Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:55 PMUpdated Monday, May. 21, 2018 9:41 AM
The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run stops by Kemper Elementary
Members of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run run into the Kemper Elementary assembly on Thursday afternoon.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Homagni Baptista, of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, assists Kemper Elementary students in holding the Peace Torch. Students were given an opportunity to hold the torch and make a wish for peace.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Zuzana Klaskova, of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run, helps Kemper Elementary students hold the Peace Torch.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Students of Kemper Elementary School answer questions and interact with members of the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run on Thursday afternoon.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek is presented with certificates of appreciation from Pragati Pascale while she holds the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run’s torch.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Kemper Elementary School Principal Jamie Haukeness holds the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run’s torch while accepting art and a certificate of appreciation from Grahak Cunningham.
Emily Rice/The Journal
Second-grade teacher Debbie Garner and student Maicee Davis hold the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run’s peace torch.
Emily Rice/The Journal
A group of international runners passed through Montezuma County last week.
According to a news release, for more than 30 years, the Peace Run has traversed 150 nations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia as a symbol of humanity’s universal aspiration for a more peaceful world.
The group that visited Cortez left New York City on April 16 and continued to run to Bluff, Utah, on Thursday night.
At Kemper, four representatives from the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run taught the students about their organization’s views on world peace, answered questions and interacted with students for nearly an hour.
The group presented Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek and Kemper Elementary School Principal Jamie Haukeness with certificates of appreciation, artwork and passed them the peace torch.
At the end, students were given the opportunity to hold the peace torch and make a wish for peace, while guided by members of the organization.
We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. By using our site, you consent to our policies
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
