Winchester Will Race to Remember

The Ginn Playground Restoration Project together with the Stone Family will host this Sunday, June 12 to of Charlotte Mortimer, Finn Mortimer, Laura Stone-Mortimer, and Ragna Ellen Stone.

Funds raised from “A Race to Remember” will be used to build a memorial at Ginn Playground in honor of the deceased members of the Stone-Mortimer family.

“This is a great way to celebrate the lives of the family,” said Mary Ellen Rourke Falvey, the BeGinn Again Foundation chair. “They are long-time Winchester residents and this is the perfect way to honor them.”

The road race will begin at 9:15 a.m. and will include a 3.6 mile Run/Walk as well as a 50-yard and 100-yard Kids Fun Run beginning and ending at The race will begin at Ginn Field and the competitors will run past Canal Street, where the Stone family had their house.

All runners will be chip timed. Runners can register from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. the day of the race, and 100 percent of the proceeds will be going towards the park and the memorial.

Following “A Race to Remember” there will be a celebration at Ginn Field with the Pixie Sticks of Arlington playing family-friendly music, carnival games and food.

Rourke-Falvey has been raising money for a new playground at Ginn for the last three years and she hopes to begin construction on the playground this fall.

“I’m real pleased at what we achieved,” Rourke-Falvey said. “I can’t wait to see my kids pay there.”

The Ginn Playground Restoration Project is a collaborative effort started in Fall 2009 by Winchester residents to rebuild Ginn Playground. The project just needs an additional $20,000 to complete fundraising and complete a new playground in the fall of 2011. Ginn Playground Restoration Project is a non-profit 501 (c) (3), all donations are tax deductible.