It's time to get registered and start training for the 2nd Annual "Dash for Mat's Bash". It was a blast for the first one last year and Tim & Annie Long said this one is going to be even better. Proceeds from the Bash go to fund memorial scholarships in memory of Mathugh Johnston. Mathugh was a victim of cancer. He would have been a senior this year. The scholarships are awarded annually in the spring at the WHS Class Day ceremonies.
This year's Dash is set for Saturday, October 16 at 5:30 P.M. They will start at 3:30 that afternoon for folks to pick up their packets and late registrations at the Wellsville Fire Hall. This year's Run/Walk race will start in front of Village Hall, go up Main, turn on 9th, up Riverside to 5th, back to Main and back to Village Hall. It's 400 meters or one & a half miles. First responders will be on hand. Water will be available at the end of the race.
This year's Dash will include a Fire Department Relay (FDR) with team members running in full gear & boots, handing off a water nozzle in each leg of the relay. The FDR teams will consist of six members and the challenge to be the best running Fire Department is open to any and all. Team members must be an active member of the department they are running for.
Registration is $10 per person and that gets you a racing number, a T-shirt and a chance on all the door prizes. Children 12 and under is $4 and the FDR Teams is $40 per team. There will be an extra $3 late charge for day of race registration. T-shirts are guaranteed for everyone who preregisters before October 6. After that it is first come, first served. For more information on registration call Tim or Annie Long at 330-532-3336 or 412-735-0418. You can mail your registration to them at 1703 Commerce St., Wellsville, OH 43968. Be sure to give them your T-shirt size if you mail it in. They are also on FaceBook.
There will be a costume contest for the children. Each child will receive a free pumpkin and candy plus be able to enjoy all the fun with the Dash. There will be prizes awarded to the top five male and the top five female runners.
Door prizes will be drawn based on race numbers. You have to be registered to be in the drawings. Tim tells me the big prize this year is a 42" Sanyo HDTV, which is already on hand, plus much, much more.
It's for a good cause and it's a load of fun to be part of it all. Put it on your calendar, get yourself registered and get ready. You won't regret it. We can't quite remember but we seem to recall Tim saying something about running the whole race in full fall-out gear & boots if a certain condition was met. It's one of those things in the back of our mind that we just can't quite recall.
What say you Tim...
ole nib
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Footnote: Believe this year's Dash is in memory of Lindsey Salsberry plus Mathugh. Lindsey was another cancer victim taken from us at a very early age. Her dad, Richard, will be giving a tribute for her at this year's Dash.
nib
Thanks Nib,
The race is a 1.5 mile walk or run (about the same as last year) Added is the fire department relay they will run 400 meters each in trunout gear along the same route. If we get 10 of these departments I stated I will run the whole race in turnout gear and an air pack. People like to watch me suffer and as long as it is for a good cause then why not. Any question feel free to give me a call.
Tim Long
Oh and come down to the Wellsville home game this Friday to register.
Thanks Tim. Think we were napping when they were teaching metrics back when we were in school. Guess 4 meters isn't quite 1.5 miles, huh... of course that was back in the days when we had to walk 5 miles to school in blizzards and it was all up-hill, both ways!
See ya Friday.
nib
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