Joseph Sell’s mother Patricia Lord (right) and stepfather David Lord lead a group back to the Baker Free Library in Bow during a sunrise 5K that raised money for the foundation established in Sell’s memory on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)
Joseph Sell’s mother Patricia Lord (right) and stepfather David Lord lead a group back to the Baker Free Library in Bow during a sunrise 5K that raised money for the foundation established in Sell’s memory on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Credit: Elizabeth Frantz—Monitor staff

As many as 150 people gathered in the dark outside the Baker Free Library in Bow on Sunday morning. They were there to walk and run a sunrise 5K in tribute to Bow’s Joseph Sell and raise money for the Into the Light Foundation to help combat the opioid epidemic that claimed Sell’s life. A 2014 graduate of Bow High School, Sell died Sept. 7, 2016, at 20 years old. Proceeds from the event will send one individual per year to Riverbank House, a drug addiction treatment center in Laconia, according to Patricia Lord, Sell’s mother. “If I can save one family or one parent from going through what I’ve been through – what we’ve been through … it’s one more life saved. It’s got to start somewhere, so here’s the start,” she said. Organizers plan to make the run an annual event.