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Terry Fox Run 2020

This year marked the 40th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. We have typically led a YHS run/walk in the neighborhood as a whole school community. Due to COVID-19, our Terry Fox Run was held in small groups during our PHE (Physical & Health Education) classes on September 29th and 30th. We were delighted that we were still able to join together as a YHS community to support the Terry Fox Foundation, an organization that supports cancer research, and honours the people we know and have known and loved who have lived with cancer.

With the generous donations of Junior and Senior School students, YHS raised $1900.00 to donate to the Terry Fox Foundation.

Thank you to Tahlia and Riley, our Community Service Captains in the Senior School, who helped organize the event. Thank you also to our Physical Health Education Teachers who held the event in their classrooms. Congratulations to the whole school community for supporting this wonderful annual community-building event!

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Terry Fox Run

YHS joined together as a community for the Terry Fox Run on September 24. We gathered to celebrate perseverance, to honour people who are experiencing or have experienced cancer, in particular, our beloved Megan Dalziel, and to support cancer research. Stations along the route had posters indicating each province of Canada from east to west. Terry Fox began his run in Newfoundland and ran as far as Thunder Bay, Ontario when he was forced to stop his Marathon of Hope due to the spread of his cancer. In his name, and in the name of other loved ones who have lived with and fought cancer, we finished the journey across Canada as a community.  

A big thank you to everyone for making this year’s Terry Fox Run such a fun, meaningful, and successful event. Special thanks to House Captains Dana and Chloe; Junior Head Girl Kate; Junior Vice Head Hannah; and all our fantastic staff who directed students out on the course or walked and ran with them. This event wouldn’t be possible without you all.  

Thank you all for supporting a very important cause: Terry Fox’s dream of a world without cancer.