Record-setting run raises $77,000

 

NO HOLDING BACK—Kids concentrate on speed during the kids race at Mitchell’s Run Thru Rockford Saturday. The event raised an amazing $77,000 for Project Parent Muscular Dystrophy. Photo by Tom Scott

Going and growing 

Mitchell’s Run Thru Rockford enjoyed another amazingly succesful event this year, with 1,800 runners participating and raising $77,000. In its eleventh year, the Run has donated over $600,000 to Project Parent Musucular Dystrophy in Mitchell Peterson’s name. Mitchell, 13, along with family and volunteers, has raised awareness of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.