Running was popular in Europe long before it caught on in America, which is why most races are measured in kilometers instead of miles and why most of the Pilgrims were eaten by bears. Race to the top of the food chain with today's Groupon: for $15, you get one registration for the Move to Stop Modern Day Slavery 5K walkathon or competitive race, presented by California Against Slavery (a $40 value). The nonprofit event takes place on Sunday, August 28 in Harbor Island Park. Check-in starts at 7:30 a.m.
Participants in the Move to Stop Modern Day Slavery Walkathon stroll or run through a scenic 5-kilometer course to raise funds for California Against Slavery’s fight to end human trafficking in the state. The fundraising ramble kicks off at 7:30 a.m., when racers and walkers can register their lower backs with a walkathon t-shirt and a number for easy identification by mobile high-five squads. At 8:30 a.m., competitive racers launch themselves onto the 5K course, followed 15 minutes later by walkers, who ramble through bayside parkland at a more leisurely pace. At the end of the course, both groups can collect snacks and recount tales of derring-do on the course before settling in to absorb speeches from CAS executive director Daphne Phung, human-trafficking survivor Nikki Junker, and police association president Brian Marvel. The walkathon will also present prizes to the top individual and team fundraisers.
California Against Slavery endeavors to enact strong state laws to increase the penalties of human trafficking, a crime currently exploiting more than 100,000 American minors. Its antitrafficking ballot initiative aims to lengthen prison sentences and boost fines for sex traffickers, as well as confronting recalcitrant state lawmakers with an army of angry ballot boxes.
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The Groupon Guide to: Winning Carnival Games
The sound of children laughing as they violently rotate inside a motorized strawberry and the delicious smell of fried ring toss can only mean one thing—carnival season is in town. Win your sweetheart's sweet heart by earning a sawdust-packed cerulean gorilla from one of these classic carnival games:
- The Ring Toss: A rare handful of ring-toss games are actually quite _difficult_ to win, due to a disproportioning of ring diameter to peg girth. Guarantee victory every time by using the ring to propose to the game's owner, and then insist on a divorce to secure half the prizes.
- Test Your Strength: Less a game of chance than a feat of might, the strength test is the easiest game for winning a prize because it is the only game naive enough to willfully arm you with a sledgehammer and then demand you demonstrate how much damage you can do with it.
- Guess Your Weight: An easily subverted game. In the short walk between the weight guesser and the confirmation scale, slyly suck on the windshield-wiper-fluid cable wrapped around your midsection that's connected to the milkshake flask strapped to your hip. This will allow you to gain as many as 10 pounds in 10 seconds, as well as to win the _real_ carnival prize—making a stranger appear fallible.
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