Winnipeg Police Service News Release:

Friday, April 29, 2011  WINNIPEG POLICE SERVICE 7TH ANNUAL HALF MARATHON IN SUPPORT OF COPS FOR CANCER     On May 1st at 8:00 a.m. the Winnipeg Police Service will proudly host its seventh annual half marathon in support of the Cops for Cancer Program. This event is being hosted in cooperation with the Winnipeg Police Service and Winnipeg Iron Cops – Cops for Cancer. This year's event will have approximately 2400 runners and will also serve as Manitoba Provincial Half Marathon Championships.   Each member of the race committee has been touched by cancer in some way, whether it has been a family member, friend, co-worker or themselves that has battled this disease. Iron Cops is part of the Cops for Cancer Program that has fundraised over $14,000,000.00 since its inception in 1994. Since 2000, the Winnipeg Iron Cops chapter alone has raised almost $520,000.00; included in that amount is just over $370,000.00 since 2005 with the WPS Half Marathon event alone! The organizers for the 2011 event expect to exceed a fundraising goal of over $100,000.00!   The event is scheduled to start at 8:00 a.m. just east of the footbridge with a fly over by the Winnipeg Police Service's helicopter AIR1. AIR1 will follow the runners off the start line then return to the Assiniboine Park for public viewing – weather permitting.   1st leg: Runners will head east from the start line then south through the park on Locomotive Dr and Formal Garden Way to make their way out of the Park. The runners will then proceed north on Park Blvd. North then east on Wellington Crescent (in the west bound lanes) to Oxford Street (turn-around point) where they will return west on Wellington Cr and then north over the train footbridge at Empress; continue west on the north side of the river on Wolseley Av W, under Route 90 overpass to Riverbend, Assiniboine Av.; north on Douglas Park Rd then west on Portage in the east bound traffic curb lane. (Relay drop off and pick up vicinity of Portage and Overdale).      2nd leg: Runners will continue west on Portage Avenue to Olive St where they will utilize the footpath system to head onto Roblin Blvd to Oakdale (turnaround point) and back to the north side of the Assiniboine River via the Moray Bridge where the runners will make a loop through Woodhaven (west on Portage in the east bound traffic curb lane; south on Woodhaven; east on Assiniboine Av, north on Woodbridge, east on Assiniboine Cr to Portage) prior to returning east on Portage to the Assiniboine footpath where they will proceed north over the footpath to the finish line located at the Duck Pond.        For a full running map, please visit www.wpshalfmarathon.ca, Event Details, Course Description.    Traffic notes include:   ·        West bound Wellington Crescent from Oxford to the Assiniboine Park is closed from 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. (No parking on the closed portions of Wellington Crescent) ·        North bound Park Bv N to Wellington Crescent closed from 6:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. (No parking on Park Bv N, north of Corydon) ·        West bound Roblin at the Charleswood Pkwy is closed from 6:00 a.m. until noon  ·        No parking is permitted on the south side of Portage from Douglas Park Blvd west to Woodhaven Blvd from 2:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on race day.   Any further questions can be directed to the Media Coordinator, Carol Ferguson through the website – www.wpshalfmarathon.ca.             For further information contact either: Constable Natalie Aitken, Public Information Officer Constable Jason Michalyshen, Public Information Officer Office: (204)986-3061 Fax: (204) 986-3267 Email: WPS-PIO@Winnipeg.ca   Web: www.winnipeg.ca/Police

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