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THE TERRY FOX

MARATHON OF HOPE

1980 - TERRY FOX ARRIVES IN MARMORA

MARMORA HERALD, JULY 9, 1980

Do You Remember?

"I remember that event. 1980. I was 6 years old and we saw Terry Fox on Hwy. 7 at the gas station that I believe was owned by the Morrisons" - Jenny Bedore Hyland

" I was there too on Hwy 7 at Tiffin Road." - Paul Scott

"I was there - just before Marmora on the hwy 7 at KOA turnoff" - Marilyn Reynolds

" I was there. I was 4. We watched him arrive at the IGA. I remember him standing on the loading area speaking. There were people everywhere. Big garbage bags were being passed around and being filled with donations." Jeanette Rodine Fluke

" I wasn't there...my Mom, Cathy Callfas, asked me if I wanted to go, but me...thinking that this was just someone who was a nobody not really proving anything, a short lived event... said No. I just couldn't have been bothered wasting my time. Boy, I was I wrong!!!" Barb Callfas Duff

Since his death on June 21, 1981, the Terry Fox name has been added to B.C. mountain, 83 kilometers of the Tran-Canada Highway, a Fed. Gov. $5,000,000.00 endowment fund, two Canadian postage stamps, a Canadian Coast Guard ship, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, 14 schools and 15 roads in Canada. By May of 2014, over $650,000.00 had been raised for Cancer Research in the name of Terry Fox.

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With a history 35 year history in Marmora (2015), the Terry Fox Run has produced dedicated individuals who have raised many thousands of dollars. Here are a few -

Joyce Marshall

MICKEY MALONEY, GLEN MEIKLEJOHN

FRANCES SINE

2002 mICKEY mALONEY, gLEN fOSTER, kAREN kELLY, lLOYD mCcOY

LLOYD McCOY (who still heads the event)

#OnThisDay – July 6, 1980 – 26 miles – Madoc, ON, Day 86

Yesterday, Terry faces his toughest interviewer yet: 12-year-old Peter Sutton of Madoc, Ontario. Terry is clearly great with children because he answers every question (such as “Are you married or single?”) patiently and with a big smile. He talks about what it’s like to run or walk with an artificial leg, and about how it can be hard to get out of bed every day at 4 a.m. knowing he has to run yet another 26 miles. Terry ends by saying, so simply but powerfully, “I’m trying to be an example, and a good example, to people.”

If you need a moment of delight today, click here https://tinyurl.com/uxyw87jr

"Today was a great day. I finished in Havelock. In Marmora at my 12-mile break, I was given a fabulous reception and a church organ played "He's got the whole world in his hands." All day I had tremendous receptions. We raised $700 on the road today."

Video Credit: Gordon Pigden
Photo Credit: Kristi Reid

Thanks to Tyler Doyle for passing this on