Registration Now Open for 2017 Rotary Race for Charity
Registration is now open for the 20th Annual Rotary Race for Charity 5K Run and 3K Walk. The event will be held on Saturday morning, September 9th at Kildeer Countryside School, Long Grove.
The Race is organized by the Rotary Club of Long Grove, Kildeer and Hawthorn Woods. They anticipate over 400 preregistered runners and walkers. Walk-ins are encouraged the morning of the event. Many more will be in attendance to cheer, to help, and to enjoy the traditional pancake and sausage breakfast.
Lyle Staab, Hawthorn Woods, Race Director for this year's event observed, "Last year's event was a great success, with over 600 participants raising more than $40,000 for local charities. We're expecting a great turnout and result again this year." In the twenty years the Club has been sponsoring the event, they have raised approximately $300,000 for their own Rotary Charitable Foundation as well as approximately $1,200,000 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.
The charities participating in the event this year include:
*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.
*Riverside Foundation. Serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing high-quality care and programs at their residential facilities and work and activity center.
*Holy Cross Lutheran Church. Every three years 30,000 high school youth and their adult leaders from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gather for a week of faith formation known as the ELCA Youth Gathering.
*The Anthony James Brust Memorial Foundation. This group honors the memory of Anthony and his generous spirit with a scholarship fund to help students follow their dreams at UTI.
*PADS Lake County is dedicated to providing emergency shelter and supportive services to families with children and individuals who are experiencing homelessness in Lake County.
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 a civic service club, founded in Chicago in 1905 and with over 1.2 million members worldwide. There are more than 33,000 Clubs in over 200 countries around the world. The local club has sponsored and supported a number of local and international projects since its establishment more than 20 years ago.
Notable international projects in the past year have included: an annual dental mission to Latin America; contribution of Shelter Box tents to disaster areas around the world; donations to eradicate polio globally (now reduced to only two countries); and support of water and education projects in Africa.
Local projects include the contribution of coats and knit caps to needy children in the area; Adopt a Highway (along Route 53 in Long Grove); sponsorship of a local cub scout pack; aid to needy veterans; donations to the St. Mary's Food Pantry in Buffalo Grove; support of the Community Dinner at Emmaus House in Lake Zurich; donation and support of three Little Free Libraries at the Foglia YMCA in Lake Zurich, and the Community Park and the Aquatic Center in Hawthorn Woods.
Members of the Rotary Club are currently selling raffle tickets as part of their overall fundraising efforts. Tickets will also be available the day of the race.
This year's sponsors include:
(Platinum Level) Global Machine Parts;
(Gold Level) McGinty Brothers, Inc.; underwood Innovations;
(Silver Level) Sunset Foods; Ed Cruickshank, Huber Financial Advisers; Dr. David Schneider, DO, SC;
(Bronze Level) Arboria of Long Grove; runners high & tri; Joanie's Pizzeria of Long Grove; KOLBI Pipe Marker Company;
(Other) Elly's Pancake House; Waste Management.
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.