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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Incline and Crystal Bay's traditional I-CAN Run “in support of youth activities” 5K & 10K run/walk event is scheduled for Sept. 3 at the Incline High School track.
An art contest, organized by Incline Middle School teacher Mary Gilbert, will award $100 to the T-Shirt Art contest winner. All designs must be submitted to Lake Tahoe School or Incline elementary, middle or high school office by May 20. The winning art will be featured on the event T-shirts, posters and flyers. Art contest rules are available at www.i-canrun.org. The art contest theme is “I Can Do Anything.”
Mrs. Gilbert, the traditional organizer of the art contest, contacted Tahoe Family Solutions about the contest and learned that TFS was looking for a new organizer for the event that started 28 years ago as a way to get the community together to raise awareness and funding for positive youth activities. Mrs. Gilbert lived in Incline when I-CAN started, raised her family there and participated in the event all of those 28 years. Having worked at Incline Middle School for many years, she knew of an organization that was all about helping students stay active with positive choices after school and helped the I-CAN event transition to the Incline After-School Organization (IAO) over the past few weeks.
Because this community event is so meaningful to so many families, many past organizers and volunteers have rushed to offer assistance in the weeks since planning began to make sure the event is a success. The input was invaluable. Since it's only a couple of months away from the end of the school year, the only possible date for the 28th I-CAN event became the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. That's the second weekend of the 2011-'12 school year, which is the beginning of cross-country season and exactly one week after the National XTERRA triathlon.
IAO provides free, positive, adult-coached activities to all local youth as alternative choices to TV, video gaming and dangerous experimenting. More than 700 local youth participate in one or more activity each year, and almost all have participated in one or more free activity since kindergarten. Most of the 65 coaches are teachers, parents or professional coaches, but some are high school students coaching younger students as part of their mentoring activity.
IAO, in collaboration with Waste Not, provided the organization for the X-Stream Clean event that for five years taught local youth and adults that if 1,000 people invest one hour each, they can accomplish tons, or in the case of the X-Stream Clean, they removed more than 15 tons of litter from Incline's beaches, streams, streets and forests over the five-year event.
In celebration of this past collaboration, Waste Not has joined the I-CAN team and will create an opportunity for entrants to receive a pedometer for measuring walking distance, which they can keep and use at the I-CAN event to create their own 5K course and clean while they walk. Waste-Not will provide all the necessary clean-up supplies and be on hand to make this year's I-CAN a zero-waste event.
With an art theme of “I can do anything,” it occurred to organizers that this year's event shouldn't just be a run and walk. It should also encourage those who use wheels for mobility to participate in an event with a “no-limits” theme, so this event is officially the I-CAN Run, Walk and Roll 5K & 10K event and the course is being designed to have no limits for anyone who wants to enter. This was pleasing to organizers and as the words “walk and roll” got tossed around the idea of providing “rock ‘n' roll” entertainment at the high school during and after the event was born.
For more information about the 28th annual I-CAN Run, Walk and Roll 5K & 10K — including how to be a sponsor — go to www.i-canrun.org or call 775-745-6484.
An art contest, organized by Incline Middle School teacher Mary Gilbert, will award $100 to the T-Shirt Art contest winner. All designs must be submitted to Lake Tahoe School or Incline elementary, middle or high school office by May 20. The winning art will be featured on the event T-shirts, posters and flyers. Art contest rules are available at www.i-canrun.org. The art contest theme is “I Can Do Anything.”
Mrs. Gilbert, the traditional organizer of the art contest, contacted Tahoe Family Solutions about the contest and learned that TFS was looking for a new organizer for the event that started 28 years ago as a way to get the community together to raise awareness and funding for positive youth activities. Mrs. Gilbert lived in Incline when I-CAN started, raised her family there and participated in the event all of those 28 years. Having worked at Incline Middle School for many years, she knew of an organization that was all about helping students stay active with positive choices after school and helped the I-CAN event transition to the Incline After-School Organization (IAO) over the past few weeks.
Because this community event is so meaningful to so many families, many past organizers and volunteers have rushed to offer assistance in the weeks since planning began to make sure the event is a success. The input was invaluable. Since it's only a couple of months away from the end of the school year, the only possible date for the 28th I-CAN event became the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. That's the second weekend of the 2011-'12 school year, which is the beginning of cross-country season and exactly one week after the National XTERRA triathlon.
IAO provides free, positive, adult-coached activities to all local youth as alternative choices to TV, video gaming and dangerous experimenting. More than 700 local youth participate in one or more activity each year, and almost all have participated in one or more free activity since kindergarten. Most of the 65 coaches are teachers, parents or professional coaches, but some are high school students coaching younger students as part of their mentoring activity.
IAO, in collaboration with Waste Not, provided the organization for the X-Stream Clean event that for five years taught local youth and adults that if 1,000 people invest one hour each, they can accomplish tons, or in the case of the X-Stream Clean, they removed more than 15 tons of litter from Incline's beaches, streams, streets and forests over the five-year event.
In celebration of this past collaboration, Waste Not has joined the I-CAN team and will create an opportunity for entrants to receive a pedometer for measuring walking distance, which they can keep and use at the I-CAN event to create their own 5K course and clean while they walk. Waste-Not will provide all the necessary clean-up supplies and be on hand to make this year's I-CAN a zero-waste event.
With an art theme of “I can do anything,” it occurred to organizers that this year's event shouldn't just be a run and walk. It should also encourage those who use wheels for mobility to participate in an event with a “no-limits” theme, so this event is officially the I-CAN Run, Walk and Roll 5K & 10K event and the course is being designed to have no limits for anyone who wants to enter. This was pleasing to organizers and as the words “walk and roll” got tossed around the idea of providing “rock ‘n' roll” entertainment at the high school during and after the event was born.
For more information about the 28th annual I-CAN Run, Walk and Roll 5K & 10K — including how to be a sponsor — go to www.i-canrun.org or call 775-745-6484.
