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See the full story · 1 sourcesAug. 20—A 4-mile Spokane road race featuring 13 DJs, bagpipes, beads and doughnuts unveiled its new shirt design Thursday.
The Boulevard Race shirt puts "Spokane" across the top beneath a rising sun. Jon Neill, the director of the race, credited the Great PNW and its in-house Bison printing team with turning it around in time for Thursday's announcement.
"(There's nothing) more fitting than to put Spokane right there at the top with a rising sun. After all, Spokane means children of the sun, and here we are, Spokane rising," he said.
The race is also lowering the entry fee from $30 to $25 in response to the recent Spokane wildfires.
"We're going to go ahead and we're going to drop our entry fee back down to the original OG rate of $25 to make our race outrageously affordable so that everyone can participate, all families can participate. And we're going to run that $25 entry fee until we sell out, until we don't have any more shirts," Neill said.
Neill directs the Boulevard Race and also serves as executive director of Community Cancer Fund, the organizer and producer of the race. The Community Cancer Fund presented a $150,000 check Thursday to the Andrew Rypien Pediatric Oncology Endowment, which Neill said completes a $1.2 million endowment supporting pediatric cancer care at Providence Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. The Community Cancer Fund is a nonprofit that funds cancer care and patient support across the Inland Northwest.
Mark Rypien, former professional football quarterback and Super Bowl MVP, lost his son Andrew at age 3 after a battle with cancer.
"I appreciate first and foremost all those at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital. And mostly for the boots on the ground. The nurses, the doctors that take care of these kids," Rypien said.
The race reached 10,000 cumulative registrants over the past four years. It is on track to hit 5,000 racers, up from 3,500 the previous year.
"It's the most fun that you'll ever have over 4 miles ... we've got bagpipes, we've got the foam zone, we've got beads, we've got the flamingo go zone ... we'll have, believe it or not, about half runners and half joggers," he said.
The fourth annual race is on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. and is a 4-mile loop through the University District.
"It's just an awesome race course where we can storm in, we can set up and activate all of our awesome cheer zones and really build an enormous big city race," Neill said.
"You literally will finish the race and ask to do it again," he said.
Troy Slack's reporting is part of the Teen Journalism Institute, funded by STCU with support from Comma.
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