By James Day
The annual Homer Classic run/walk is set for 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 4.
The event, which benefits track and field and cross country programs at Silverton and Kennedy high schools, include an 8-kilometer run and a 2-mile run-walk.
Both races start and finish on the track at the Silverton Schlador Street campus. The courses are flat and paved, with the 8K including a pass through the Gallon House covered bridge. Fruit and Mexican pastries will be available at the finish line.
Ribbons will be presented to the top three finishers in each of the 15 age group categories of the 8K as well as the top 10 overall runners in the 2-mile event. Overall male, female and masters winners in the 8K event receive trophies. All runners are automatically entered in a drawing for prizes that will be awarded after the races.
Registration costs $27 with a technical T-shirt and $15 without a shirt. Race-day signups from 7:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. are $20 and T-shirts, if available, are $15. Online registration is available through July 31 at www.racenorthwest.com.
For information contact Steve Ritchie of the Silverton Runners Club at or 503-845-1801.
In other sports happenings:
OSAA: Silverton likely will lose one regular opponent and pick up a new one if the Oregon School Activities Association’s current reclassification plan continues to hold favor.
The Foxes will continue to compete in Class 5A in the Mid-Willamette Conference, but West Albany looks like it is headed up to Class 6A, where it will join the Central Valley Conference and play against the six Salem public schools: McKay, McNary, Sprague, North Salem, South Salem and West Salem. The Bulldogs would be replaced by Central, which would be moving up from Class 4A. Central, with an enrollment of 734, barely meets the minimum for Class 5A, which has a range of 710-1,259. Central officials petitioned to be allowed to remain at Class 4A, but the redistricting committee chose to hold firm on its enrollment lines at its May 20 meeting.
The rest of the Mid-Willamette will remain the same, with Corvallis, Crescent Valley, Woodburn, Dallas, Lebanon and South Albany joining Silverton and Central.
In Class 2A (enrollment 90-190) Kennedy High would remain in the Tri-River Conference, but there will be some new opponents for the Trojans to face. The league would add Perrydale and St. Paul from Class 1A plus East Linn Christian, Western Mennonite and Sheridan while losing Central Linn, Culver, Toledo and Waldport. Regis and Santiam would remain with Kennedy as the only Tri-River holdovers. The league will be more compact geographically and Kennedy players and fans likely won’t miss the road trips to Waldport (235 miles round trip) and Culver (300 miles).
The final committee meeting to consider the new conference alignments is at 9 a.m. Sept. 23 at the OSAA office in Wilsonville. The plan then goes to the OSAA’s executive board and delegate assembly. The new structure takes effect in the 2014-15 school year.
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