WHEELING — Ogden Newspapers employees are involved in every facet of the Ogden Newspapers 20K Classic, scheduled for Saturday in downtown Wheeling.

Newspaper employees design and distribute race applications, order merchandise, organize the Ogden Tiny Tot Trot on Friday and man aid stations along the 20K Classic course.

Heidi Clark, race co-director and retail/display advertising manager for The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, performs many duties for the race.

Clark orders merchandise, supplies and the signs for registration and sponsorship.

Clark also is responsible for the distribution and maintenance of race applications.

“I monitor where we are in need of applications and replenish them as needed,” Clark said.

Clark, along with race co-director and The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register circulation division Manager Eric Anderson, will be announcing the winners of the race and handing out the awards at the race banquet Saturday afternoon at WesBanco Arena.

Anderson both ran the race and helped with the event last year, but this year he is taking a break from competing.

“The race is the premiere event in the community and a showcase for Wheeling and the Ohio Valley,” Anderson said.

Anderson and others from various departments at the newspapers will aid in manning the last water station of the race in East Wheeling.

Anderson also will be selling T-shirts at WesBanco Arena, but will be mostly involved with the “refueling station” at the end of the race. That station will be distributing bottled water, sports drinks, fruit, cookies and wet towels to all participants.

Sarah Cox, a business office employee of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, handles many accounting aspects of the race as well as the Tiny Tot Trot event.

Cox will help organize and register children at the Tiny Tot Trot, a race for children 5 years old and younger, scheduled for 6:45 p.m. Friday at WesBanco Arena.

All children are given a race number of “1” to wear and gold medals at the conclusion of the non-competitive, 100-yard race, Cox said.

“The kids really like it, and it is always a good turnout,” Cox said.

The 30th anniversary of the race this year is “amazing,” Clark said.

“It is unbelievable that it has been going on for 30 years,” Clark said. “It also surprises me the number of people who run it every year, and I am proud to be a part of it.”