Run for a Cause 5K Color Run raises money for recreation
CHERYL SCHWEIZER | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 12 months AGO
Runners get a shot of purple during the Columbia Basin Health Association Run for a Cause 5K Color Run Aug. 28 in Othello.
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Senior Reporter Cheryl Schweizer is a journalist with more than 30 years of experience serving small communities in the Pacific Northwest. She began her post-high-school education at Treasure Valley Community College and enerned her journalism degree at Oregon State University. After working for multiple publications, she has settled down at the Columbia Basin Herald and has been a staple of the newsroom for more than a decade. Schweizer’s dedication to her communities and profession has earned her the nickname “The Baroness of Bylines.” She covers a variety of beats including health, business and various municipalities. | September 8, 2021 1:00 AM
OTHELLO — The Columbia Basin Health Association Run for a Cause 5K Color Run Aug. 28 raised more than $40,000 for parks and recreation departments.
Courtney Martinez, one of the organizers, wrote in an email the Color Run attracted 592 entries.
“Due to other community events taking place in the area, attendance was a little less compared to previous years,” Martinez wrote.
Martinez said the money raised would be donated to the parks and recreation departments in Othello, Mattawa and Connell, the three towns where CBHA has a clinic.
This was the fourth year for the Color Run and the third race in person. It moved online in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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