By Kayla Wolanin, Hale Area Schools student
HALE – Beginning with one of Michigan’s chillier days, the Hale Color Run turned out to be a huge success! With 91 runners leaving the event covered in color and smiling faces, the community was able to raise over $5,514 for our teachers to put towards their classrooms and monthly recognitions! Thank you to our Hale Fire Department, Iosco County Fairground board, Township department, Rose City Office, Hale NHS kids, Hale Cross Country, dunkees, parent volunteers, I Want that Kettle Corn, Fresh Kitchen, and Hale staff. This event could not have been possible without everyone!
Kicking off the day with the ages 12 and under mile run, our volunteers created nothing short of a cloud of color for the children to run through! Concluding their race, each mile run racer had the chance to dunk one of our 4 dunkees into the chilly tank! Taking place only moments after, the 5k Color Run included 6 color stations, each of which recreated the cloud of color for excited individuals to run through! Our first finisher went to Paxton Downing, a freshman at Hale High School with a time of 23:15, second place, Matt Albin, finished at 23:21, and third place was finished at 24:58 by Jordan Barclay, a fellow teacher at Hale Area Schools. Thank you again to all of our runners, volunteers, and supporters!
