The Amity Township Lions Club presents the ‘mane’ event of running season….The Fight for Sight Run will be held during Community Days weekend on Saturday, Sept. 6 The 5K will begin at 8 a.m. and the Lion Cub Fun Run will begin at 9:10 a.m. This family-friendly event starts at the Visitors Center of the Daniel Boone Homestead. Ample parking is available and walkers are welcome.
The 5K course will bring runners through the historic and gentle rolling countryside of the boyhood home of Daniel Boone during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Runners are encouraged to donate used eyeglasses to the Lions Club’s Recycle for Sight program to receive a door prize ticket. The program gives new life to visually impaired people around the world.
All pre-registered participants will receive a race T-shirt, and all children participating in the Lion Cub Fun Run will receive a box of animal crackers. Race-day registrants will receive T-Shirts while supplies last.
Awards will be presented to the overall male and female winners, along with first, second, and third place winners in six age categories. Awards and door prizes
will be distributed at the conclusion of the event.
Registration is available online at www.runccrs.
The Lion Cub Fun Run is free. This is a rain or shine event.
The event benefits the Amity Township Lions Club, which supports the Amity and Monarch Fire Companies, purchases eye glasses for needy students, lends medical equipment, helps support Diabetes Awareness, Beacon Lodge Camp for the Blind, Delaware Valley Eye Bank, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Berks County Vision Resource Center, and Boone Area Library. While visiting the Daniel Boone Homestead, be sure to visit the Amity Township Lions Club’s Sensory Trail for the vision impaired.
For more information, please contact Charles ‘Skip’ Snyder, Amity Township Lions Club President at cesnyders@gmail.com or 610-223-5968.
