OEM Members To Honor Late Coordinator At Ramsey Run

Members of Ramsey’s Office of Emergency Management will be running in this weekend’s 35th Annual Jack McKeown Ramsey Run in honor of the organization’s late leader.

The Ramsey run, “is one of the main events that Ramsey OEM participates in each year; it is something that the late Mike Adams, past OEM Coordinator, really looked forward to,” current OEM Coordinator Ralph Venturini said in a release about the event.

OEM Deputy Coordinator Glen Karpovich will be running in the 10K race in Adams’ memory. “Mike would really be honored with this,” he said in the release. “He [supported] the run for years.”

The Office of Emergency Management, which coordinates public safety teams and responds to borough emergencies, helps put on the Ramsey Run each year. This year, the OEM will organize emergency communications at the run through its team of amateur radio operators, assist with traffic diversion and be there in the event of any medical emergency.

All OEM workers at the Run will be wearing a special sticker honoring Adams.

Put on by the Ramsey Recreation Commission, the Jack McKeown Ramsey Run this Saturday will offer both a 10K run, starting at 8 a.m., and a 5K run, starting at 9:45 a.m. All residents are invited to run the races. Awards will be given to participants in age groups ranging from 10 and under to 70-plus.

Those who register by Thursday at borough hall will pay $20 to register. On-site registration will also be available Saturday for $25. A portion of this year’s registration fee will go toward the Jack McKeown scholarship.

Get more information about the Ramsey Run in the flier attached to this article, or at .

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