Sweet Home’s Hero Half Marathon, 8K (just over 5 miles) and 1.3-mile run on May 24 drew some 230 runners in what organizer Rachel Kittson-MaQatish descibed as an effort to “provide a safe place where families can try to heal and come together wtih others who have suffered a loss, and try to unite them together.” Kittson-MaQatish founded the event last year as a means to reach out to families of men and women who…
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