Sunday, Sept.15, Revelstoke will be one of many communities across Canada participating in the Terry Fox Run.
Participants can register online or onsite at The Revelstoke Railway Museum. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the event begins at 9 a.m.
Participants can run, cycle, roller-blade, and walk distances of 2, 4, or 8 km. Participants are encouraged to raise funds with pledges that will go towards cancer research.
Fox hailed from Port Coquitlam and was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma which led to the amputation of his leg. After realizing that more research was needed to combat cancer, Fox embarked on a journey across the country to raise money, and awareness, and foster hope.
The Marathon of Hope began in St. John's, Newfoundland where Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean on April 12, 1980. Unfortunately, when cancer returned to his lungs, Fox was unable to finish the marathon and was forced to end the Marathon of Hope on Sept.1, 1980, outside Thunder Bay, Ont. after logging 5,373 kilometres.
Not only did Fox achieve his goal of every Canadian donating one dollar to cancer research before his death on June 28, 1981, but his legacy has had a profound impact on cancer research, having sparked Terry Fox runs across the world and throughout Canada, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars being raised for cancer research.
