Get your runners on and help keep Terry's dream alive. The annual Terry Fox Run in South Delta, put on by the Rotary Club of Tsawwassen, is set for Sunday, Sept. 20 with 5-kilometre and 10-kilometre route options.
It's a fun, all-ages family event, says Rotarian Sara Kirby.
"It'll be a really fun community event. It's always a hit in all of the communities across Canada and we're just looking to keep Terry's dream alive and keep that positive energy going," she says.
The event, which has the Rotary Square at the Tsawwassen Town Centre Mall as its headquarters, is suitable for bikes, wheelchairs/strollers and rollerblades.
Dogs are welcome on leashes as well.
The 10-kilometre route has been changed for this year with more of it going through Boundary Bay Regional Park, "making it a little more relaxing and more enjoyable without the cars and the traffic," Kirby explains.
Before people head off for their run there will be a local fitness instructor leading a warmup along with music that will help get everybody geared up, says Kirby.
Afterwards there will be some food, water and a gettogether, with some draw prizes as well.
About 350 took part in last year's South Delta Terry Fox Run.
"We basically doubled our number from the year before, so we had a lot more runners and walkers out, which is excellent to see. We had a beautiful day." Registration starts at 9 a.m. at Rotary Square; the run starts at 10 a.m. For more information, or to register in advance, visit www.terryfox.ca/terryfoxrun/delta-south-bc. The local event also has a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/822250391194364/.
The annual Terry Fox Run, which has raised millions for cancer research, was formed to commemorate Fox's 1980 Marathon of Hope.
- The Rotary Club of Tsawwassen also has guest speaker Bill Vigars giving a talk about Terry Fox on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 a.m. at the Beach Grove Golf Club. It is open to the public.
Vigars' website notes he "acted as Terry Fox's public relations organizer, his close friend, and confidante on the heroic Marathon of Hope."
Kirby says Vigars is an excellent speaker.
"He's got a lot of touching and a lot of really heartwarming stories about the actual event and how Terry had touched so many lives," she says.
