UPDATE: The numbers are in and St. Anthony’s School has gone over and above on fundraising for the Terry Fox Foundation this year. According to Maureen Peters, an Educational Assistant with St. Anthony’s and organizer for the annual Terry Fox Run, they raised $15,059.90 this year. This is the largest amount raised in the 20 years of their Terry Fox Run. “These guys went above and beyond. I’m blown away, in this economic time. Everybody pooled together and worked hard. We had some kids that went way above and beyond and it ended up an amazing amount of money raised for cancer research.”
Peters can’t thank the community enough for the support. “Drumheller, thank you for supporting our kids. They come and knock on your doors and you help this fundraiser. It’s amazing the community support.
With the over $5,000 raised at DVSS and over $5,200 at Greentree School, over $25,000 was raised in Drumheller for the Terry Fox Foundation!
St. Anthony’s School has been known for years and years as a top fundraising school for the Terry Fox Foundation.
This year’s Terry Fox Run took place on the morning of Wednesday, September 25th. Prior to their run, they had an assembly in the gymnasium where a number of speakers shared their story about being a cancer survivor. One of those is Peter Gruber and he was so honoured to be able to share his story. “Today was kind of an honour for myself, to have a venue like this to talk to all the kids, just stressing the importance of what it is for the Terry Fox Run and the research is done with the money that’s raised for that. For cancer survivors, like myself, so we can feel a little bit better that maybe one day down the road they can find a cure.”
St. Anthony’s has raised nearly $200,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation since they began the Terry Fox Run and Gruber is proud to have connections to the school through his family. “I’ve got ties to this school, because my kids went to this school, and when I read that,$191,000, I went ‘that’s pretty good for a small town’. Put the challenge out there, some of these other schools and even larger centres, step up to the plate and get those dollars rolling.”
The Terry Fox Run has been going on in Canada for over 40 years and Gruber believes that the message still resonates with the students. “Standing there talking to them, when I mentioned to them ‘how many people have been touched by cancer’, how many hands went up. That was a lot of hands. So you can’t tell me that it doesn’t resonate with them, it’s definitely there.”
No word on the total raised this year by St. Anthony’s School as of yet but once the totals come in, we will provide an update. St. Anthony’s School has been in the top five of schools fundraising for the Terry Fox Foundation for a number of years in Alberta. This year, the Running Room from Calgary also provided a start/finish arch for the event.
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