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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-09-16, Page 18*Entertainment *Feature ®Religion *Family ®More SECTION GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1987 Goderich's Terry Fox Run held Sunday was a success with over 70 participants jogging, biking and walking. Top, left, is an unidentified man after his run and right, Roberta Stemp, Patrick Glazier and Loretta McHenry "warming down" after the run.(photos by Yvette Zandbergen) Terry Fox Run raises almost $3,000 Cross-section participate Pictured from top, clockwise, Dr. Jim Rourke and son Patrick biked the 10 kilometres together; Susan Freeman McKee, Graham McKee, on bike and Janice Dunbar start out on their walk; Eleven -year-old Brad Bell registers for the run with CarollDavidson, registrar of the Goderich Kinette Club; Laurie, Marianne and Patrick Glazier begin their walk from the mall.(photos by Yvette Zandbergen) BY YVETTE ZANOBERGEN Seventy-three people biked, walked and jogged in Goderi-eh's-seventh 'aznrua1-Terry- Fox Run Sunday raising $2955.50 towards cancer research. • The annual_ Terry Fox Run, sponsored by the Goderich Kinette Club, raised $1,300 over last year. The number participating, 13 more than last year, included 10 from Bluewater Centre, who raised $274. Debbie McPhee, co-ordinator for the run, on behalf of the Kinsmen Club, said she was hoping to double the amount from last year's run but is very pleased with the results. "We had super Public 13:elations • this year," she said. "People like to participate because of Terry Fox himself." According to McPhee, GDCI was a big contributer this year. John Smallwood col- lected $235 from students and staff for his run. A cross-section of Goderich's residents took part in the run. Sunday for various reasons. Janice Dunbar was a first year partici- pant and got involved ."for fun" because she thought it would be worthwhile. She walked the route with Susan Freeman McKee and five-year-old Graham McKee. who received a new bike for his birthday and took advantage of the run to get used to his new possession. Although Dunbar said she was walking the route, she added she would probably have to run to keep up with Graham. - Eleven year old Brad Bell was also in the run for the first time and he rode his bike. He said he got involved "just for fun." Laurie Glazier participating for the fifth year in a row, got involved through her sister. She called the run a "challenge" and planned on walking the 10 kilometres but had jogged in earlier years. Walking with Laurie was Marianne Glazier for the first time. She was involved in fitness all summer and thought she would try the run to see if she could really do it. The run proved to be a family affair for the Dobie family. The father, Gerald, started the run in 1982 because he felt it was something he should do and it made him "feel good." He is no longer walking - -solo -because--his-wifa, Marie, daughter -s - Keri and Kim Hunking and her husband Ron and two children, Shawn and Sarah joined him on Sunday. Prizes were also awarded to some this year. Leon Sprung won. a gift certificate from Robindales and a certificate from Pizza Delight for having the most pledges totalling $281; Linda, Patrick had the se- cond most pledges, $250.50, and won a cer- tificate from Home Hardware and a Ptizza Delight certificate; one -year-old Sarah Hunking won the prize for youngest par- ticipant, a pair of shorts from Goderich Windsurfing and a Pizza Delight cer- tificate; Kase Vanden Heuvel, 61, won two VHS tapes from Radio Shack and a Pizza Delight Certificate for being the oldest participant. A random draw was also held including thenames of all participants and Chuck MacLennan won a one year membership at Star Time Video. The 'Terry Fox Run has an exciting history,On July 28th, 1958, Terrence Stanley Fox was born. Nineteen years later, Terry's right leg was amputated six inches above the ,knee. In March, 1979, he began a running program to prepare for his Marathon of Hope. During his training, he ran over 4,828 kilometre's (3,000 miles.) In 1979, he wrote to the Canadian Cancer Society explaining why he wanted to run across Canada. He decided to attempt to run across Canada to help people with cancer. In St. John's, Newfoundland, April 20 1980, he dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic and set out on an odyssey that took him two thirds of the way across Canada and across six provinces. After 144 days and 3,339 miles, he hadto stop runn- ing outside Thunder Bay. The medical diagnosis shocked the ndtion. The cancer had spread to his lungs. Terry Fox died at the Royal Columbian Hospital, Westminister, B.C. on June 28. 1981. September 13, 1981 was the first Terry Fox Run. More than 760 Terry Fox Run sites of 10 kilometres each are set up across Canada in honour of Terry. Cana- dians raise $3.5 million for the Terry Fox "Marathon of Hope Fund." Terry's hope of raising $1 from from every Canadian to fight cancer was realized on December 31, 1981. The population of. Canada was 24.1 million, the Terry Fox "Marathon of Hope',' Fund totalled $24.17 million. The "Marathon of Hope" fund totalled $27.8 million on April 20, 1982 and nearly $21 million has been allocated to cancer research projects in the Terry Fox New In- itiative Programs of the National Cancer Institute of Canada. Last year's run, held on September 14, was.a great success. A total of $3.8 million was raised by 284,500 participants at over 2,000 Run sites throughout Canada and the world. WILLIAM THOMAS Modern Mountie still gets man The headline on the newspaper article - brought a flood of wistful images to mind - "Americans To Honour Mountie For Ar- resting Fugitive in Yukon." Light on detail and circumstances, the story told of a Corporal Dan Fudge who would be presented with a medal by Washington for capturing their number four most -wanted man. Although I was reading the words, 1 was liste'hink to a big, wooden radio and , it was 1954. There was a gunshot, it ricocheted and the booming voice of the announcer cut in "Now, as gunshots echo across the windswept, snow-covered reaches of the wild northwest, Quaker Puffed Wheat..." Another gunshot, another ricochet... "...and Quaker Puff- ed Rice..." Gunshot, ricochet...•' the j breakfast cereal shot from guns..." Two gunshots... "Presents Sergeant Yukon , King, the swiftest and strongest lead dog . in the Northwest blazing the trail for Sergeant Preston in his relentless pursuit 6I of lawbreakers!" The voice of Sergeant Preston "On King! On you huskies!" Ah, the times they have a changed. For those were the days when a Moun- tie would snowshoe to the end of the Arc- tic to capture an ugly brute who's slap- ped a"saloon girl in Whitehorse and left.' town in the middle of the night with the t bartender's semi-precious glass eye. This was before Mounties settled into; careers of .opening mail, bugging' telephones and directing traffic at Pear- - son- Ihteu,atiortal- _ Those were the days a Mountie always got his man with the help of his faithful Malemute lead -dog. Today of course that dog would be a pit bull terrier and the dog would get the man and the Mountie and the announcer with the booming voice. Yukon King was a beauty of a beast mauling crooks and ne'erdowells, cor- 1 nering one bushwhacker while Sergeant Preston collared the other. And always in the background was the majestic music ( that portrayed the pure pagentry of the Northwest Mounties, the yapping of ; hungry sled dogs' and the , gun- s. shot/ricochet, gunshot/ricochet) breakfast cereal shot from guns. I guess that's what bothered me most about the newspaper account of the cap- ture in Teslin - n0 music, no Puffed Rice, no Puffed Wheat, nor Yukon King. - I'm sure Corporal Fudge, though the name rules him out as successor to Sergeant Preston if they ever resurrect the show, is a good Mountie. I mean he got his man. And the man was wanted by everybody from Interpol on down to a Becker's Bomar -guard. But dammit, he did it on a tip. Sergeant Preston would never have ac- cepted a tip. Sergeant Preston would have said that was tattling, snitching, un- fair and unworthy of the badge. "Heel King! Heel Big Fella! If we can't catch 'em fair and square, we'll let the varmit go." That's what Sergeant Preston would have said to a tip. And Corporal Fudge was not wearing mucklucks or snowshoes or a parka with the butt of a rifle sticking out the back. Okay, so it was a hot day in August, we'll give him that one. And another thing. Sergeant Preston in furs and skins on a dogsled would track a villain to the snowcapped peaks of Kilimanjaro if he had to and if air time permitted. Corporal Fudge got up one morning, got into his tan '87 standard issue Mountie sedan, drove to downtown Teslin (which I suppose is a caution light over a wooden statue of an Indian 1 and he arrested Charles McVey. According to the article, Corporal Fudge got a tip that known fugitive and treasonist Charles McVey was in the town of Teslin on a fishing trip. He's told two things about the man - he's an avid fisherman and he weighs 375 pounds. I looked Teslin up on the map and it wasn't there: So how many people can there be in Teslin? Let's say 15 people. With only the sketchy news story to go by and in the absence Of truth and reality I recreate for you the fleeting free moments of an alleged traitor's life. Corporal, Fudge has taken attendance in Teslin. There's 16 people in town ( Music, dom-dee-dom-dom! High drama) One too many! (A car door slams) He ambles over to the one most unfamiliar face ( heretofore known as the stranger) and he notices two things about the man - he's grossly overweight and he's wearing a hat with trout flies pinned on it. Suspicion builds. ( High pitched music 1 "Say stranger, what kind of a lure would you use to catch a muskie?" (Shuf= fling feet in place ) Stranger: "A Meps red squiggler." An avid fisherman, Fudge says, to himself. A gunshot/ricochet shatters the• silence. Stranger: "What in the name of Glostnast was that?" Fudge: "Just crazy Carl Findley shooting rats in the dump." ( More music) "So stranger, have you missed' any meals lately?" Stranger: "Nope.'' Grossly overweight, Fudge thinks to himself, and a slight trace of an American accent. A dog barks. But it's a stray dog trying Turn to page 2 • A • 1 d