Uniontown to receive Great Race check
The Uniontown Public Library will be presented on Oct. 5 with $3,000 that a group of volunteers won for making Uniontown the best pit stop on the cross-country, vintage car Great Race in June. Race sponsor, Rally Partners Inc., is not sending a representative to the check presentation, but it mailed the check to the National Road Heritage Corridor, which organized the city’s pit stop.
Donna Holdorf, National Road director, said the check will be presented to library officials outside the library at 11 a.m.
The 24th annual Great Race started June 24 in Philadelphia and ended July 8 in San Rafael, Calif.
Along the way, the 103 vehicles were required to make 19 pit stops, 13 lunch breaks and 14 overnight stays.
At the end of the race each race teams, which included a driver and navigator, voted for their favorite stops and Uniontown was selected as the best pit stop.
The first leg was from Philadelphia to York on June 24. Uniontown was the first pit stop on June 25.
“It was great fun,” Holdorf said.
About 20 volunteers decorated downtown, directed the cars to their pit stop areas and escorted race teams to a hospitality area in the State Theatre Center for the Arts, where the classic movie “The Great Race” was played that night.
Downtown restaurants gave patrons free admission passes to the movie.
Other activities included a barbershop quartet performance, a bicycle safety course for children, a National Guard rock climbing wall and car and motorcycle cruises.