Festival runners will go where no one has before

Among the many unique attractions for this weekend’s Concrete River Festival will be a color run down the concrete flood channel of the South Fork of the Palouse River in downtown Colfax.

Runners will cover approximately a mile while they are in the channel.

Saturday’s run will also be a Color Mob event in which entrants will run through mini clouds of colored corn starch. The colors will be thrown up in the the air by volunteers.

Lori Brown, chairman of the race, said she has been amazed at the number of people who have volunteered to help in the event. So far she has enrolled 40 helpers.

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