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The Fruita Community Center was packed Saturday with health conscious community members and their families for the City of Fruita’s fifth annual Sweet Heart Run and Health Expo. The event was managed and promoted in part by the CMU Public Relations Club.

Grand Valley residents attended the 5K run/walk and 10K run. The top two male and female winners in each of the age categories received custom SockGuy arm warmers.

Aside from helping promote the event, PR Club members helped the event in many ways including directing runners, handing out water and directing traffic on the roads.

In addition to the runs, Family Health West’s Health Expo featured vendors promoting health and wellness.

“It was a community service project for the PR Club,” PR Club President Ashley Foley said. “It was very good practical experience for us. We got to learn how an event is run.”

The first 400 participants received custom Loki running gloves and goodie bags.

“It was a lot of fun and we hope to do it again next year,” Foley said.

The PR Club’s goal is to provide practical experience to students outside the classroom in the public relations and advertising field. They meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the Mass Communications Library on the third floor of the Fine Arts building. For more information, email Foley at afoley@mavs.coloradomesa.edu