Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot
5k race benefits the Downingtown West track team, Cure4Cam
DOWNINGTOWN » The 13th Annual Chester County Turkey Trot, hosted by the Downingtown West cross country team, is set for Thanksgiving Day.
The a 5K Run/ 1 Mile Walk/ Kids Fun Run on Thursday, Nov. 27 starts at 8 a.m. at Downingtown West High School at 445 Manor Avenue.
The race is hosted by the Downingtown West High School cross country team, and benefits the team as well as the Cure4Cam Childhood Cancer Foundation. According to its mission statement, Cure4Cam Childhood Cancer Foundation seeks to raise community awareness about, and supports the development of, new and more humane therapies for childhood cancer.
The foundation is a non-profit organization founded by family and friends in memory Cameron Evans. He was a teammate and friend who lost his battle with leukemia in May 2012. Teammates and others said Evans was a gifted athlete and a compassionate, positive, and inspiring young man.
“His perseverance and spirit touched all of us,” event organizers said in a news release.
The event is one of the largest races in Chester County. Last year there were roughly 2,400 registered runners and walkers. Event
organizers said they expect the numbers to grow this year. T-shirts are guaranteed to the first 2,000 registered runners.
The race is $30. The kid’s dash is $10.
Event organizers said that this year the race will begin on Manor Avenue to provide for a wider and less constricting starting place. The course starts at Downingtown West High School and finishes inside of Kottmeyer Stadium.
The route will close off traffic on Manor Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue and Rock Raymond Road from about 7:50 – 9:15 a.m. An award ceremony is expected to begin at 9:15 a.m. The student athletes will make about 100 pies to use as prizes in addition to volunteering at the event.
For more information, visit www.chestercountyturkeytrot.com.
The course starts at Downingtown West High School and finishes inside of Kottmeyer Stadium.
In a text message to one college sub-dealer Scott wrote, “If you find other people to buy ill hook you up with a front. Just gotta make the drive worth my while,” according to court papers.
Text messages recovered during the investigation revealed Scott gave Brooks “business advice” on how to expand the sale of marijuana in local high schools, detectives said.
Scott: “Just have to find the right people. And don’t rush it. Everything has a way of falling into line.”
Brooks: “Yeah, the question is, can I find the right guy that can run that operation.”
Scott: “There is always someone can do it, or two people.”
Brooks: “Two is prolly (sic) better anyway so they don’t want more a week at a higher discount.”
In February 2014, Scott sent one of his college subdealers a series of threatening text messages in order to collect payment for a quarter-pound of pot he sold to the sub-dealer on credit, detectives said.
“You have a thousand dollar bounty on your head, I will find you. Piece of (expletive), heard you ripped off more people on your campus,” Scott wrote, according to court documents.