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Channel 13 news anchor Mark Garay races 24 hours to raise money for the March of Dimes

On October 27-28 Channel 13's news anchor Mark Garay raced for 24 hours straignt to help raise money for the March of Dimes. He started at noon on the 27th and went for 24 hours of straight racing for the cure. Mark's effort for The March of Dimes raised over $4000. In the 24 hour time period local residents come out to support Mark and cheer him on.



About 12:45 pm on Oct 27th
At the start one of Marks fellow co-workers from channel 13, Ted Ishler, stopped by to see how he was doing. He really came to see if he could get some footage of Mark running into the walls and wrecking all over the track so they can make fun of him at their Christmas party. After Ted saw that Mark was a great driver, he jumped on in and spent a few races being Mark's crew chief. His fellow workers had Ted bring with him some goodies for Mark to munch on while he was racing. They brought a lot of junk food hoping that it would give him a sugar rush so that it would keep him up into the wee hours of the night.









11:30am Oct 27th
Here is Mark eating a big lunch just before he is going to get into the car and start his journey into the night. A few weeks before the event started Mark was at the Speedway practicing is racing technique so he would look good for the camera.





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go the distance...