ATTLEBORO -- A community effort that focused on a local teacher who ran for hours to help students in Attleboro's alternative high school will be recognized during Monday night's school committee meeting May 9, 2005.

The 30-minute celebration of Martin Tighe's `` Go The Distance'' project, including a video, will begin at 7 p.m. in Attleboro High School's Bray Auditorium.

Tighe is an adjustment counselor in The Network, the alternative program. He is also a world-class endurance runner.

Twice this year he has run to raise funds for the program. In March, he set a record for running over a 12-hour period, on a treadmill at Emerald Square mall in North Attleboro. Then, on April 29, in the high school lobby, he pursued another record: most miles on a treadmill over 24 hours. He ran 40 miles, and six hours, before dizziness ended his race.

Network students, as well as police and everyday citizens, took over before the Attleboro High track team finished the race. The team skipped a state track meet to do it. The effort raised thousands of dollars for The Network.

Monday night's celebration will start with Principal Jackie Proulx discussing the news coverage of the project, Network Coordinator Kathleen Vespia said Saturday.

Vespia then will discuss the project's impact on The Network students and staff, and the community. Then, a video made by parent Donna Brousseau will be shown. "She made a video that captured the essence of the project," Vespia said.  "It's one of those things you get goose bumps watching.

”We want everyone who’s going to be in the video to be in the audience so when the video is running the community can really applaud themselves."

Tighe will also say a few words, Vespia said.