Jamestown  (CSi)  Runnin O’ The Green organizer, Larry Knoblich is optimist that the 2018 40th Anniversary goal of raising $40,000 will be met.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, he said the day after the run, on Sunday  the preliminary amount raised was put at $26,000.

He said that with additional donations still to be tallied from bars gaming proceeds and individual contributions coming, in he feels confident those amounts will add up to $40,000.

He pointed out that on Saturday at the start of the run at Frontier Fort 731 registered, compared to 979 last year, which he feels is due to more pre-registrations, including 497 at Cork & Barrel Liquors, and 255 at Wildside creations, and pre-registration was held at the Elks.  He said 1780 participants registered this year.

On our show he noted other contributions coming in from donations made to rides given to participants with a free will donation.  He added that R.M. Stoudt provided two cars, and seven others with drivers, totaled nine cars.

The total donations from that estimated at $3,600, to add to the total.

Larry thanked the volunteers that make the run a success, plus hundreds of individual donations of various amounts adding to the total.

He remarked about how the bar owners and staff cleaned up debris from the streets.

Of the total raised $10,000 goes to cancer patients with the balance going to the Elks Camp Grassick, to benefit those individuals with both mental and physical challenges.