Raglan Run collects $20,000 for Nunavik community houses
Company sets record for participants and donations this year
Raglan Run participants run down the hill at the Raglan Mine site on July 5. (Photo courtesy of Raglan Mines)
Raglan Mine collected $20,000 in its eighth year of the Raglan Run held July 5, the most money raised since the event’s creation.

Raglan Run participant Sammy Annahatak Gordon, right, arrives at the finish line of the race. (Photo courtesy of Raglan Mines)
The company pledged $100 per runner and a record 181 runners took part. Raglan added $1,900 to round-up the total to $20,000.
The company polled its workers to ask who should be the recipients of the donation, and Salluit’s Iqitsivik and Kangqisujuaq’s Mianirsivik family houses were chosen.
Both family houses are community organizations that provide food assistance, cultural activities and space for families to come together.
“The race was wonderful,” said Jeannie Kakayuk Puxley, a race planning committee member and training co-ordinator for Raglan Tamatumani.
Participants in the five-kilometre and 10-kilometre events were a mix of Raglan employees and contractors who were on site.
Puxley said the routes have been the same since the run’s inception, along the site road leading to the Raglan facility.
“Health and safety is our top priority,” she said, and ambulance attendants were on site to assist runners and make sure the roads were clear of vehicles.
Runners didn’t have to contend with rain or snow this year but the weather was cold enough “for people to want to get to the finish line faster,” Puxley said with a laugh.
She said that while Raglan is a place to work, “it is also important to note that there are a lot of community activities that happen there,” adding the annual race “brings people together and makes sure we are all comfortable to be there.”
Puxley said that “when employees are given a couple of extra hours off work to get ready for the race, there is a spark of electricity in the air.
“Everyone becomes excited to be a part of this.”
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