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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; Big crowd, big bucks at 2025 Terry Fox Run&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286554.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Last year, it attracted approximately 160 participants and raised $11,000, making the 2024 iteration one of the busiest and most lucrative to date.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286621.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But that, as it turns out, was just a warm-up for 2025, unfolding this past Sunday along the pretty northern stretch of the Penticton Channel Trail.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286550.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This year, the event crushed every other local Fox Run in recent memory. In the end, 200-plus runners/walkers/rollers passed through the start/finish line and an impressive $15,000 was raised for cancer research.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286619.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;It was absolutely Terryific,&amp;quot; smiled veteran organizer Kevin Harvey after it was all over.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; The guy who makes the Penticton Run go, Kevin Harvey&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286625.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Harvey&amp;#39;s seen the event through some lean times &amp;ndash; and a pandemic &amp;ndash; in his nine years at the helm, but he&amp;#39;s never stopped pushing, never stopped building and rebuilding.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286547.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Even when it&amp;#39;s been comparatively quiet, he&amp;#39;s remained enthusiastic.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286562.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I was a deer in the headlights in my first year,&amp;quot; he said Sunday. &amp;quot;I saw an ad in the paper for a new organizer, and I thought it would be such a shame if it didn&amp;rsquo;t go on.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286564.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One other thing. Harvey, a longtime runner who admittedly idolizes the courageous Marathon of Hope creator, has participated in &amp;quot;just about every year&amp;quot; of the Terry Fox Run himself since he came to Canada from Britain in 1981.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286572.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The more you get to know about Terry, the more you love him,&amp;quot; said Harvey. &amp;quot;I dare anyone to search around and find something bad about Terry. You just won&amp;#39;t.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#39;t hurt its popularity that the Penticton edition also has guys like Steve King &amp;ndash; potentially the best endurance sport broadcaster in the country &amp;ndash; calling the shots and pumping up the mood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; The amazing Steve King at the mic&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286622.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Other notables in the 2025 crowd included Penticton Vees&amp;#39; owner, triathlon pioneer and&amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Drinkwater&amp;quot; producer Graham Fraser and Penticton councilor Campbell Watt.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But it was Pentictonite Karen Boyd who most moved us during Sunday&amp;#39;s pre-event hangout.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; Karen Boyd (centre) and friends&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286614.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Boyd was one in a group of five friends taking on this year&amp;#39;s event. And like many, her experience with cancer hits very close to home.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I started teaching in &amp;#39;87,&amp;quot; she explained, &amp;quot;and every year we would come (to the Fox Run) with students.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; Penticotn Vees owner Graham Fraser hits the trail&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286593.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And through the years, it&amp;#39;s always been in memory of somebody important in my life who was taken&amp;hellip;or sometimes cured.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;But today is very special. Today I&amp;#39;m running for a former student and friend of mine, Rae-Marie Lecomte.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286599.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Lecomte, said Boyd, was one of her first students back in the day. Sadly, she was forced to battle cancer much of her life.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She ended up at Children&amp;#39;s Hospital (in Vancouver) with cancer throughout her sinus cavities,&amp;quot; said Boyd.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286568.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;At that time they didn&amp;rsquo;t have teachers there, so I was young and unattached and I&amp;rsquo;d go down on weekends and do some teaching with her. She was just 15 at the time.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Over the years, Boyd and Lecomte would become good friends. And together they&amp;#39;d feel elation when Lecomte was declared cancer-free and grief when it would return.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286542.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;She was a lovely person who lived life to the max,&amp;quot; said Boyd, &amp;quot;and she was very good at exploring the medical system and exploring alternative systems. She believed in healing and energy, and she really advocated for herself.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But earlier this year, the cancer that threatened her from youth could no longer be denied. And at the age of 52, the disease finally claimed Rae-Marie Lecomte.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286569.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And on this day, her good friend Karen Boyd, teary-eyed but proud and with four friends also touched by the disease, ran for her old buddy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not far from Boyd&amp;#39;s group was another &amp;ndash; a boisterous bunch that called themselves, quite creatively, the &amp;quot;Foxy Ladies.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; The Foxy Ladies&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286617.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I&amp;#39;ve been doing the Terry Fox Run for years,&amp;quot; said lead Foxy Lady Tera Lund. &amp;quot;He&amp;#39;s a Canadian icon.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Now as a group we&amp;#39;ve been doing it for three. And the team grows every year. We have survivors and we have members who&amp;#39;ve experienced it in their lives. I don&amp;#39;t think there are many who don&amp;#39;t.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286530.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For 2025, Lund and the Foxy Ladies went big. They raised more than $1,000.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But there were out-of-towners too. Like partners Bart Sutherland and Torunn Andersen of Victoria.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt; Bart Sutherland and Torunn Andersen in a pre-run hug&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286628.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;#39;ve done ten Terry Fox Runs over there,&amp;quot; said Bart. &amp;quot;And today we were on holidays, just staying down the road, when we heard Steve King and said to ourselves &amp;#39;we know that voice.&amp;#39;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Turns out they&amp;rsquo;ve each run dozens of marathons and long-distance races in the past couple decades. And they&amp;#39;re both part of the Royal Victoria Marathon organizing committee.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286571.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So knowing Steve King is almost a given.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And as they say,&amp;quot; added Bart, &amp;quot;Steve never forgets a name or a face. So he recognized me as soon as I walked up to the table.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286584.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Like everyone we met at the event, each knows all too well the impact of cancer. Sutherland&amp;nbsp;lost his mom to the disease almost 40 years ago and his brother just a couple months ago. Andersen&amp;#39;s sister is fighting it right now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#39;s what drove them &amp;ndash; and so many others &amp;ndash; forward this past Sunday in a version of the Penticton Terry Fox Run that won&amp;#39;t soon be forgotten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286543.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For more on the Penticton Terry Fox Run and/or to donate even now, &lt;a href=&quot;https://run.terryfox.ca/93035?fbclid=IwY2xjawMuxlRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwOHJWMkxwUG1zczd6aXlPAR5vaMSjFP21HySvRclinEhQqQbFBJKuGowb-NeLVedObvo6BYCZvyVYCpqSKA_aem_rNC09Tb9A_Z3PCYS65LVEg&quot;&gt;turn here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&amp;lt;who&amp;gt;Photo Credit: NowMedia/Gord Goble&amp;lt;/who&amp;gt;&quot; src=&quot;/files/files/images/20250914-286551.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin: 5px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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