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Zakara Braun, 9, protects her eyes as she gets her hair colored by volunteer Vanessa Vaughn before the start of the 2016 Girls On The Run 5K on Saturday morning June 4, 2016, at Lake Padden in Bellingham, Wash. GOTR director Jen Gallant said over 700 people registered for the fun run which included 400 participants in the GOTR and Trailblazer program as well as 300 adults from various YMCAs around the Puget Sound. She added GOTR is a YMCA after school program designed to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development. (© Paul Conrad/The Bellingham Herald)