The event is this Saturday, March 7 at Whataburger Field. Run, walk, or join the fun \u2014 a family-friendly event!<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Goodwill Industries of South Texas is celebrating 39 years of helping local residents through the power of work with its annual 5K and 2-Mile Walk this Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The event is open to participants of all ages and aims to raise funds for Goodwill\u2019s free job training and placement services.<\/p>\n
Dr. Amanda Garcia from Goodwill Industries of South Texas said, \u201cMany people don\u2019t know that we are a nonprofit. Every time you make a donation and we sell that donation, those funds go directly to our free job training and free job placement services. All the money we collect goes 100% back to these programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The race kicks off at 8 a.m., but participants can arrive earlier to enjoy a vendor village opening at 7 a.m., featuring wellness and health partners, coffee from Tom\u2019s Coffee, snow cones, and other fun activities at Whataburger Field, located at 734 E. Port Ave.<\/p>\n
This year, a new costume contest has\u00a0been added, giving participants a chance to show off creativity while supporting a good cause.<\/p>\n
The event includes both a run and a walk, encouraging families, schools, and community groups to participate together. Schools can register for free if students bring donations, and awards will\u00a0be presented\u00a0to\u00a0those\u00a0bringing\u00a0the most participants. \u201cIt\u2019s a great way to celebrate wellness in our community and uplift those around us,\u201d Dr. Garcia added.<\/p>\n
For more information or to register, visit\u00a0GoodwillSouthTexas.com<\/a> or click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event is this Saturday, March 7 at Whataburger Field. Run, walk, or join the fun \u2014 a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-187180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}