Annual Flag Day 5K Run And Fun Walk To Be Held June 14

BASKING RIDGE, NJ – The 17th annual Flag Day 5K Run and Fun Walk will be held on Thursday evening, June 14 at the Lyons VA Campus of the NJ VA Healthcare System at Valley and Knollcroft Roads in the Lyons section of Bernards Township.

Proceeds benefit Community Hope’s Hope for Veterans Programs that will rescue more than 1,500 homeless and wounded veterans and their families struggling with homelessness this year.

The race will kick off at 7 p.m. at the nonprofit organization’s Valley Brook Village, built on the Lyons campus in 2013 to house disabled and homeless veterans.

Community Hope serves homeless veterans and at-risk veteran families. The nonprofit organization has helped more than 5,000 veterans overcome poverty, despair, mental illness and addiction since opening their first veterans program in 2004. Through Community Hope’s umbrella of Hope for Veterans Programs, the nonprofit provides veterans with transitional housing; permanent supportive housing; rapid re-housing and homelessness prevention.

Online registration is open at www.hopeforveterans.org/5k for runner and walker registration, forming teams or peer-to-peer fundraising in support of our veterans. Online registration closes at noon on June 13 and day-of-registration opens at 5 p.m. on June 14.

The pre-registration cost to run is $25 or $23 for USTF members, day-of race registration is $30. Registration for walkers is $15. Pre-registered participants will receive a runners shirt. Trophies will be awarded to the top teams and medals will be given to the top three male and female finishers in various age groups.

The course is USATF sanctioned and a Course Marshal will be overseeing the race course and course volunteers. Runners secure 500 points for participating.

For more information, contact the Community Hope Development Office at 973-463-9600 extension 308.

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