october 7, 2020
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St. Mary’s Catholic School Holds Terry Fox Walk
Grade 9 students after completing the Terry Fox Run. (Mrs. O’Shea/Submitted)
Michelle Pinon News Advertiser Students and staff at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Vegreville continue to support cancer research in the name of Terry Fox.
On Sept. 28 198 students and six teachers collectively walked 20 kilometers to raise funds for the Terry Fox Foundation. Altogether, they raised $500, contributing to his Marathon of Hope that reached the
40 year mark in 2020. Mrs. O’Shea, a Wellness Coach at St. Mary’s, said the school has been doing the walk for over 15 years. “It started out as a 24 hour hockey tournament for a fundraiser, then turned into a com-
munity walk with all the schools, but this year with COVID we couldn’t do the community walk. As a school we wanted to ensure that students and staff still had the opportunity to walk for a loved one.”
Orest Fodchuk Speaks on his Full and Active Life Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent Orest was born in 1923 where he grew up on a farm seven miles northwest of Vegreville. He had two older sisters and one younger brother. “My childhood was quite good. We were poor but we had no shortage of food. We grew a big garden and had livestock. We had no toys so we made up our own games. “My parents were good. They worked hard. My dad did the farming and my mom did the housework.” Later, Orest went to a two-room country school
from Grades one to 10 where he used to walk three miles to school in the summertime, and his father used to drive them by horse and buggy in the wintertime. “I liked school as I liked to learn. My favorite subject was math. I also had a lot of friends at school.” “When I finished Grade 10, I went to Edmonton Technical School to take Grade 11 and 12. This was sort of like a trade school as it taught woodwork and other trades. Then after I finished Grade 12, I came back home to the farm. This was at the beginning of the Second World War and I
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