Residents stepped off to improve community landscape in Moosic
MOOSIC, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — More than 200 people set foot on Sunday to help improve a community's landscape in Lackawanna County's Triboro area. Sunshine greeted runners and walkers this morning for the inaugural Move with Moosic.
The 5K run/walk took participants from the Moosic Youth Center and throughout the borough before ending where things started.
Heroes wear running shoes in Superhero Buddy Run 5K
The goal of this event is to raise funds to improve the borough's public parks and green spaces.
'The vision was really to engage the community in a way where everybody could participate to help us improve the neighborhood for the rest of the community so everybody really was so supportive and excited about it and we're just blown away at how successful it truly was,' Move With Moosic and Moosic Council Member and Chair Marilyn French told 28/22 News.
Organizers raised more than $40,000 at Sunday's inaugural running event in Moosic.
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