TERRY FOX HOMETOWN RUN
Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada's west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.
While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.
He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.
Poco Run Site Details
Hyde Creek Community Centre, 1379 Laurier, Port Coquitlam
Registration: 8am - 10am, Run Start: 10am, Event Close: 1pm
10km, 6km, 2.5km; Suitable for bicycles, wheelchairs/strollers and rollerblades; Dogs on leash welcome.
Please join me!!!!
My team, ilovehomes, is participating in The Terry Fox Run on Sunday, September 15th, 2013.
You can view our team page by clicking on the link below:
http://my.e2rm.com/TeamPage.aspx?langPref=en-CA&TSID=421678
From our team page, click on the ‘Join Team’ button to sign-up and help us fundraise. If you can’t join us, you can also support our team by making a donation online using the link above.
Thanks for your support!
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