Kildeer Countryside School, Long Grove.

The Race is organized by the Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer and Hawthorn Woods. They anticipate approximately 700 preregistered runners and walkers. Walk-ins are encouraged the morning of the event. This typically adds another 100-200 people to the mix. Many more will be in attendance to cheer, to help, and to enjoy a sausage and Chick-fil-A and pancake breakfast. The name of the event was changed this year from the "Long Grove Heritage Race 5K Run and 3K Walk" to " Rotary Race for Charity 5K Run and 3K Walk" to better reflect the true nature of the event.

Lyle Staab, Hawthorn Woods, who is Race Director for this year's event observed, "Last year was a great success, with over 800 participants raising more than $50,000 for local charities. We're expecting another great event this year." In the eighteen years the Club has been sponsoring the event, they have raised approximately $300,000 for their Charitable Foundation as well as approximately $1,000,000 for the participating charities.

Registration may be made directly online at RotaryRace.org. Personal fund raising pages may also be created at the same time.

This year the charities working with Rotary on the event include:

*Barb's Precious Rescue and Adoption Center. Their mission is to create a safe and humane haven by providing medical attention, food, shelter, and love for cats that have been abused, abandoned or neglected.

*The Christopher Steele Foundation. Supports institutions and individuals who are researching cures for brain tumors (with a particular emphasis on sarcomas).

*The Center On Deafness. Provides services to both children and adults who have hearing impairments with additional disabilities such as mental illness or developmental disabilities.

*Exodus World Service. Recruits local volunteers, equips them with information and training, and then links them directly with refugee families newly arrived in the Chicago Metropolitan area.

* Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes works to provide properly preserved human milk, primarily to premature and ill infants.

Other participating charities in the family oriented event are motivated by their desire to further a cause which arose from personal experiences:

*The Anthony James Brust Memorial Foundation provides a scholarship for technical training in honor of its namesake, who died in a motorcycle accident.

*The Michael P. Savoca Memorial Foundation. Their mission is to increase public awareness and raise funds to help support organizations that are dedicated to finding a cure and raising awareness of Pulmonary Fibrosis.

*PADS of Lake County, Inc. is dedicated to providing emergency shelter and supportive services to families with children and individuals who are experiencing homelessness in Lake County.

*Riverside Foundation. This group provides residential support and developmental training services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Their residential facility at their main campus, their community homes and their work and activity center, are devoted to making a difference in the lives of the individuals they serve - and to those who love them.

The Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer and Hawthorn Woods is a group of professionals who live or work in surrounding area. Rotary International is the oldest civic service club, founded in Chicago in 1905 and with over 1.2 million members worldwide. The local club has sponsored and supported a number of local and international projects since its establishment almost 20 years ago.

Notable international projects in the past year have included: contribution of Shelter Box tents to disaster areas around the world; and support of water and education projects in Africa. The Club is also supporting the Rotary International goal of eliminating polio. A dental mission to the Dominican Republic is being planned for the end of September.

Local projects include: Adopt a Highway (along Route 53 in Long Grove); sponsorship of a local cub scout pack; donation of Thanksgiving dinners to area veterans and their families; support of the Arts via sponsorship of concerts in Long Grove and Hawthorn Woods; a donation to the St. Mary's Food Pantry in Buffalo Grove; a donation to A Safe Haven in Libertyville; support of the Community Dinner at Emmaus House in Lake Zurich; sponsorship of two local high school students to the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA); and donation of a Little Free Library at the Hawthorn Woods Community Park.

This year's sponsors include: JTEKT/Koyo/Toyoda; Chick-fil-A Kildeer; Underwood Innovations; McGinty Brothers, Inc.; Huber Financial Advisors; David Schneider, DO, SC; Arlington Toyota; Historic Downtown Long Grove; Runner's Hi 'n Tri; Associates For General Dentistry, Ltd.; AUXIN Group; Long Grove Living; PNC; Riehn Insurance; Sunset Foods; Elly's Pancake House; McDonald's of Lake Zurich; Kolbi Pipe Markers, and Einstein Bros Bagels. The group is also fortunate to include about one dozen volunteers each year from Stevenson and Lake Zurich High Schools.

More information about this year's event, including photos, and more about the Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer, and Hawthorn Woods may be found at RotaryRace.org and at RCLG.org. Photos of recent races are also posted at the Club's Facebook page.

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