ESTEVAN — The Estevan Police Association (EPA) has brought back an event in an effort to raise funds for the community.
The Max-Fun Colour Run is a five-kilometre run-walk that will occur on June 11 at Woodlawn Regional Park. Participants will be doused with different colours at stations inside the park. People can register until the night before, and anybody who registers now will get a swag bag but not a t-shirt, as the shirt order has been placed already.
The event will start at 10:30 a.m.
"There will be five stations with a different colour at each station, and there will be a group of volunteers there who will douse the people as they go through the stations," said Sgt. Kevin Reed, who is the president of the association.
The EPS hasn't been able to have the event since 2019, and they're looking forward to offering a fun activity for the community.
"When we first started [hosting this] in 2019, it was our intention just to have another event in the community in the summer for people to get out, and continue to do it every year," said Reed.
He hopes there is an appetite in the community to have this event happen once again.
Fifty-one people had registered as of Monday morning. People can register at www.runningroom.com.
The association hasn't decided on where the funds will be directed. It has supported a couple of initiatives in recent years, such as a bursary for a high school student who will be studying social justice, and it has backed youth curling at the Power Dodge Curling Centre.
The last colour run in 2019 raised $1,700 for Southeast Saskatchewan Search and Rescue, and the EPA hopes they can surpass that total this year.
