Terry Fox runs

Schools around the area held their Terry Fox Runs last week to honour the legacy of a Canadian hero. Fox began his Marathon of Hope in 1980, striving to run across Canada, raising one dollar for each person in Canada for cancer research. He had lost a log to cancer and ran the equivalent of a marathon a day on a rudimentary prosthetic leg. The cancer reappeared in his lungs, and he was forced to stop his run outside Thunder Bay, Ontario. He passed away in June of 1981, and that September, the first Terry Fox Runs were held across Canada. Pictured are the Stavely Elementary School run at Pine Coulee west of Stavely on Sept. 21; the Willow Creek Composite High School Run on Sept. 23; and the West Meadow Elementary School run on Sept. 23.

Photos by Rob Vogt and submitted