VIDEO: 44th Annual Terry Fox Run in Brockville Raises Over $13,000 on Sunday

Brockville – $13,700 was raised from Sunday’s 44th Annual Terry Fox Run in Brockville.

Over 70 people participated in the run on Sunday starting at the Thousand Islands Secondary School (TISS) Track for a lap led by piper Stewart Nimmo before heading out for the 5km run/walk.

Ted Raby, the organizer of the Brockville Terry Fox Run for the last eight years, and who has survived cancer twice, spoke to the runners just before the run began on Sunday.

The route saw runners/walkers leave TISS and head down Parkedale to the Brock Trail, to Laurier then to Windsor and finished up back at TISS.

Brockville has been hosting a Terry Fox Run since 1981, just a year after Terry Fox ended his Marathon of Hope in September of 1980 when his cancer returned. Nine months later, on June 28, 1981, aged 22, Terry Fox died of cancer.

Before his death, Terry had achieved his once unimaginable goal of $1 from every Canadian. More importantly, he had set in motion the framework for an event, The Terry Fox Run, that would ignite cancer research in Canada, raising more than $900 million since 1980, and bring hope and health to millions of Canadians.