Well, it was a blustery and rainy day for both the Rotary Run for Rwanda and for Bowfest! However, thanks to the weather gods and to many enthusiastic runners volunteers and participants, the run and the Bowfest parade went off in relatively good weather.
The kids’ run was very popular and turned out to be very competitive with nearly 50 runners, aged two to nine! First boy: Ryland Bentall; second: Colin Ritchie; third: Devon Ritchie. First girl: Freya Henrichsen; second: Arianna Lunn; third: Jordyn Gooch.
We had an impressive number of young runners in the other two runs, including Matthew Lunn, the youngest competitor in the 5K run at nine years of age. He clocked in at just over 29 minutes! The results with times are up on our website: rotaryrunforrwanda.com, and here are the prizewinners, in order of first, second, third:
10K men: James Collins, Colin Kerr, Yousef Mian
10K women: Callie Brougham, Alicia Hoppenrath, Jessica Slater
5K men: Geoffrey Llewicki, Nicholas Belluck, Tim Fowler.
5K women: Pam Matthews, Maureen Mackey, Scarlett Duntz
We at the Rotary Club of Bowen Island and Komera Canada are truly grateful to our sponsors who provided either financial or in-kind help: North Shore Athletics, Union Steamship Co., Ruddy Potato, Artisan Eats, McTaggart Water, Savary Island Pie Co., Paragon Financial, Frits de Vries Architects, Chuck Venhuizen, Barbara Wahler Interior Design, Bowen Island Properties, The Gym, Artisan Office Services, Ford Chilliwack, The Snug, Bowfest and the Undercurrent.
