Step.– El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego participated in an international torch relay Friday to promote peace by passing the peace torch among runners and welcoming the torch in front of the El Paso Courthouse. Passed.
The Torch of Peace was carried from the County seat, up N. Campbell St., past City Halla, E. Main around San Jacinto Plaza, and then back to the County Courthouse via N Mesa and E. San Antonio Ave.
Just as the Olympic torch flame represents the Games, the Peace Torch flame represents the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run. The world’s largest Peace Relay and an international team of runners passed through El Paso and Juárez.
The Peace Run is a global relay race in which runners carry a torch: the Torch of Peace, which is passed from hand to hand, person to person, as it travels from nation to nation. The goal is to create a feeling of goodwill among people of all nations.
The Peace Run organization presented Judge Samaniego with the Torchbearer award in honor of his many years of hard work promoting El Paso and the border, and helping local citizens and immigrants alike.
“I was honored to receive the Peace Torchbearer at the end of our career, which has been presented to peace advocates and humanitarians around the world such as Carl Lewis, Pope John Paul II and Dr. Davidson Hepburn. Samaniego said.
He viewed the event as an honor and an opportunity for El Paso on a global scale.
“It is important that we show that El Paso County is truly a compassionate and caring community. We are a community that values the peaceful coexistence of people with different beliefs and traditions,” she added.
For more than 30 years, the Peace Run has traversed 150 countries around the world as a symbol of humanity’s universal aspiration for a more peaceful world.
