{"id":30465,"date":"2023-11-26T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-turkey-trot-draws-about-50-participants\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T01:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T01:59:58","slug":"cortez-turkey-trot-draws-about-50-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-turkey-trot-draws-about-50-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Turkey Trot draws about 50 participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fecd9ab8-7455-578b-b2c3-7fb442b766f9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"Cortez locals Gavin Henderson, left, and Amelia DeWitt, right, race towards the finish line at For Pet's Sake 2023 Turkey Trot at Parque de Vida. The two were the first to cross.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez locals Gavin Henderson, left, and Amelia DeWitt, right, race towards the finish line at For Pet's Sake 2023 Turkey Trot at Parque de Vida. The two were the first to cross.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Matthew Tangeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>This was the 20th year of the Turkey Trot at Parque de Vida in Cortez, organized as a fundraising event for For Pet\u2019s Sake Humane Society. Roughly 50 walkers and runners came out \u2013 some in costume, some with their pets\u2013- to enjoy the 1-mile course around the park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople enjoy it,\u201d said Ric Plese, who began running this course on Thanksgiving 28 years ago before he handed it off to For Pet\u2019s Sake 20 years ago to become a fundraiser. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s been some really cold, cold Thanksgiving mornings, but for the most part, it gets a pretty good crowd. And the costumes are what\u2019s fun. There\u2019s been turkeys and donkeys in costume over the years. It\u2019s been fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Pet\u2019s Sake is run by all volunteers, and events like this one help keep the organization afloat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur food and costs have increased tremendously this year,\u201d said board president Lynn Dyer. \u201cThere are a lot of needs as a community, both for medical care and for spay and neuter fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in supporting For Pet\u2019s Sake can find them on Facebook or the web, and details for their big year-end fundraiser will be announced soon<\/p>\n<p><!-- gallery:6ce27f70-e6a6-4846-bf9f-e4bbe853236a --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1-mile course runs around Parque de Vida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,598],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-public-holiday"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}