Terry Fox Run seeks community organizer

The Terry Fox Foundation is looking for someone to host the local virtual Terry Fox Run in September.
In recent years the event has been organized by Keddy Williams, who is stepping aside but is happy to consult with anyone willing to take it on.
“With all honesty, though, I do not feel it makes sense for me to be organizing this run. I love Creemore, yet it is really not my true community… I feel someone connected to your special town much more suited to organizing the run,” said Williams.
Keddy said it is not a big commitment to organize the event and she has many resources that she can share to make the transition easy.
The Terry Fox Run is always held on the second Sunday after Labour Day, on the anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, during which Terry Fox ran close to a marathon a day for 143 days.
The 2021 event will not be in person, but participants are encouraged to run wherever they want, whenever they want, on the day of the run. That mean that there is no need to set up a course this year. People are urged to collect donations and participate in whatever way they want. The local run has always welcomed runners, walkers, roller-bladers, and equestrians to do a five- or 10-kilometre route.
The Creemore event is small but participants manage to raise quite a bit of money. Since 1982, when the event was held in Terra Nova before it was moved to Creemore, more than $90,000 has been raised for cancer research through the local event.
To volunteer as run organizer, contact Ontario community events coordinator Kim Smith at kim@terryfoxrun.org or call 1-888-836-9786 ext. 227.