PHOTOS: Great Fish Color Run
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 6 years, 3 months AGO
Crosby Peltier, 5, gets splashed with orange and purple colors Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Camille Deitz gets splashed with blue Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Paula Koch and Beth Gunlikson get splashed with blue Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Brody Peltier, 7, is all smiles after passing through a color station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Connor Keith, 12, runs through the green and yellow station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
A group of runners were all decked out for the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Eric Hale dashes through the blue station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Jeanetta Grilley gets splashed with orange and purple colors Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Runners make their way along the bike path Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Paul Harms gets splashed with blue Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Percival Field gets splashed with blue Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Jodi Riedel gets splashed with orange and purple colors Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Sara Bonds runs through the green and yellow station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Cora Delaloye, 6, runs through the green and yellow station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Luke Sol Bonds, 10, followed by Tim Bonds run through the green and yellow station Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run through Whitefish. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | September 7, 2019 12:56 PM
Runners got splashed with color Saturday morning during the Great Fish Community Challenge Color Run around Whitefish.
The run/walk is part of the fifth annual Great Fish Community Challenge organized by the Whitefish Community Foundation.
The morning also included a Community Celebration with events at Depot Park.
The challenge raises money through community donations and match funds for the 53 participating nonprofits. The campaign will officially end at 5 p.m. on Sept. 13.
To make a donation, visit the foundation website at www.whitefishcommunityfoundation.org. Contact the Whitefish Community Foundation at 406-863-1781 for more information or for questions about donating.
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