{"id":17597,"date":"2021-11-03T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atl.com\/?p=17597"},"modified":"2022-02-08T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:20:07","slug":"atl-stories-behind-the-yoke-with-13-year-old-zaron-mack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/atl-stories-behind-the-yoke-with-13-year-old-zaron-mack-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ATL Stories: Mayor Bottoms hosts another successful 5K on the 5th Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Thousands of dollars raised for the Mayor’s Youth Scholarship Program<\/em><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By Anika Robertson<\/strong>
Senior Public Relations Manager<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Olympians Edwin Moses, Terrence Trammel, Angelo Taylor, Kristi Castlin <\/em>
and Airport General Manager Balram “B” Bheodari congratulate a young winner at the Mayor’s 5K on <\/em>
the 5th Runway. \u00a92021 The Decisive Event Photojournalism<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The unique event welcomed runners and walkers of various ages and abilities for the predawn start on Oct. 16.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Over 1,600 runners and walkers returned to Runway 10-28 with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms during her final round as host of the Mayor\u2019s 5K on the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0runway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Airport General Manager Balram \u201cB\u201d Bheodari welcomed the crowd to see one of the flattest \u2013 and fastest \u2013 courses in metro Atlanta.\u00a0Bottoms was joined by four Atlanta Olympic medalists \u2013 Christian Coleman, Dwight Phillips, Angelo Taylor, Edwin Moses and Terrence Trammell \u2013 serving as part of the Mayor\u2019s \u201cHeat.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Pre-race activities brought out the Atlanta Hawks cheerleaders, the Atlanta Drum Line, a hype DJ, smoothie samples and line dancing among the attendees.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For the third year, race proceeds will help Atlanta students with college tuition through the Mayor\u2019s Youth Scholarship Program. Race proceeds including sponsor donations helped to provide $500,000 in scholarships to 92 Atlanta youth at 36 universities this year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This year\u2019s sponsors included Delta Air Lines, Enterprise Holdings, Woodward Academy, Braves, AT&T, Jackmont Hospitality, the Hudson Group and MARTA.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Various City of Atlanta and Aviation departments collaborated to organize this hallmark event: Maintenance, Operations, Parking, Marketing, Mayor’s Office of Communications, Ground Transportation, and more. To access the list of winners, click\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Thousands of dollars raised for the Mayor’s Youth Scholarship Program By Anika Robertson Senior Public Relations Manager The unique event welcomed runners and walkers of various ages and abilities for the predawn start on Oct. 16. Over 1,600 runners and walkers returned to Runway 10-28 with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms during her final round […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":17978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[67,71,112,115,114,113],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlstories","tag-atl-stories","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-future-pilot","tag-general-manager","tag-john-selden","tag-zaron-mack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17979,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions\/17979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.atl.com\/atl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}