This weekend, some will walk and others run to help Scottsbluff’s local Christian radio station update its broadcast equipment and provide aid to refugees of the war in Ukraine.
Onsite registration for KCMI-FM’s Missions 5K Walk/Run starts at 7 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 at the Wildcat Hills Nature Center, with entrants starting the course there a half-hour later. Preregistration is available through the station’s website or by dropping by KCMI’s office at 209 E. 15th St., Scottsbluff. The station is hoping for 30-40 people to be walking or running the course.
Registration is $15 for adults, $5 for children (12 and under) or $40 for a family. Half the registration fee goes to the radio station, the other half to Mission to Russia, a U.S.-based nonprofit that mainly sends missionaries to the former Soviet Union.
KCMI’s transmitter was installed in 1990, according…