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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Evansville Santa Run Chair wins 2024 Rotary Civic Award
EVANSVILLE, Ind (WEHT) – The Evansville Rotary Club announces the winner of its 2024 Civic Award. This year's honor goes to Cathy Renner, the chair of Evansville's annual Santa Run. Renner brought the event to the city back in 2014 after first taking part in a similar run in Illinois. Since then, she says the event has grown every year, raising nearly $280,000 to support local causes. Renner says receiving the award was both unexpected and humbling. 'When you think about Bill Wooden and Bob Cook and Lloyd Winnecke and Carol McClintock and Rita Eykamp, all those that I have followed and their contributions to the community, and then he taps me on the shoulder. I think, 'Oh, my goodness.'' The purpose of the award is to recognize people for outstanding civic cultural service to Evansville. It's given for services performed for the year or a lifetime of services. The first recipient was E. Mead Johnson, Sr. in 1927. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
BBC News
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Sight loss charity colour run set to return to Wolverhampton
People are being invited to sign up for a colour run in Wolverhampton to raise money for a sight loss Beacon Centre for the Blind organised its first annual Family Fun Colour Run in 2022 and last year the event raised £4,000, with 250 people taking part. The charity said the event is filled with "colour, laughter, and community spirit" as walkers and runners are showered with vibrant, non-toxic powder. Participants have coloured powders thrown on them along the 5km (3.1 miles) route around East Park, with this year's run taking place on 11 May. The Beacon Centre has also been organising a Santa Run in the city which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in charity said it aims is to "make sure no-one has to face sight loss alone" and helps people who live with conditions including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Follow BBC Wolverhampton & Black Country on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
