SPOKANE, Wash. — The Community Cancer Fund is gearing up for the second annual Boulevard Race this Sunday.
This four mile race is a fundraiser for the foundation and a way to show support for those battling cancer.
Jon Neill, the executive director for the Community Cancer Fund, said the Boulevard race is all about rallying around the most important cause.
“One of the taglines in our race is that we are all in the race to beat cancer,” Neill said. “What we’ve done is assemble a great group of partners that understand what we are doing. They are also the ones that are lifting it up.”
The Community Cancer Fund is an organization that helps make sure other organizations that treat cancer patients have the funding they need.
“When we have been able to raise the millions of dollars through our events, it’s to help those individuals so that they have transportation, so that they have housing, so that they have access,” Neill said.
Some organization the Community Cancer Fund helps out are the Ronald McDonald House, the children’s hospital and Washington State University.
“We have partnered with Washington State University and their medical school in starting the first ever pediatrics residency program so that we can bring in these amazing doctors and keep them in Spokane,” Neill said.
Over the past nine years, the Community Cancer Fund has raised $28 million. The Boulevard Race is just one of the ways it raises the funds.
Carrie Pettibone has volunteered for all of the Community Cancer Fund fundraisers.
“If I don’t do it, who else is going to do it?” she said.
This year, the Boulevard race has a new course that starts and ends at the McCarthy Athletic Center and runs through the Spokane University District
“Around every turn, there is a new entertainment feature that’s coming your way,” Neill said. “We have ten DJs on the course, we have the Eerie Street scream tunnels out there at mile two. We have this little hill and at the top is a rock band cheering you on.”
It costs $30 to be part of the Boulevard Race. You can register online at their website here.
So far, 3,000 people are signed up for the race. As of Friday evening, there are about 100 spots left.
The race begins at 10 a.m. and roads around the course will close from 8 a.m. to noon.
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