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race site and back to the Ernest N.
Morial Convention Center; they can
then catch buses to their hotels.
The $30 race registration fee
includes a T-shirt and water bottle.
Runners will also receive breakfast at
the site, and there will be DJ enter-
tainment to pump up the crowd.
The top 3 male and female
finishers in each age category will be
recognized with medals.
Last year's Run for Sight in San
Diego drew 400 participants, and
Mr. Bell said they're hoping for an
even larger turnout this year. In
2015, a total of $65,000 was raised
to support the work of the ASCRS
Foundation.
"TearLab and Shire have been
generous supporters of the Run for
Sight, and all the funds go to help
the foundation's humanitarian work
in Ethiopia and here at home in
the U.S.," Mr. Bell said. "In 2015,
the foundation's Robert Sinskey Eye
Institute in Addis Ababa saw more
than 19,000 patient visits, and the
foundation's U.S.-based Operation
Sight network delivered more than
400 charitable cataract surgeries to
needy patients right in their own
communities."
Interested attendees can find
more information online at www.
tracs.net/ascrs5k. EW
Support a great cause and
burn off some of those
beignet calories
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or the fourth year in a
row, the ASCRS Foundation
is hosting a 5K run and
1-mile walk to benefit the
humanitarian work being
done by the foundation in Ethiopia
and the U.S.
The Run for Sight, cosponsored
by TearLab (San Diego) and Shire
(Lexington, Massachusetts), will start
and finish at the Audubon Aquari-
um of the Americas tomorrow, with
runners on their marks at 6:30 a.m.
The race course will take participants
through the park along the Missis-
sippi River and, for 5K runners, up
historic Esplanade Avenue.
"The ASCRS Foundation Run
for Sight is a fun way to balance out
all that great eating in New Orleans
with some exercise—and at the same
time help a great cause," said Don
Bell, ASCRS chief operating officer.
"Runners of all ages and abilities
turn out."
Mr. Bell went on to note that
the course is flat and scenic, and
with the race taking place at an early
hour, it "allows folks to shower,
change, and get back to the meeting
without missing anything."
Buses will be available to shuttle
participants from their hotels to the
by Liz Hillman EyeWorld Staff Writer
2016 Run for Sight set
along scenic Mississippi
River in New Orleans
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