Heart Run 2008

Members of the 569th, 786th and 435th security forces will join local
national police members May 11 in the annual heart run, a charity run to raise money for the Rwanda National Refugee Hospitals.

The Soroptimist International Club Kaiserslautern sponsors the annual run, considered as a solidarity event regarding the annual peace marathon of SI in Kigali, Rwanda.

The run is either 5.5 or 10 kilometers long. It’s for runners, walkers and Nordic-walkers. It will start at 10 a.m. at Beilsteinschule in Kaiserslautern, Velmannstrasse 13. The starting fee is €5 for adults and €3 for children.

“I began coordinating with the 786th and 569th SFS to pull together all the local USAF security forces members to represent the Air Force with a decent turn out,” said 1st Lt. Patrick Gordon, 435th SFS logistics officer. “The response was phenomenal. What started as a group of four to five senior NCOs has turned into more than 40 Airmen, Soldiers and civilians.”

For more information and to register, call Lieutenant Gordon at 478-2148. Interested participants should visit www.soroptimist-kl.de/prjeckt01/index.php?idcat=18, or Google Herzenslauf 2008 and click “Translate this page.”