Cyclist rides from Alta. to Sask. to support children’s hospitals and organizations
Graham Tait’s epic eight day bike tour stopped in the Gateway to the North when he paid visit to a building that will benefit from his roughly 1,400 kilometre journey.
The cyclist stopped into the Ronald McDonald Family Room on Aug 5. as part of his tour Minds Matter Bike Tour between Calgary and Emma Lake. Tait is riding to advocate and fundraise for children and adolescent mental health.
“I’m trying to help out my youngest boy and a lot of kids with serious mental illness,” Tait said. “I know quite a few kids with cancer and serious illness that also suffer from mental illness… there’s a real connection there.”
He said his goal was to get people to think about the connections between serious illnesses and mental illnesses like depression or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which can accompany diagnoses.