Ringgold Rotary’s Fall Back 5k Set For Nov. 3

Saturday, October 20, 2012

The Ringgold Rotary Club will be hosting the 2012 Fall Back 5k and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk on Nov. 3.  All proceeds will help provide support for the Ringgold Rotary Club’s initiatives throughout the community and to help rebuild a portion of the Ringgold High School’s Athletic Stadium.

Following the storms that occurred on April 27, 2011, Ringgold High School’s Athletic Stadium suffered severe damage. A portion of the race proceeds will be donated to help rebuild the scoreboard area of the stadium. This new scoreboard will consist of a seating area built with the remains of the memorial that was already in place. 

The race will begin in the Ringgold High School parking lot at 8:30 a.m. Racers may register the morning of the race, or sign up on active.com.  

The race is sponsored by Ringgold Telephone Company, Patty & Young Attorneys at Law, Price Ringgold Drugs, Millennium Medical and Weight Loss Center, Coca-Cola, Northwest Georgia Bank, Simply Mail, Northwest Georgia Dentisry, Georgia Power, K-9 Tub Time, Chuck Tindell, Greased Light’n, mBellish Salon, Weeks & Peters Insurance, Randall Peters, Don Tindell, Inc., Wilson Funeral Home, Katherine Cox OD, DH&W, and Costco. 

Rotary is an organization of business, professional and community leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. The members of Ringgold Rotary Club represent a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women, as well as community leaders. The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. 




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