Community Treks in Honor of Terry Fox’s Memory

Community Treks in Honor of Terry Fox’s Memory

Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent

Terry Fox’s courage carried on when 65 people of all ages participated in the 39th Annual Terry Fox Run which was hosted by the Kinette Club of Vegreville and raised approximately $6,500 from on-line donations and the event on September 14 at Vegreville Aquatic and Fitness Centre.

People could walk, run, bike, or rollerblade for this 5km walk which started by the fitness centre where there was a water station set up halfway on the route through Vegreville.

Local people took part in this run while citizens traveled all the way from Austin, Texas, Calgary, and Sherwood Park to join their family in this Terry Fox Run. Amanda Deveau said she was running for her Auntie Carol who has cancer whom she hopes for a good outcome for. Also back to run were Vegreville resident’s Vera Bykowski who came with her daughter Darlene Meininger who is from Austin, Texas and Vera’s son-Scott Bykowski. Scott said he hopes to carry on the tradition and this year they are running for their Aunt, Carol and to give his rescue dog, Mia some exercise.

There was also a local resident, Kyle Gauvin who said he was participating in the run for his mother who is a three-time cancer survivor. Kyle credits his family’s belief in God and the wonderful research, treatments, and advances they made in finding a cure for cancer that helped his mother survive. As well, Kyle admitted he was running to honor the memory of his grandfather who also had cancer but has since passed away because the cancer was too far gone by the time he was diagnosed with it.

Then there was the Mitchell’s mob, a group of relatives and friends who were running in honor of Ruby Wilson’s son, Mitchell.

Vegreville has participated in this Community Terry Fox Run since 1983 and since then they have raised $189,070.20 for cancer research.