Let’s get the 2012 run off to an awesome start with the Kickoff Party at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at Tower Pizza & Mexican, 2635 Broadway, Quincy.

Veteran runners, new runners – and anyone who wants to know more about the St. Jude Quincy to Peoria Run and the Hannibal to Peoria Run – are invited! We’ll introduce our Honorary Chairman Mark Schlipman, announce our goals for 2012 and just have fun and spend time together.

Grab a friend or two and join us at the party! Food and drinks are on your own.

Mark Schlipman

We are extremely excited to announce that Mark Schlipman of Grimm Schlipman Financial Group is the 2012 Honorary Chairman for what we hope to be our largest and most successful Quincy St Jude Run yet!

Mark is a Wealth Management Specialist with Grimm-Schlipman Financial Group and, along with his firm, provide wealth planning, estate planning, risk management, small business planning and trust services for individuals and businesses. Mark’s professional affiliations and memberships include being past president of the West Central Illinois Association of Financial Advisers and is also the host of WGEM TV’s financial program “Money Talks.”  Mark’s charitable, civic and philanthropic affiliations include being a past board member for the Quincy Noon Kiwanis, a board member and past president of the Quincy Museum, as well as a past board member of the American Red Cross.

Mark, along with his wife Tricia and their children, are lifelong residents of Quincy and proud supporters of the Quincy St. Jude Run for the past several years.  Mark, together with Grimm Schlipman and their families, have been instrumental in raising the bar on the Quincy St. Jude Run and in 2011 started an annual Kid’s Run to promote awareness and raise funds through the kids of the Tri-State community to help the children of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This event not only aids and funds the hospital but is an awesome program to promote kids’ civic and charitable duty to help those in need of help

while bringing families together on a fun Saturday summer morning.

Please help us extend a warm welcome to Mark this year on our Run!

We now have a St. Jude Run store on our site – so you can get all kinds of great merchandise with the Quincy St. Jude Run logo! From t-shirts, polos, shorts, jackets, hats and other apparel to tote bags, duffels, blankets and stadium seats!

Pick your styles and colors – and even choose where you want the logo to be placed on each of your items.

A huge thanks to Landmarx for offering this great opportunity for Quincy St. Jude runners and volunteers to promote the cause that is so dear to their hearts!

We are once again walking in the Y101 St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17th.  If you would like to join us, please email Justin (info on the contacts page) and notify him that you will be walking.  He will get the starting time and location back to you!  Its always fun and we’ll be dressed in festive green attire!

Wow, the 2011 Run is upon us already.  The route is about set and you can click here to see the how the whole run works!  Runners, sign up where there is space!  Looking forward to Friday!