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Riders return Arnold Lim News staff
It’s sure to be an emotional finale when Reynolds vice-principal Dean Norris-Jones arrives to a high school gym full of avid supporters today. Thirteen days into the Cops for Cancer, Tour de Rock, only hours remain before the 24 riders peddle the final stretch into Centennial Square after travelling more than 1,000 kilometres across Vancouver Island to raise funds for paediatric cancer research. “I really hope that I can hold it together, I doubt that I can,” Norris-Jones said. “I get a little bit choked up thinking about it right now. Clearly, there is a lot of anticipation and I am very, very excited about it. … This journey that I have been on has been so amazing.” Norris-Jones has been a key member of the fundraising machine at Reynolds for the better part of a decade. Last year, the school raised more than $100,000 in their Tour de Rock efforts. The teachers’ strike dampened fundraising efforts this year, but organizers still hope to raise at least
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Reynolds vice-principal and Tour de Rock rider Dean Norris-Jones, left, expects a raucous homecoming as the tour makes a stop at the school today. Saanich police Const. Heather Hunter, right, leads the 24 riders on an up-Island trek earlier this week. $50,000 for a cause that also supports Camp Goodtimes, a summer camp for kids with cancer. Norris-Jones expects the Reynolds visit, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today, to be a proud moment, as he greets many students he hasn’t seen since the teachers’ strike began last June. Joining NorrisJones will be RCMP officers in red serge, a marching band and
a thousand people, many of them students, whom have spent countless hours fundraising in the runup to Norris-Jones’ entry not just as a teacher and cancer survivor, but as a rider for the first and only time. Traditionally, the Thursday before tour served as a massive head shave for the school, and the school visits by Tour riders
were Norris-Jones’ two favourite days of the year. Despite having to miss this year’s head shave on Thursday, those feelings have’t changed. “I am just so proud of the Reynolds community and I think that going in there will be my proudest hour. I can’t think of a better way for them to think of their citizenship and their social responsibil-
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ity than helping other kids,” he said. “(When the team rides into the gym) we might have to get the building inspector to check the foundations because it might shake a little bit too much.” See tourderock.ca for a full schedule of events, or head to Centennial Square in Victoria for 5 p.m. to take part in the finale.
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