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Bolton and Palgrave host Terry Fox Runs
The Kinsmen Club of Bolton have been busy getting everything in order for another successful Bolton Run. Close to 150 runners raising $15,000 participated last year and the goal for this year is to match and improve last year's efforts. The meeting place for all participants will be at the Bolton Kinsmen Centre located at 35 Chapel Street beside Baffo's. After a brief ceremony, the Run will officially start at 9 a.m. This year a 5-kilometre route will be set up and after the runners finish their run, hamburgers, hot dogs and pop will be served. Pledge sheets can be picked up at the Albion Bolton Community Centre, Caledon Fitness Centre or Ellwood Memorial Public School. Call John Stegeman at 905-857-3021 for more information. Be at the Bolton Kinsmen Centre Sunday, Sept. 17 to help keep Terry's Dream alive! The Palgrave Rotary is sponsoring the Palgrave Terry Fox Run again this year. It has been twenty-six years since Terry started his Marathon of Hope and his legacy remains stronger then ever. The event will take place Sunday and Rotary will pick up all of the expenses. The location will be the same, the Trans Canada Trail park off of Brawton Drive. On tap will be fire trucks, skateboard ramp and rock climbing wall etc. There will be a free pancake and sausage breakfast, cooked up by the Palgrave Rotarians, at the Chuck Wagon, starting at 8. a.m. Kay MacDuffee usually leads the warmup exercises. The run/walk/jog/bike etc. will start at 9 a.m. Councillor Nancy Stewart is scheduled to attend and start the event. The half-way point of the event will be at Humber Station Road (approximately 5 kilometres) and participants can then turn around and return along the Trans Canada Trail to where they started. There will be toilets and water provided along the route. The OPP will attend. Palgrave Public School students, parents and teachers will, again, be involved in this popular community event. In Palgrave, last year the event raised more than $11,000 and organizers are hoping to beat that this year. In 2005, there were 5,271 run sites, with 2,847,730 participants, in 56 countries worldwide. The total sum raised worldwide, now stands at more than $400 million, since Terry first started the run! The Terry Fox Foundation's mission is to maintain the vision and principles of Terry Fox while raising money for innovative cancer research through the annual Terry Fox Run. In 1980, Terry Fox was a young man with cancer who wanted to make a contribution to the fight against the disease. One year later, Terry had touched the collective heart of all Canadians and today is one or our country's heroes. Terry's Marathon of Hope was the start of a dream that eventually evolved a successful partnership between The Terry Fox Foundation and the National Cancer Institute of Canada. The roots of this partnership started when Terry Fox, whose right leg was amputated in 1977 because of osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer), decided to run across Canada in 1980 to raise funds for cancer research. Terry's objective was to raise awareness of all Canadians about the critical need to find a cure for cancer. His fierce determination resulted in his running 26 miles every day for 143 days. By Feb. 1, 1981 Terry's hope of raising $1 from every Canadian was realized-the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope totaled $24.2 million. Although Terry died a few months later, one month before his 23rd birthday, his legacy lives on through the Terry Fox Foundation. It is a tribute to Terry's quiet determination and courage that the Terry Fox Run is the largest single-day fundraising event for cancer research in the world. To date, more than $200 million has been raised through the Run, which has taken place every year since 1981. For more, visit www.terryfoxrun.org. |
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