Despite temperatures hovering in the mid-30s dozens of runners take off on the 5k portion of Saturday’s Jingle Bell Jog to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. This year, the Phoebe Putnery Memorial Hospital-sponsored event joined with the Tift Park Community Market, which helped drawn close to 1,000 people to the downtown Albany park.
Despite a considerable chill a festive and giving spirit was in the air Saturday morning at Albany’s Tift Park as citizens gathered to participate in the 29th annual Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Jingle Bell Jog, which this year was joined by a special holiday edition of the Tift Community Market.
Vendor Pat Harris scoops up a cup of hot boiled peanuts for a patron at Saturday’s special Tift Community Market, which opened in conjunction of the running of the 29th annual Jingle Bell Job to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Eddie and Kowana McKinny pose for a picture in front of Kowan’s Repurposed Windows, a booth at Saturday’s special Tift Park Community Market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Angie Van Houten greets visitors and runners to Saturday’s combined Tift Park Community Market and Jingle Bell Jog. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Liz Sandefur arranges her What the Scrap booth at Saturday’s Tift Park Community Market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Runners coming down 5th Avenue in Albany’s Rawson Circle Neighborhood wave to volunteers and spectators during Saturday’s Jingle Bell Jog 10K. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
With morning temperatures at Albany’s Tift Park Community Market hovering in the mid-30s Saturday, Hudson Gresham tries to keep warm under a thick blanket while his mom Jamie looks on. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Friendly elf Allen VanHook livens up Saturday’s special Tift Park Communty Market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Phoebe Putney Health Systems President and CEO Joel Wernick snaps a selfie with runners at the starting line of the 5K at this year’s Jingle Bell Jog to support the Children’s Miracle Network. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Local photographer Rosemary West is all smiles as she sets up her vendor booth at Saturday’s special edition of the Tift Park Community Market, held in conjunction with the Jingle Bell Jog. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Friends of Tift Park co-chairman Stephen Brimberry warms up with a hot cup of joe at Saturday’s special Tift Park Community Market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Justin Everett of Pachitla Farms bags up some chemical free porduce during Saturday’s special Tift Park Community Market. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
Good buddies, from left, Abigail Callins and Emily Rutledge, fresh off running the one mile fun run at this year’s Jingle Bell Jog, pose for a picture. (Staff Photo: Brad McEwen)
