SWAMPSCOTT – Approximately 500 runners are taking to the streets next Saturday morning for the Gold Star Run for Honor, a road race to raise money for scholarships and honor the memory of Jared Raymond, the Swampscott Army Specialist who was killed in Iraq in 2006.”We’d like it to be as big as the Boston Marathon someday,” said Jared’s mother Jacki Raymond, noting the race has grown each year since the family began the event in 2007.A Specialist in the 1st Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Raymond was killed at the age of 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M1A2 Abrams Tank during combat operations in Taji, Iraq. A graduate of the Hadley School and Swampscott High School, Raymond had wanted to become a police officer after serving in the Army, said his grandmother Agnes Raymond.The race is the main fundraiser for the Jared Raymond Scholarship Foundation, which gives $500 in American Hero Awards to high school students from Lynn and Swampscott who are going into the Armed Services. The Foundation also awards a $2,500 scholarship to a Swampscott High School senior who will study criminal justice in college. Another two scholarships fund a week’s vacation for a child at Camp Rotary in Boxford, a camp Jared attended and where he worked as a counselor in training, said his grandmother.Proceeds also go toward sending packages to troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.Registration to run in the 5K is $25, and $35 for the 10K and can be done online at www.active.com. Registration the day of the race begins at 8 a.m. at Clarke Elementary School, 100 Middlesex Ave.The race will start from the school at 9 a.m. and will travel a loop along Paradise Road, through the Stop and Shop parking lot, Essex Street and Burrill Street. For more information contact Ashley Steeves at [email protected] or visit www.BnSFitness.com. The event is sponsored by the Swampscott Police Association, B&S Fitness and B&S Sport Science.”We have a lot of veterans from Vietnam to the War on Terror and a lot of Jared’s friends who he went to high school with run,” said Agnes Raymond. “They really keep Jared’s memory alive.”