Calling all trotters!
It’s that time of year again to start training and getting your sponsors for the Peace Trot! The 9th annual Peter De Mott Peace Trot 5K and 1mile run will be held on Father’s Day, June 17, 2018.
But this year it will be held at a whole NEW VENUE, Cass Park. This could be the FASTEST Peace Trot, yet! Why? No hills!! Come enjoy the new course along the inlet trail, then the NYS Parks wooded lake trail behind the Marina and back to the pavilion at the children’s garden.
We will still have gate chip timing, great and creative prizes, a t-shirt for every registrant, and a great time whether you run, trot, gently jog, walk, stroll, roll or crawl!
Each year we hold this event in honor of Peter, who dedicated his life to the work of peace and justice. In 2002 Peter wrote a chapter called Finding My Way in a book called From Warrior to Resister. In the piece, Peter recounts his journey from serving in the Marines and the Army to becoming a peace activist. He sites the Catholic Worker movement as instrumental in his transformation. He wrote, “The Catholic Worker taught me many things I’d never heard before: pacifism, nonviolence, voluntary poverty, personal responsibility for contemporary injustice, and service to Christ in the person of the victims of military and corporate violence and greed.”
The Peace Trot is a fundraiser for the work of the Ithaca Catholic Worker, of which Peter was a founding member. This year our goal is to raise $12,000. We think we can reach this goal with your help. Money raised by the Peace Trot supports the following activities of the Ithaca Catholic Worker:
We would like to encourage all participants of the Trot to consider asking other folks to sponsor them in the peace trot. Sponsorship is key to our fundraising efforts so please consider asking at least 10 different people to sponsor you for $10 each to add up to $100. We think with this kind of effort we can reach our fundraising goal. Thank you in advance for helping us by finding sponsors. We have enclosed a sponsorship form with the hope you use it to document your sponsors and their pledges to your Peace Trot effort.
One last thing, don’t forget to pre-register!
Peace and in training for the Trot,
Ellen Grady, for the Peace Trot Committee (Tom Joyce, Leslie Schultz, Dan and Linda Finlay, KC and Matt Ryan, Garry and Connie Thomas, Amelia Kaufman
PS. A Day without Sweat is a Day to Regret
PPS. Move the Feet and the Body Follows
PPPS. A Day without Perspiration is a Day for Self Recrimination
PPPPS. The Hurrier I Go, The Behinder I Go
It’s that time of year again to start training and getting your sponsors for the Peace Trot! The 9th annual Peter De Mott Peace Trot 5K and 1mile run will be held on Father’s Day, June 17, 2018.
But this year it will be held at a whole NEW VENUE, Cass Park. This could be the FASTEST Peace Trot, yet! Why? No hills!! Come enjoy the new course along the inlet trail, then the NYS Parks wooded lake trail behind the Marina and back to the pavilion at the children’s garden.
We will still have gate chip timing, great and creative prizes, a t-shirt for every registrant, and a great time whether you run, trot, gently jog, walk, stroll, roll or crawl!
Each year we hold this event in honor of Peter, who dedicated his life to the work of peace and justice. In 2002 Peter wrote a chapter called Finding My Way in a book called From Warrior to Resister. In the piece, Peter recounts his journey from serving in the Marines and the Army to becoming a peace activist. He sites the Catholic Worker movement as instrumental in his transformation. He wrote, “The Catholic Worker taught me many things I’d never heard before: pacifism, nonviolence, voluntary poverty, personal responsibility for contemporary injustice, and service to Christ in the person of the victims of military and corporate violence and greed.”
The Peace Trot is a fundraiser for the work of the Ithaca Catholic Worker, of which Peter was a founding member. This year our goal is to raise $12,000. We think we can reach this goal with your help. Money raised by the Peace Trot supports the following activities of the Ithaca Catholic Worker:
- Maintenance and upkeep of the Catholic Worker house at 411 S. Plain Street
- Holding weekly meetings that build community around the themes of peacemaking and opposition to militarism
- Providing hospitality to those needing temporary housing
- Providing financial support for those needing help
- Opposing war and the use of drones, especially those deployed from Hancock Air Base near Syracuse NY, which indiscriminately attack communities around the world
- Joining others in the community of anti-racist work
- Supporting the latest Plowshares action at the Trident Nuclear Submarine Base in Georgia in which, Ithaca Catholic Worker, Clare Grady is a member
- Holding our elected officials accountable in various ways to include sit-ins at Tom Reeds office
We would like to encourage all participants of the Trot to consider asking other folks to sponsor them in the peace trot. Sponsorship is key to our fundraising efforts so please consider asking at least 10 different people to sponsor you for $10 each to add up to $100. We think with this kind of effort we can reach our fundraising goal. Thank you in advance for helping us by finding sponsors. We have enclosed a sponsorship form with the hope you use it to document your sponsors and their pledges to your Peace Trot effort.
One last thing, don’t forget to pre-register!
Peace and in training for the Trot,
Ellen Grady, for the Peace Trot Committee (Tom Joyce, Leslie Schultz, Dan and Linda Finlay, KC and Matt Ryan, Garry and Connie Thomas, Amelia Kaufman
PS. A Day without Sweat is a Day to Regret
PPS. Move the Feet and the Body Follows
PPPS. A Day without Perspiration is a Day for Self Recrimination
PPPPS. The Hurrier I Go, The Behinder I Go
