It'll Be an 'Amazing' Night and Race

“One Amazing Night” will include “The Amazing Race” this year. And some bull-riding, too.

The annual Barrington Middle School event to welcome next year’s sixth-graders to the school runs Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. A definite highlight of the PTO-sponsored evening will be Barrington’s version of the CBS reality-TV game show in which teams race around the world competing against other teams for prize money.

The middle school’s “Amazing Race” involves teams of four students and a driver age 21 or older.

“Team uniforms are expected,” said Deb Sullivan, race coordinator. See the photo of winners from the previous race, the Green Hornets.

The race teams must collaborate to solve clues, complete tasks, face roadblocks, think creatively and have fun while racing (within the speed limits) around Barrington, said Sullivan.

“Seven stops make up the race this year,” Sullivan said.

Teams will be sent off in waves, she said. The winning team must solve all the clues and record the best time.

To sign up, students must register as a team. The deadline for registering is the end of the day tomorrow, May 15. Go on the Barrington Public Schools website for the registration form.

The cost is $20 per person or $100 per team. There is prize money, of course.

Check-in time for race participants is 3:45 pm. The race will begin at 4:15 pm sharp. It ends at 6:15 pm. For more information, contact Deb Sullivan at sullybton@gmail.com.

While the amazing racers are running around town, everyone else at “One Amazing Night” will be enjoying food at a chuck wagon; learning all about programs at the school, including French, enrichment, robotics, art, and hero posters; listening to the jazz band and the chorus; playing some games in the gym, and -- did we say -- bull riding.

Yes, said Sullivan, a mechanical bull will offer anyone who wants to donate $2 a ride like none they may have ever experienced before.

You better start lining up for a ride today.