Peachy the Magazine January / February 2014 | Page 93

Summer’s Passions
Running With Ed
For five years, hundreds
of Park City residents of
all ages have joined the
Running With Ed effort, a
38-mile, 10-leg relay race
that criss-crosses the
Park City area.You can
run as an individual or as
members of teams. This
past May, 850 runners, 400 walkers, 300 volunteers, and most of Park City came out to
party and raise money for the Park City Education Foundation raising $157,000 Site
Grant for the Park City School District.

Right To Play
Right to Play evolved from Olympic Aid, a program initiated at the 1994 Lillehammer
Olympics. Founded in 2000 by three-time Olympic gold medal winning Norwegian speed
skater Johann Olav Koss, Right To Play launched its first programs in 2001 in Ivory Coast
and Angola with the mission to use sport and play to educate and empower children
across the world. Right To Play now operates in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa,
the Middle East and Latin
America. In 2012, Right To
Play reached one million
children through its weekly
programs. Right To Play is
starting pilot programs in
certain areas in the United
States, the Bronx being
one, where children need
the same opportunity to
learn and love to play.
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