Slideshow: CHS Students Raise Over $5K at 5K

Current and future students, parents, grandparents, teachers, and various CHS supporters showed up with their running shoes and water bottles on Saturday to participate in the first-ever fun run/walk.

"This is a fabulous event," said Carlmont's principal Raul Zamora. 

"It's entirely student-generated, and what better way to put a stamp on education than students getting the community together? It sends a great message to the community that our students are involved, " said Zamora.

Zamora was referring to event's was organizers, the student-run club Carlmont Student Academic Foundation (CSAF). 

"We started the club this year because there have been a lot of budget cuts and we thought it was time the students started raising some money ourselves for important programs," said students Gianna Dimick and Lauren Denney.

Lauren's mom, Sue Denney, was pleased with the turn-out and the organization. "This was a great first event that was totally student-generated, from sponsors and publicity to race-day details and t-shirts," Denney said.

"We had a guy come out this morning because he read about the run on Belmont Patch and his three kids are Carlmont grads," said Tracey Fecher, a member of the CHS Academic Foundation. 

Denney said based on registration fees and sponsor donations, group was expecting to raise more than $5,000. 

Major sponsors included , the Shackelton Family, and Flipgigs.com. 

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