By Nicole Tuck, Director, Bronxville Chamber of Commerce

Sep. 27, 2017: The Bronxville Chamber of Commerce announces the first annual "Yards for Yeardley" Road Race. The Chamber is honored to be partnering with the One Love Foundation, whose mission is to change the statistics around relationship abuse by educating young people about the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors.

The 2.5-mile run will be held in Bronxville starting at the Meadow Avenue entrance to the school at 9:00 am on October 14 to benefit the One Love Foundation, which has its headquarters in the heart of Bronxville's business district.

Registration for the run can be made at https://register.chronotrack.com/r/33199 or www.bronxvillechamber.com.

The first 150 registrants will receive a free T-shirt; 400 runners are guaranteed a medal.

"The Chamber's hope is to raise awareness for the One Love Foundation within our village and beyond," said Nicole Tuck, director of the Bronxville Chamber of Commerce.

A portion of the proceeds will go to the foundation. In addition, runners will be able to sponsor a social fundraising campaign for One Love through CrowdRise. More information can be found when registering.

The run will start and finish on Meadow Avenue by The Bronxville School. Immediately following completion of the run, runners will be directed to Park Place for a block party, where run sponsors will have exhibits and each runner will be presented with a medal. There will be music, food, and give-a-ways.

"We have always been incredibly grateful for the early support we've received from our home community of Bronxville," said Sharon Robinson, vice chair of One Love and cousin of Yeardley Love's, in whose memory One Love was founded (see below). "This race is a perfect way to punctuate our deepened commitment to serving Bronxville and greater Westchester with a new retail presence and a robust docket of new community activities this fall." 

This initiative has been supported by the following key sponsors in addition to other chamber members who are sponsoring this community event: NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital, Pete's Tavern, Bronxville Auto Collision, Inc., Ladle Of Love, Acme, and Bronxville Fitness Club.

Founded in 2010 to honor the memory of Yeardley Love (known as "Yards"), who was beaten to death by her ex-boyfriend just three weeks before their graduation from the University of Virginia, One Love's mission is to end relationship abuse by educating young people about healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors and empowering them to be leaders driving change in their communities. Over the last two years, more than 135,000 young people in communities across the country have participated in the Escalation Workshop, and almost 60 million have viewed the #ThatsNotLove campaign on social media. For more information, please visit www.joinonelove.org.

Pictured here:  Poster for the One Love Foundation 2.5-mile road race.

Photo courtesy Bronxville Chamber of Commerce