Nearly 100 Speedy
Runners, Walkers in
Benefit Thanksgiving
Turkey Trot Fun Run
Nearly 100 participants — a majority of them walkers, many of them with tethered dogs on leashes — took part in last Thursday morning’s 28th annual circuitous two-mile Turkey Trot Fun Run.
All told, the runners and walkers raised a total of $930 for Hinsdale County Sheriff’s Office’s annual Toys for Tots campaign.
This year’s event, sponsored by Hinsdale County Museum, easily eclipsed last year’s fundraiser which drew upwards of 75 runners/walkers and raised $830 for the Tots campaign.
Coordinated by Peggy Bales, a director of Hinsdale County Historical Society, and veteran Sheriff’s Office Administrator Bobbi McDonald, the event drew a stellar showing from three members of Lake City Community School’s cross country running team 7th Graders Joseph Tubbs and Rhys Phillimore, and 9th Grader Peter Loper — who were barely winded from the two-mile run when they loped across the finish line at Hinsdale County Museum in just under 20 minutes.
Tubbs was first to finish, followed closely on his winged heels by Phillimore and Loper.
First adult to finish the benefit race was an out-of-towner, Steven Swihart, Grand Junction, with an approximate 21-minute finish time. Thursday morning’s four first place finishers were followed by an entertaining menagerie of walkers and runners who crossed the finish line and then filed into
Hinsdale County Museum to commiserate on challenges of the race and rejuvenate with cookies and warm apple juice which were served up among museum exhibits now in process for next summer’s season.
Hinsdale County Sheriff’s Dept. was represented at the Turkey Trot by Hinsdale Sheriff and Undersheriff Chris Kambish and Jordan Kaminski, and Deputy Sarah Poet.
With a hefty preponderance of out-of-towners who were in Lake City for the Thanksgiving holiday, this year’s roster of runners and walkers — non-inclusive of everyone who participated — included Marsha Connell, Caron Jones, Rachel Moore, Eric Bertrand
