MARQUETTE, MI-- The Student Nurses Association of Northern Michigan University is running for a cause.
Students are holding a Run for Shelter 5k Run/Walk Saturday on campus. Race coordinator Sally Keskey says all proceeds from the event will be donated to Room at the Inn, a traveling homeless shelter run by 13 churches in the Marquette area. She says those who gather at the Agape Café’ can be taken by bus to whichever church is hosting on a particular night.
Keskey says she hopes the money raised will go toward a new warming shelter being built by the Freedom gas station.
“Right now the guests go from the churches to the Agape Café, which is near the library,” she says, “but they can only stay there until about 8 or 10 o’clock in the morning, so after that they don’t have anywhere to go. And it’s been very cold and just awful weather, so we’re hoping this will give them a place to stay on those really bad days, weather-wise.”
Run for Shelter takes place Saturday at NMU’s University Center. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. and the race itself at 9 a.m.
For more information call 906-399-5914.
