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Walnut Run/Walk for ALS set for July 6

Registration is available online

WALNUT - This year’s Walnut Run/Walk for ALS will be held Saturday, July 6.

Registration is available online at https://runsignup.com/walnut5kforals. Registration fees are $20 by Friday, June 28 and $25 after, including race day. T-shirt deadline is June 28.

There will be payments of $100 to the first-place finisher, $75 to second, and $50 to third place overall.

All proceeds will benefit ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) research.

Co-chair Brad Monier said they had a record number of entries last year with 541 participants and “looking to build on that.”

The event could get a boost with the Walnut High School Super Reunion being held that weekend as well.

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL