By Sheldon Spackman

Over $10,000 raised at Red Deer Terry Fox Run

Sep 18, 2018 | 4:34 PM

Despite inclement weather, roughly 200 central Albertans braved the elements on Sunday to take part in Red Deer’s annual Terry Fox Run to help raise money for cancer research.

The event held at Heritage Ranch saw community members step up and raise over $10,000 for the cause, giving Red Deer a total of half a million dollars raised over the past 38 years in our city.

Community members also showed their support by providing food for the event’s barbeque and door prizes for after the run.

The Terry Fox Run is an annual event that raises money for cancer research and pays tribute to the man himself. Fox was a distance runner, basketball player, humanitarian and cancer research activist from Port Coquitlam , B.C. who died from cancer in 1981 at the age of 22.

Pior to his death, Fox embarked on the Marathon of Hope in 1980. An attempt to run across Canada with his prosthetic leg due to amputation, from east to west and raise one dollar from each of Canada’s 24 million people for cancer research. He made it as far as the Thunder Bay area before ending his run due to cancer. He passed away in New Westminster, B.C. on June 28, 1981.

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Terry Fox Runs have since grown to involve millions of people in over 60 countries and is now the world’s largest one-day fundraiser for cancer research. Over $750 million dollars Canadian has been raised in his name.