Students in schools had the opportunity to connect with Fred Fox, brother of Terry Fox, and hear about how the Terry Fox Run has grown and what it has done for cancer research.
“It was amazing to be up in The Pas talking with the students,” said Fox. “I do a lot of travelling throughout the year across the country and I’ve always said, we can’t just go to the big city centers. We need to get out and about to all the smaller communities in between. The Pas has been as far north as I’ve ever been in Manitoba, so it was great to be there.
“To this extent, this will be my 16th year of doing this. I’ve been speaking at schools since the mid-90s, but travelling across the country now, as my mom used to do, it’s been about 16 years. This is the 45th Anniversary of the Terry Fox Run. Terry started his run in 1980, and then the very first Terry Fox Runs happened in 1981.”