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Still time to sign up for QWFC

Help celebrate 20 years of Quesnel Women's Fall Challenge and still running
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Brenda Beatty

If there ever was a best year to participate in the Quesnel Women’s Fall Challenge, it’s this year, the 20th anniversary of this event. Did you enter a few years ago, but not since? Have you always thought about it but never actually entered? Do you have someone in your life that is battling breast cancer, has won the battle or tragically lost their battle?

Then this is the year to step up.

Already registrations have exceeded this time last year and as of Monday there are 537 women ready to put foot to pavement to raise money for the G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital mammography unit.

To date, the QWFC has raise $175,000 and provided funding for several improvements and additions to the unit.

This year, QWFC will add the proceeds to the trust fund for a very costly digital mammography reading machine.

There is still plenty of time to register; the cost is $30 until 6 p.m., Oct. 4 and forms are available and accepted at the Quesnel and District Arts and Recreation Centre.

There are also a few lunch tickets still available, so if you registered already but didn’t commit to lunch and you would like to, just drop by the Arts and Rec Centre, pay the $15 and advise them you’ve already registered for the main event.

Also, while you’re there, merchandise is still available as well, so take a look and see what you’d like to purchase as a memento of this memorable Women’s Fall Challenge.

Once you’ve registered, it’s important to pick up your race package, again at the Arts and Rec Centre on Saturday between 3 – 6 p.m.

Remember to bring cash with you as there are terrific silent auction items to bid on and bucket draws.

Each year, as the numbers grow, parking is at a premium at the race start at the Dragon Lake boat launch and organizers are urging women to car pool to the event as much as possible.

This year’s grand prize, an Electra Cruiser, three-speed bicycle, valued at $650, was secured thanks, in part, to Cycle Logic/Rocky Peak Adventure Gear and will go to one lucky participant. The draw takes place at the lunch in the CNC/UNBC atrium. Many other great prizes will also be distributed, so make sure you’re there. The QWFC will also be giving away many other great prizes to lucky lunch attendees.

One change this year is the start time of the half-marathon. Racers for that portion start from the boat launch at 8:30 a.m., while 5 and 10 K walkers and runners begin promptly

at 9 a.m. from the boat launch.

In honour of the 20th running of this event, there will be birthday cake at Race Package Pickup at the Arts and Rec Centre and at the lunch, post race.

For fun, there’s a trivia contest along the 5km

route and decorations on the timing apparatus.

In the organizers most ambitious dreams, there will be more than 700 women all participating in this 20th Quesnel Women’s Fall Challenge – all you have to do is sign up.