Also participating from a distance will be Louisiana National Guard members from the 205th Engineer Battalion deployed in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Two hundred and sixty men and women on active-duty wearing YMCA t-shirts and race bibs will run the Corporate Cup at 4:30 p.m. Kuwait time, shadowing the New Orleanians running in City Park.
“We do our best in this country when we all come together for a common goal.” Gordon Wadge, President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater New Orleans. “We are so excited to have our men and women in the National Guard and our Youth Run NOLA kids join us in the Corporate Cup to support the common goal of adult literacy and lifelong learning.”
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