Neighborhood Co-op Feed Your Neighbor 5K

🏃‍♂️ Race Overview

The Co-op Feed Your Neighbor 5K is a family-friendly event supporting the Good Samaritan House of Carbondale. The race will be held Friday, April 11, 2025.

🏞️ Course Details

Our 5K course is professionally certified: the course begins and ends at Turley Park on Old West Main and Glenview, Carbondale, IL. The route runs through the residential area behind the Murdale Shopping Center.

💰 Registration Fees

• Cost: Only $20 for adults and $10 for children 14 and under ($25 & $15 if you sign-up the day of the race.)
• Timing: This race is professionally timed.
• Course: Certified course.
• Participation: Participants can run or walk.

🕒 Race Day Information

• Start Point: 5K begins and ends at Turley Park, on Old West Main and Glenview.
• Registration: 4:30 pm registration opens for pre-registered and day of sign-ups.
• Start Time: Race promptly starts at 6 pm.
• Entertainment: Live music and family friendly atmosphere.

🏆 Prizes

• Overall Winners: Top overall female and male will win a $100 Co-op gift card!
• Age Category: Top male and female of each age category will be a bread winner.
• Door Prizes: Every participant will be entered for door prizes.
• Refreshments: Snacks and refreshments for participants.

🥫 Food Donations

Additionally we are asking participants to bring nonperishable food to give to the local food pantry.

🤝 About Good Samaritan House

Good Samaritan House of Carbondale serves a wide variety of people, including persons with mental and physical disabilities, families evicted from their homes, veterans with nowhere to go, and persons who have lost their jobs. They have an Emergency Assistance Program to assist clients in paying rent or utility bills to prevent them from becoming homeless. Good Samaritan House also assists in paying for prescriptions, work shoes/clothes, transportation to interviews, doctor appointments and more.

🎉 Supporting the Community

Since 1999, more than 2,000 race participants have been part of this great event, supporting Good Sam. Not a runner? Alternatively, you can help and not have to participate in the race. This year our goal is to have 200 people donate $10 each! Donations go directly to Good Samaritan and can be done online, see below.

🏠 Good Samaritan House Services

All proceeds will support Good Samaritan House of Carbondale, which provides a food pantry, soup kitchen, emergency shelter, transitional housing, and emergency assistance to the area’s most vulnerable citizens. All donations stay local! Good Samaritan provides:

• Emergency Services: Emergency Shelter or Transportation Services.
• Food Pantry: To offer food and commodities.
• Soup Kitchen: Provide balanced meals 3 times a day.
• Transitional Home: For those who need help making a smooth transition to living an independent life again.

🔗 Registration Link

For more information and to register, visit here.