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Well, tomorrow's the big day, the forty seventh annual Amway Riverbank Run.

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This is West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, that's Brett Pakeiita Schmidt.

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He's back with us soon and welcoming in studio. Title sponsor to the Big

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Race, Lindsey Tilley is the supervisor of Corporate Social Responsibility with Amway. Thank

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you so much for coming in today. It's fantastic to be here. Talk

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to us a little bit about the decision for Amway to get behind this race

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again this year. Amway loves the River Bank Run. We are a health

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and wellbeing company. We are hoping that we can help all people live better,

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healthier lives and this is a tremendous opportunity to see that come to life

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right here in West Michigan. And speaking of that, you can sample touch

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everything you want because you got the sport touch my now, yo, will

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you let me finish? Sports and Fitness Expo is coming up today and that's

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packet pickup and a lot of the runners or spectators or fans like to go

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down there. De Voss play a lot an am to eight pm. And the point is there's fifty vendors there now, they're not all Amway vendors,

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but a lot of them are different products and everything to get you ready for

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race day, but also that might be new out on the market. Right.

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Absolutely, there's some fantastic vendors that we saw getting set up yesterday,

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and we'll be down there giving out some of our fitness and wellness products,

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So come down and get a bag of swag from us, and I think

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lots of the other vendors have things to give away. Gazelle was setting up a really cool display yesterday, so there's lots happening, great Riverbank apparel.

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Come down and see what you might be interested in. Russ hines with Riverbank

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Events and Media. As the thing gets underway tomorrow. You can't start the

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race until you picked up the packet, So let's talk about the expo Today

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opens at eleven till eight o'clock tonight, and you may still register today.

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Yes, you can still register for the forty seventh Annuel Amway River Bank Run,

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presented by Fifth Third Bank and Corwall Health, our official health partner.

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Fifth Third will be there today so if you got any banking questions, they

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can answer those for you as well. And Corwall will be there as well

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with doctors and other folks that are to help you answer any questions about nutrition.

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If you need you've got a question about an ailment that's going on, they can help you out with that as well. So, and the other

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thing I want to mention both of you is that this is a free event.

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Like most of the things that happen at the devas places to do something

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to get in, this is free. So if you work downtown or you're

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in the local area and you want to come down and just check it out,

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we'd love to have you. And you can register today for any of

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the events, whether it be the Hometown Pharmacy five k walk, the Amway

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five k, the fox On to ten k, or the fifth Third Bank twenty five k. That's still all available today. Plus we still need volunteers,

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so if you want to come down and volunteer, that would be great. We'd love to have you. And you can also do that online up

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until seven fifty nine tonight. So if you're busy, if you're working,

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can't get to the expo, volunteer or whatever, all online as well.

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Correct, correct, you can still do that. We'll be doing a special

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live broadcast tomorrow morning that starts at six o'clock. Kevin Richards will be there

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as well. You know, we've been talking about construction around downtown Grand Rapids

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for a long time and maybe you don't generally come downtown. You're going to

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be surprised unless you're listening to AM thirteen hundred and one oh six nine FM

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or ninety six to one the game. Russ will be in will Templeton with

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Amway will stop by as well as folks from core Well Health before we cover

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the big race. Any advice to folks who want to come down and park

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and maybe be a spectator or be part of the race as well well.

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I encourage people to do that. Steve, you've run the race and you

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understand the enthusiasm and all the excitement at the start line and all the emotions

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when people cross that finish line as well. But yes, all the parking

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ramps will be open as late as we possibly can as we as we start

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to close streets, whether it be city lots or lslots, you can find

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all the information on street closures and those times on our website, Amwayriverbankrun dot

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com. I've stepped away from running the race. I want to give more

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people the chance to, you know, get the accolades. Then well,

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you know, I mean there's gonna be ten thousand of your friends there tomorrow,

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Steve, so you really should maybe we should think about you coming back

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and running next year. Let's talk about it after the race, as I'm

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mired and the responsibility of anchoring the very important broadcasts. I understand and I

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do encourage everybody to tune in to make sure to get those traffic updates.

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It's really really important. I'll make your life a lot easier. Supervisor of

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Corporate Social Responsibility at Amway, Lindsey Tilly, thank you so much for coming

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in today. Such a pleasure. Russ Hines will talk to you again tomorrow

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morning too. Can't wait see you at six am.