Terry Fox Run organizer prepares for his 44th fundraiser: ‘I’ve been in every one.’
For most, the Terry Fox Run is just an annual fundraiser for cancer research. But for Prince Albert’s Vern Hodgins, it’s a much more meaningful event – one that he hasn’t missed since the very first run in 1981.
“I taught Terry Fox’s message of perseverance and endurance and courage and hope, and never giving up to my kids at school when I was teaching,” said Hodgins. “And I’m a cancer survivor myself, and I, like everybody else, know lots of people who’ve had cancer and Terry Fox is Canada’s greatest hero in my opinion.
This will be my 44th Terry Fox Run. I’ve been in every one.”