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Show SUSC students initiate fund event for March of Dimes among the media will notify your community when the Marathon canvass crews will be in your area. These volunteers will be identified by an official badge, and you may pledge or donate whatever amount is comfortable. The Marathon entourage hopes to graphically inspire you to realize that while some can experience the challenge of near impossible achievement, others are held back by birth defects. Money is needed to finance research to provide solutions and answers. Many high schools in the state have indicated an interest in this worthy cause. Emery County High School and Carbon High School will run over 100 miles to Thilstle, Utah. Kanab High School students will run a simultaneous marathon to the Long Valley Junction where they will link up with the SUSC students. Other high schools participating in the Southern Utah Marathon include North and Seveir High Schools, along with Richfield High School. Other high schools are presently organizing to participate. Men and women will run and will make what will be a tremendous sacrifice to raise money so others may have the opportunity to know what it is like to be able to live normal lives. Please give what you can. "We Are Running for Those Who Can't." So reads the theme of the Southern Utah March of Dimes Marathon to be held January 30 through February 2. The Marathon is being run in conjunction with the March of Dimes Telerama in the Salt Lake City Salt Palace. Forty runners, students at SUSC, Cedar City, Utah, will participate in the fund raising event. Each runner could run as many as 10 miles through whatever the environment has to offer. The Marathon, an effort to raise funds for the March of Dimes fight against birth defects, began today, January 30 as Cedar City Mayor Kerry Jones fired the starting pistol. The run will take fund raisers, participants, and support people up Cedar Canyon along U14 through the Dixie National Forest to U. S. 89. From Panguitch, the runners and procession will continue up U.S. 89 to Mount Pleasant, through Provo and Pleasant Grove to Salt Lake City. The Marathon will conclude triumphantly at the March of Dimes Telerama in the Salt Palace. As the runners, students from all walks of life, face an almost insurmountable trek, over 200 high school and college students will canvass each city through which the Marathon entourage passes. Extensive cooperation '-, I ' - : -- - MARATHON BEGINS TODAY. Students from Southern Utah State College are shown in practice for the March of Dimes Marathon which got underway today. The event will culminate Saturday in Salt Lake City as a part of the March of Dimes Telerama. Forty runners w ill participate w ith each runner to run as many as 10 miles. |