The Marshall County Commissioners and the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety have both given permission for a 5K race to benefit Dustin’s Place.
Dustin’s Place Co-Founder Viki Brown approached the Plymouth board members last week asking to use several roads to hold the race including Lincoln Highway, Pennsylvania, Liberty, Laporte, and a neighboring housing division. The event is planned for Saturday, April 18 at 8 a.m.
Reserve officers from the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department will help with traffic control as runners come to intersections. Plymouth Police Chief David Bacon told the Plymouth Board of Public Works and Safety members that he didn’t have any issues with the request.
Brown said Dustin’s Place is at 11802 Lincoln Highway and is a not-for-profit children and adult grief center.
“Starting January 6th, we will offer peer support groups for children between the ages of five and eighteen years old for children that have experienced the death of a parent or a sibling, but also extend it out to friends or grandparents,” explained Brown. “The adult members will also be able to heal who are experiencing the death of a loved one.”
The children’s peer support groups will be broken up into age brackets.
Brown said Dustin’s Place in Plymouth is the fourth children’s grief center in the State of Indiana.
The center opens on Monday, Jan. 6, according to Brown.
“We’ll offer dinner from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the families and the groups will meet from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Everything is 100 percent free of charge. We will never charge a person to walk through our door. We won’t even have donation buckets at Dustin’s Place because we don’t want the pressure of finances to ever withhold people from coming to experience a grief support group.”
For more information, visit www.dustinsplace.org.
