The fourth annual Farmer’s Filthy 5 event was held in Stenen on June 3 when 148 runners registered to run in the one, three or five-kilometre races.
Children, aged four years old and up, participated in the one-kilometre race and children 11 years and up ran in the three-kilometre race.
There were 15 individual runners and 22 teams that entered the 5k race. The race included, but was not limited to, obstacles, including climbing bales, flipping a tractor tire, going through a mud trench and pounding a spike into a railway tie.
The first-place 5k individual runner was Scott Lesanko of Saskatoon with a time of 35 minutes 36 seconds. The team that came in first for the 5k race was a Sturgis team named Saturdays for the Boys. JT Foster of Norquay took first place in the 3k race with a time of 28 minutes, 39 seconds.
“We have been able to donate over $46,000 in the past three years,” said Reagan Foster, one of the many race organizers.
“We also donated over $5,000 to Teagan's Voice,” Foster said, explaining that Teagan’s Voice was assembled after Teagan Batstone’s death in 2014. Batstone’s death is a crime that her mother is still awaiting trial for.
The organization is working towards, “legislative changes and changes to the application of existing laws to protect children from being put into unsafe homes.”
Information on Teagan’s Voice website says that “the intent for the proceeds from this year’s race is to go to a room in the Children’s Hospital in memory of Iron Will.”
When the first Farmer’s Filthy 5k race started the registrants were running for Iron Will, Foster said. Will Rattray passed away in 2013 at less than 13 months old of a condition called laryngomalacia.
The Town of Stenen and Rawhides restaurant welcomed the event again this year, as they have for the past three years with much support and help.
The Farmer’s Filthy 5 race received a large grant from the Seedmaster Foundation as well.
Next year will most likely be the fifth and final year, Foster said. The next race is tentatively set for June 16, 2018.
Persons interested in helping out or sponsoring the event, may contact Nicole Korpusik or Reagan Foster at farmersfilthy5@outlook.com or check out the website or Facebook page.
