All this weekend:  Cycle for Solutions, Miles for Medals, Remembrance Run, Run for Food

• Cycle for Solutions- Oct 3: The Children’s Advocacy Center is hosting a family fun ride “Cycle for Solutions” on Saturday October 3 to help bring awareness to the devastating effects of child abuse. Registration is 9-10am at Darrow Park (1025 Bay St). The cost is $25.00 for individuals or $35.00 for families. You will ride the TART/Leelanau Trail out to DeYoung Natural Area. Volunteers will be posted at road crossings and will have water and refreshments for the riders. This event is a fundraiser for developing the Traverse Bay Children’s Advocacy Center. The center’s goal is to help prevent child abuse. For more information, please go to www.tccpcan.com

 

• Miles for Medals- Oct 3: Join Special Olympics Michigan at the 2009 Traverse City Miles for Medals fundraising walk, at 880 Parsons on the TART Trail. It helps support our athletes and provides a fun filled morning of activities and of course, walking! Registration and event time is 8:30-11:30 a.m. This event assists TART Trails with fulfilling their goal of providing safe and accessible trails for people of all ages and disabilities. Come out and make life long friends while experiencing the joy of being able to help change lives, literally, one step at a time! Register today either online or at (800) 644-6404. Registration and event run from 8:30-11:30am. There is a minimum of a $10 pledge to participate, but raise $25 or more and receive a free T-shirt! So grab a friend and walk for a cause! http://www.somi.org/events.php?eventID=2088

 

• Remembrance Run- Oct 3: The Traverse City Track Club is hosting a run/walk for the Women’s Cancer Fund on the Vasa Pathway. The event takes place at Timber Ridge Resort. The run/walk begins at 10:00 am but festivities begin earlier. Go to http://www.tctrackclub.com/index.html for more details. 

 

• Oryana’s "Run for Food" and Ice Cream Social- Oct 4: Dust off those sneakers, grab the kids and join the fun. The run starts at 2 pm so gather at the east end of the Oryana parking lot by 1:30 pm. This is a 1-mile run from the Co-op to Hull Park (by the Library) and back on the newly finished Boardman Lake section of the TART trail. All participants are asked to donate a non-perishable food item for the pantry box. If you’d like, obtain a Race Sponsorship Form at the Oryana Customer Service Desk and get your sponsors to also donate food items. The more sponsors you get the more food you can collect for the box. The ultimate winner will be a local food pantry designated by Oryana. For those of you with more energy, try the 5-mile run by continuing on to Medalie Park (by Logan’s Landing) and back. The Ice Cream Social starts around 3 pm immediately following the race and will take place outside the Lake St. Cafe on the patio. We will be scooping up Shelter Family Dairy ice cream and you can make your own sundae from an array of toppings. Sit back and enjoy a little local music by musician John Phillips. For more information, please go to http://www.oryana.coop/events.html