{"id":266594,"date":"2026-08-16T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266594\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:42:07","slug":"sam-would-be-proud-18-years-later-reading-community-still-runs-for-samuel-reed-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266594\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sam would be proud\u2019:\u00a018 years later, Reading community still runs for Samuel Reed | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Runners and walkers hit the trails for another year in Berks County earlier this morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was all for the 18th annual Run4Sam race that honors the life of Samuel Reed.<\/p>\n<p>Sam was a sophomore at the University of Pittsburgh when he was tragically killed by a drunk driver in a hit-and-run accident.<\/p>\n<p>A former cross-country runner at Schuylkill Valley High School, running was one of Sam&#8217;s passions.<\/p>\n<p>The run is held at Grings Mill Park because it was his favorite place to run and clear his mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every step that everybody takes, whether they&#8217;re a runner or walker or spectator helps to give back to the community. It&#8217;s become really important for us to support local charities too&#8230; Sam would be proud,\u201d says Peggy Reed, president of Run4Sam Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from the race are given back to the community, including a scholarship each year.<\/p>\n<p>Donations also go back to the park and several local charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Runners and walkers hit the trails for another year in Berks County earlier this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,112467,2347,112468,112466,8589,128,130,129,112464,112465,9746,2553],"class_list":["post-266594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-charity-race","tag-community-support","tag-drunk-driving-awareness","tag-grings-mill-park","tag-memorial","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-run-4-sam","tag-samuel-reed","tag-scholarship","tag-university-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}