On my way to Mohawk College in Stoney Creek, where I was teaching ESL, I saw a van marked TERRY Fox with a young man standing in front of it. I looked to see if Terry was running towards it.
As I couldn’t wait for I would have been late for school, I didn’t see him. I felt fortunate that he was running through Burlington on that day, and I was grateful that I happened to see his van for what Terry was doing, running across Canada on a prosthesis to raise money for cancer research was not only admirable but truly self-giving. I started to collect for cancer research then, and am happy to make a monthly donation to help, as cancer is such a debilitating and lethal disease, which many people suffer from and die of.