10K Winners
5K Winners

A big thank you to our 2008 Run Walk & Roll Sponsors

In Kind Donations:

Music Provided By: The Whisper System

Shuttle Provided By:

Tent Provided By: Port Washington/Saukville Jaycees

Run Volunteers Provided By:

Port Washington Kiwanis Club

Carnival Picnic Food Provided By:

I.E. Franks – Saukville

Carnival Games and Activities Provided By:

Drews

Port Washington

Mrs. Doodledash

Run Flags/vests Provided By:

Tables Provided By:

St. John’s Lutheran Church and Academy

Other Donations:

Port Washington Lion’s Club

American Legion Post 82

Thank you to the more than 250 people who came, ran, walked and rolled to help raise more than $8,000 for Possibility Playground’s new interactive water feature.

10K Winners
5K Winners

Thank you to the more than 250 run, walk and rollers, who gathered at Possibility Playground in Port Washington’s Upper Lake Park Sunday, May 31, to raise more than $8,000 for Ozaukee County’s first universally accessible playground for children of all abilities.

Special thanks to the pledge-getters, who proved that a few people can make a huge difference. It’s not too late to turn in pledge money. It really adds up!

A special thank you to the people who volunteered and supported the event: The Friends of Possibility Playground, Port Washington Kiwanis Club, Port Washington Lion’s Club, American Legion Post 82, Family Fun Land, Johnson School Bus, Portal Industries, Big Apple Bagels and Alterra Coffee.

Thank you to the City of Port Washington and the Port Washington Police Department for helping to make the event run smoothly. We’d like to thank Sara Grover and the Main Street Program for allowing us to participate in the Community Street Festival, which was a great way to end the event.

In an amazing show of volunteerism, Ozaukee County residents and people from throughout the state came together last September to build Possibility Playground in only a week. The money raised by events such as the Run, Walk and Roll will ensure that the playground is maintained for years to come.

The Possibility Playground Run,
Walk & Roll Committee:
Stacey Berg, Carrie Ehrlich, Mardy McGarry, Sue Mayer, Melissa Niemeyer, Ed Pankow, Stacy Peters, and Greta Schanen

Thank you to our 2009 Run, Walk n’ Roll Sponsors:

Supported by:

American Legion Post 82

Port Washington Lions Club




In Kind Donations:
Shuttle Provided by:


Run flags/vests provided by:

Other Donations:
Big Apple Bagels
Alterra Coffee

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2010 Run, Walk ‘n Roll
10k and 5k run, 5k kids’ fun run, 5k walk.

Day of Event Registration
6 to 9 a.m.10k and 5k Run
7 to 10 a.m Walkers and Kids’ Fun Run

9:30 a.m. 10k start
10:30 a.m. 5k start
10:45 a.m. Kids’ Fun Run

Registration
$20 for 5K and 10K run event; 
$20 for 5k walk
Competitive runners can opt out of T-shirt and pay $15

Kids Fun Run $10

Pre-registration opens soon and runs through June 11 until midnight.

June 12 through Day of the Event Registration is $22 and does not guarantee a T-Shirt

Awards
First place 5K and 10K: trophy and a $100.00 gift certificate to InStep.

Overall male and female winners of 5K and 10K: trophy.

Age/Gender awards in 10-year increments starting at 19-29:
1st place – medal,
2nd and 3rd place – a ribbon.

Kids fun Run: all participants receive a finishers ribbon

Course Records
10K – Ryan Hill 35:56
5K – Dana Schulz 16:54

After Party and Awards
Downtown Port Washington Community Party
Food, music, and fun!

If you have already signed up, please contact ed_pankow@hillrunner.com or suelmayer@earthlink.net regarding a refund.

How to make balancing activites easier for your child:

• Allow your child to use two hands on the equipment, or allow them to hold both of your hands
• Have your child kneel rather than stand
• Help guide your child’s hand or foot by placing your hand over theirs
• Have your child watch you use the equipment first, then try with your help

How to make balancing activities more challenging for your child:

• Ask your child to do the activity faster, or with their eyes closed
• Hold only one hand to assist your child, then give no physical assistance; transition to using words only to help them
• Have your child stand on one leg, use only one hand to assist, or complete more repetitions

List of benefits provided by Ozaukee Therapy

Sensory Integration

• Stand on the surf board and try to keep it still
• Lay on your tummy and hold your arms up in the air
• While on your tummy, swim your arms forward like the front crawl.
• Repeat lying on your back

Motor Skills

• Practice balancing on the surfboard in sitting then kneeling than standing
• Try to rock the board front to back and side to side
• Standing still, rock the board one time then stop. Rock it two times then stop
• Practice climbing on and off the board independently

Child-Adult Interaction

• Sit behind your child to help them balance
• Stand in front of your child and hold their hands
• Help teach your child to climb onto the board rather than lifting them onto it
• Sing “Row, row, row your boat.”

Speech and Language

• Sing any kids song to the tune of surf music
• Pretend the surf board is in the water. Talk about what lives in the water. What would you see at a beach?

List of benefits provided by Ozaukee Therapy

Sensory Integration

• Offers movement input; rocking front back, side to side and in diagonal patterns
• Allows child to practice safety awareness and body awareness; knowing where his/her body is in space and within the rocker
• Grasp on handle bar offers deep input to palms (perceptive input)

Motor Skills

• Allows opportunity to practice self-initiating front-back rocking motion, encouraging coordination
• Offers improved strength and endurance for the trunk/body
• Motor planning can be practiced through climbing in and out of the rocker

Child-Adult Interaction

• Hold your child at the waist to help them rock the elephant in standing
• Stand in front of the elephant and encourage child to try to bump you or tip you over
• Talk about where your child is riding to: make up a story about riding through the jungle. What do you see? What sounds do you hear?

Speech and Language

• Rocking movement encourages sound production such as “Wee, Ahhh, Yeh!”
• Allows child to repeat sounds as he/she rocks: “go, go, go” “more, more, more”
• Allows for discussion about concepts such as “in/out” “up/down” “on/off”

List of benefits provided by Ozaukee Therapy

• Hop up and down the ramp
• Roll down the ramp
• Bunny hop, using hands and feet to push off the surface

Motor Skills

• This activity offers strengthening for the trunk and legs
• Walking up and down with both hands and feet on the surface will improve upper body strength and coordination
• This activity offers an opportunity to work on balance and motor planning, when specific directions are given; example: jump to the three, step on the two

Child-Adult Interaction

• Hold your child at the waist and help them hop up and down on one or two feet
• Roll down the ramp and have your child roll behind you to “chase” you
• Ask your child to crawl up and down the ramp in different animal positions; bunny hop, crawl slow like a turtle, walk on hands and feet like a bear
• Ask your child to stand on the triangle-guide them to it if they can not find the target on their own

Speech and Language

• Allows you child to identify numbers, colors or shapes that they are standing on
• Give directions incorporating action words, shapes, numbers, colors.
• Example: “Step over the circle.”
• Allows child to practice words and concepts such as: red, blue, green, circle, square, triangle

List of benefits provided by Ozaukee Therapy

Sensory Integration

• Go barefoot
• Sit your child directly in the sand or place them on hands and knees If your child is very sensitive, sit them outside of the box and bring a small container of sand to them

Motor Skills

• Walking in the sand helps improve lower body strengths and endurance
• Practice using two hands together by having child hold a bucket and use a shovel to scoop sand into it with the other hand
• Practice balance by walking along the seat of the sand box
• Scooping with the digger allows children to practice visual motor control
• Offers arm and hand strengthening

Child-Adult Interaction

• Sit in the sand with your child
• Take turns scooping into a bucket
• Help your child scoop a full shovel of sand to offer more weight to it
• Model scooping and transferring it back and forth between containers
• Play in the sand with your child, asking for “more” sand in your bucket, ask for “help” to dump out your bucket, then encourage your child to use words to direct you through activities
• Build a sand tower and model words like “up, up, up.” Knock it down, “boom.”

Speech and Language

• Allows child to practice talking about directions and concepts: “dig more, lift the scooper up, empty the scooper please.”
• Talk about the sand: is it wet or dry?

Soft or scratchy?

• Encourages child to interact with other children by asking them to take turns, to share toys
• Hide objects in the sand and dig for them. Label what you find

List of benefits provided by Ozaukee Therapy