Lambrick Park secondary school did the Terry Fox Run a little differently this year.
On Thursday, April 12, the high school joined forces with two if its feeder schools, Gordon Head middle and Torquay elementary, as nearly 1,000 students combined for a group run to the Mount Douglas Park beach. Once there, students dipped their toes in the Salish Sea, just as Terry Fox dipped his artificial right leg in the Atlantic Ocean near St. JohnB次元官网网址檚, Nfld., starting his run on April 12 of 1980.
Lambrick Park has participated in the national Terry Fox Run for 38 years (which happens in September), but this year Lambrick decided to change things up. Students sold $2 bracelets (minimum).
By tragic chance, the run also fell on what was national jersey day, as most members of the school wore a sports jersey to honour the 16 dead from the weekendB次元官网网址檚 Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus crash.
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One student who had planned on being there was Kiera OB次元官网网址機onnor, a . OB次元官网网址機onnor, who is recovering after intense chemotherapy to fight nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma, was set to partake but felt dizzy and had to undergo close monitoring this week. That meant traveling to Vancouver.
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Kiera is also friends with a 17-year-old named Spencer who is also fighting bone cancer in Vancouver.
For Lambrick Park, the run was a big success said athletic director Gary Baker, who organized it.
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All three schools are part of the same catchment family, and are excited to continue this as an annual tradition to raise ongoing attention and money for the Terry Fox Foundation, Baker added.
Among those participating in the run were a team of track runners from OttawaB次元官网网址檚 Immaculata High School. The team is on an exchange that sees Lambrick students get the opportunity to visit Ottawa. The Immaculata students visited the local sights of Victoria and were first (of hundreds) to dip their toes in the water on ThursdayB次元官网网址檚 run.
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