FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Marita C Wenner, Executive Director

PRESS RELEASE

2002 Run for the Red Cross

Honesdale PA 18431: Two hundred runners and fifty volunteers turned out on a beautiful Saturday, June 8th morning for the fourth Annual Wayne Pike Chapter’s Run for the Red Cross. The event consisting of a scenic, 10K and 5K run around Promised Land Lake at the State Park. The chapter raised over $8000 from the event to support the programs of the local chapter. Race Director Coulby Dunn stated, “The proceeds from this event will stay within our community to support the vital work of our Red Cross. The Red Cross is always there to provide disaster assistance, blood products, first aid, CPR and lifesaving training, and to assist military personnel and their families. We are not a government agency and receive no outside funding so it is events such as this that help financially support the important work that we do. This year has been difficult for our Red Cross chapter, besides helping many local families that were affected by the events of September 11^th, we have also experienced many local single family fires with families that have needed our assistance with food, shelter, clothing and personal items.”

All pre-registered racers received participation packets, which included tee shirts, sponsored by Gumble Brothers, Caesars Cove Haven and Banner Insurance Co. and First Aid Kits, donated by Altec Lansing.

The fifty volunteers that were on hand to help were lead by the Board of Directors of the Wayne Pike Chapter. Groups that helped at the race were the Promised Land Fire and Ambulance Association, the National Park Service, NEPARS and RACES Radio groups, the Junior Firefighters from Hemlock Farms and Red Cross volunteers from the community.

The American Red Cross is dedicated to helping make families and communities safer at home and around the world. A volunteer-led humanitarian service organization, the American Red Cross annually provides almost half the nation's blood supply, trains more than 11.7 million people in vital lifesaving skills, mobilizes relief to victims of more than 60,000 disasters nationwide, provides direct health services to 2.8 million people, assists international disaster and conflict victims in nearly 30 countries, and transmits more than 1.4 million emergency messages to members of the U.S Armed Forces and their families.

***Race results follow***