Runner leads 50K effort to ease neighbors’ suffering

  • Steve Barlet runs the Lampasas Run Club Veterans Day 5K. He has organized a charity event on Dec. 24 to benefit families displaced by a recent fire. COURTESY PHOTO
    Steve Barlet runs the Lampasas Run Club Veterans Day 5K. He has organized a charity event on Dec. 24 to benefit families displaced by a recent fire. COURTESY PHOTO

    A local running enthusiast has pledged to run 50 kilometers on Dec. 24 to raise money for a family displaced by a November house fire.

    Steve Barlet, a member of the Lampasas Run Club, will run at W.M. Brook Park in a self-starter event he’s calling the Suffer Creek 50K Charity Drive. Barlet organized the event to raise awareness and money for the Chaudoin family of Lampasas, who lost their home and…