RUNNING BUDDIES

The LHS Best Buddies Color Fun Run is set for its second annual event. Check-in occurs at 9 a.m. and lasts until five minutes before the 9:30 a.m. race April 13. Registration is $5 and goes to raise funds for the Best Buddies local chapter and Best Buddies International. A T-shirt is also available for $10. Payments are accepted at Home Grown, The Bull Shack and Livingston Fitness Center. The first event held in 2023 began in the Livingston High School parking lot, and the one-mile run will start the same this year. The community is invited to celebrate all things inclusion. Best Buddies is the world’s largest organization dedicated to ending the social, physical, and economic isolation of the 200 million people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The program empowers the special abilities of people with IDD by helping form meaningful friendships with peers, secure successful jobs, live independently, improve public speaking, self-advocacy and communication skills, and feel valued by society. The Livingston High School Best Buddies chapter was created in the fall of 2021. Courtesy photo