Eva K Bowlby Library 2025 Turkey Trot

12/01/2025

11/28/2025

Tot the Turkey & Wild Thing warming up for the Turkey Trot race!

11/27/2025

Enjoy your Thanksgiving! 🦃 🍽

11/26/2025

Congratulations to our overall male & female runners and walkers of the 5K.
👏 🥇

5K RUN

Joel Grimes-time 18:36
Alexis Hepburn-time 22:41

5K WALK

Carl Kondrach-time 37:16
Michelle Courtwright-time 40:42

11/26/2025

Congratulations to our overall male & female winners of the 1K Kids Run. 👏 🏆

Lincoln Piatt-time 3:48
Emilie Triano-time 3:56

11/25/2025

There’s a lot that goes into getting ready the day before the race! 🦃

‘Twas the night before the Turkey Trot
when all through the library
Not a creature was stirring, not even the cat,Molly
The t-shirts were sorted in the race bags with care, in hopes that all participants soon would be there

The turkeys were nestled all snug in their
beds while visions of medals danced in their heads
When out at the Gazebo there arose such a clatter, We sprang from the Library to see what was the matter
Away to the table of trophies & medals, we organized in a flash,tore open the bags and put out the snacks

The moon on the breast of the new fallen rain gave us cloud cover so they could run with no pain
When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but Aaron with his professional timing gear!

With some little bold runners so lively and fast, I knew in a moment they were having a blast! More rapid than Pardoned Turkeys they came, when he whistled & shouted and called them by name:

Now runners, now walkers, now kids, now pets
On Tot, on Sting, on Fetch and Wild Thing
To the top of the hills, to the top of the wall
Now walk away, run away, trot away all!

As turkeys before Thanksgiving will fly when they hear the air horn blow, they will go by
So up to the top of Washington and West streets with a course full of runners and walkers to beat

And then in a few minutes, I heard on the street, The prancing and stomping of many feet
As I heard clapping and cheering all around, Down the street came the participants with abound

They were dressed all in their turkey trot gear and their clothes were all wet with sweat this year

As some sprinted to the finish line clock,
I could see some of them coming around the block
But I heard them exclaim, “I’ll be back next year to put a medal to my name!”

Happy Thanksgiving to all and to all a good feast! 🍽

11/25/2025

We will be posting more pictures soon, but here are a few that some of you have taken & shared. Please keep posting & sharing! Thanks to Tracy Yeater for sharing many of these.

11/25/2025

Congratulations to Marklee Beal’s dog, Sydney, for winning the “Best Dressed Pet” contest! 🐶 🦃

11/24/2025

This year’s color was added to the collection! 👚

11/22/2025

A big thank you to Aaron Depew from Miles of Smiles Timing Services for all of your help during our races! You can find race results here!

11/22/2025

Congratulations to our coloring contest winners! Carter Usher, Claire Matulewicz, Chloe Courtwright, William Batchelder, and Hailey Courtwright. And thank you to Waynesburg DQ for donating the prizes! 🖍️ 🦃 🍦

11/22/2025

Wow! What a great day and great turnout! We had a total of 293 registrations which includes all the races! (Pet Walk, Kids Race, Pardoned Turkeys, 5K Run, & 5K Walk) You can find the race results here!

The Eva K Bowlby Library 5K Turkey Trot is on Saturday November 22, 2025. It includes the following events: 1K Children's Fun Run (12 and Under), Pardoned Turkey/Virtual Race Option with T-Shirt, 5K Run, 5K Walk, and 1K Pet Walk.