Sharpe met Fox during the Marathon of Hope, not long before the latter was forced to end the marathon early and return to hospital.
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West Shore Terry Fox Run organizer, Courtney Hill, laces up her sneakers in front of Royal Roads University’s recreation centre. “A sweet babe did his first Terry Fox run last year with us in the Chariot with his parents and they returned this year to run again with him and now, his baby sister; such a sweet tradition in the making”, she said. “Terry Fox is a Canadian icon whose importance seems to grow with each new generation”, says Anthony Wilson-Smith, president and CEO of Historica Canada.
Thirty-five years after his remarkable feat, the young athlete’s memory lives on in Terry Fox Runs across Canada, which have helped raise $700-million for cancer research.
Then, he needed special lessons in learning to run like Terry Fox.
Around 1,500 people are expected to participate in London. She said his cancer was determined to be work-related.
“That’s when it really hit me, where I really recognized, ‘Holy crow, what he is doing is unbelievable – the impact that he’s having on so many people”, he says, recalling a crowd of thousands awaiting his brother’s arrival at city hall.
It was “just in 1980, so it must have been done literally months after Terry stopped running”.
Cancer, what he thought he had beaten when doctors amputated his leg, had spread to his lungs.
The 35th annual three-to-10-kilometre Terry Fox Run will be held between 9 and 11 a.m. on Sunday, September 20th at J.A. Laird Elementary School.
“It was a no-brainer for me to get out and do my part to support Terry’s dream”, she wrote. Different route options available.
His goal, to raise one million dollars for cancer research.
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Visit www.terryfox.org for more information or to donate. “And, you just can’t leave something like that and forget it. I had to try to do something about it”.
