JUPITER Edna Runner describes her reunions with former students as some of her favorite moments in the 20-plus years she has worked at the Jupiter after-school care center that bears her name.
Over the years, Runner, now the executive director of the Edna W. Runner Tutorial Center, has received visits from college graduates, new business owners and other adults who once were children in the after-school program. They always come back to visit, she said. When they’re grown, they come and see how we’ve changed, how we’ve improved … and they’re proud to be a part of the center.
Longtime Jupiter resident inspires children for generations
Edna Runner is a mom to three and grandmother six times over, but if you ask her, she has 127 children.
and last updated 2021-01-13 18:36:42-05
JUPITER, Fla. â Edna Runner is a mom to three and grandmother six times over, but if you ask her, she has 127 children; the children who attend the tutorial center named after her in Jupiter.
Since the 1980s, Runner has had a hand in shaping the lives of thousands of children growing up in the Limestone Creek area of West Jupiter
Runnerâs parents moved her family to the area in 1955 from South Carolina to look for work.