Colour Run fundraisers to return to FSJ and Chetwynd

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — With summer fast approaching, runs around the peace region are set to become a lot more colourful.

Registration has opened for both the Sunrise Rotary Club of Fort St. John’s ninth annual Colour Run/Walk and Chetwynd’s Tansi Friendship Centre’s five-kilometre Colour Run, scheduled for consecutive days on the last weekend of May.

Colour runs are community races where stations are lined throughout the course, with volunteers throwing coloured chalk at participants. 

First up will be the Tansi Friendship Centre’s charity colour run, scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 30th at 10 a.m., starting on Campbell Way behind Pine Valley Exhibition Park.

The course will be released online soon, according to the Tansi Friendship Centre’s Lannae Boyd. 

Boyd added the motive to put on the event came from Tansi staff members completing a learn to run program.

“[Our] staff and community members participated in a fitness challenge,” said Boyd. “We ran one from January to March.”

“We have heard a lot of good things about people wanting to attend.”

Tansi is a community centre which provides men’s and women’s, elders and family programs. Entrance to the race will be by donation only, with proceeds supporting Tansi’s capacity-building.

The race will be followed by a community barbecue. More information can be found by calling the centre at 250-788-2996.

The next day, Sunday, May 31st, will see the Sunrise Rotary Club of Fort St. John host its ninth annual colour run, taking place starting at the campus of Northern Lights College.

Registration is open now, with all proceeds going toward mental health initiatives in the community, according to a Facebook post promoting the event.

Competitors can choose between a five or 10-kilometre run or walk. The cost for the run is $30, and online registration ends at 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 28th.

Registration packages can be picked up on Saturday, May 30th at Ernie’s Sports Experts located in Totem Mall. 

For late entrants, late registration will take place on Sunday, May 31st at the college starting at 9 a.m.

After opening remarks and a warm-up, the 10-kilometre race will start first at 9:50, with the five- kilometre run following at 9:55 a.m. 

A kid’s one-kilometre race will take place at 10:45 a.m. 

To register for the 2026 Rotary Colour Me Run Fort St. John, visit the event’s registration site.