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Sun shines for 35th Annual Terry Fox Run Craig Spence the chronicle
The clouds parted and the sun shone for the 35th Terry Fox Run, which set out from at Frank Jameson Community Centre Sept. 20, with dozens of participants signing up, warming up, then heading out onto the 2.5 kilometer track to complete one, two, three or four laps. Mayor Aaron Stone said he participated in his first run when he was a student at Davis Road Elementary School, and that the spirit of Terry Fox has been with him ever since. “Terry’s spirit and determination really shows the best of what being a Canadian means,” he said. He introduced one of Ladysmith’s most fervent participants in the Terry Fox Run Glenda Patterson, who was sporting the T-shirt she wore in the first ever run she participated in about 30 years ago. A cancer survivor herself – she is currently taking treatment for a relapse – Patterson buoyed the crowd with her own story, and her dedication to the memory of Terry Fox. “I’ve always loved, respected and been encouraged by Terry Fox,” Patterson told the crowd. “He’s definitely one of my idols.” Patterson watches the Terry Fox movie every year, and every year it rekindles hope. She recalled how the movie portrayed Fox observing the faces of children in the cancer clinic where he was receiving treatment, and determined to do something to alleviate the fear and realize the hopes he saw in their eyes. “This is when he decided, ‘I’m going to make this better, and I’m going to do this run. I’m going to help whoever I can to battle cancer’,” Patterson recalled. She is a retired nurse, who has worked with cancer patients herself, so Fox’s resolve resonates, and for Patterson, seeing his run continued is a heart-warming experience. By joining in the run, participants are continuing his legacy, and his battle against cancer. “We shall never forget Terry, and shall continue to keep his dream alive,” she said. Then she quoted Fox himself, saying, “We can beat cancer, all of us, all together.” Event organizer Anita McLeod, the Town of Ladysmith’s community services coordinator, reminded participants that Patterson is one of Terry Fox’s ‘team’. “That’s what people who are cancer survivors in Canada and all over the world are called, is Terry’s Team, and you are one of our favorite members,” she told Patterson. A media kit put out for the 35th Terry Fox Run, recalled some of the history and achievements of the event. See Terry Fox, Page 3
Beyond Your Expectations
Participants set off on the 35th annual Terry Fox Run Sunday, Sept. 20, from Frank Jameson Community Centre after a pep talk, a fuel up – compliments of 49th Parallel Grocery and McDonald’s – and a warm up. They were heading onto a 2.5 km track to complete one, two, three or four circuits raising funds in the fight against cancer. Craig Spence
Artisan Village back on drawing board Craig Spence
proposal is to allow about 35 single family, fee simple lots in the Chapman Road portion of the overall developChemainus and area residents got a ment plan. chance to look over a revised develop- “Right now it’s zoned for strata dement proposal for the Artisan Village velopment,” Clement said during the project at a Sept. 15 open house. open house. “The new one is to allow Developer Chris Clement, has had an for roughly 35 single family lots.” There interest in the 13.5 hectare site, which would still be 12 strata units ‘at the end’ fronts mostly on Chemainus Road be- of the site, he said. tween Elm St. to the east and Chapman “Other than that, on the other side Road to the west, since 2007. of the property, nothing at all is being North Cowichan Council approved changed at all for the zoning,” he added. a 428 unit, $80 million strata-housing A trail system within the development project on the site in January, 2011. will be ‘more natural’ and provide betThen the project was expected to get ter access from the development to underway in the spring of 2012, with an Chemainus. 80-unit development as the first phase. The trails will be surfaced with comBut to date shovels have not turned pacted gravel and a bridge will be any sod, and before they do, Clement is built across Askew Creek, which cuts hoping to get a revised plan approved through the property by North Cowichan council. “So people can walk from the ChapOne of the requested changes to the man Road side, all the way to down-
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town Chemainus, via the trail,” Clement said. As in the original proposal, what is known as ‘the Hermit Trail’ will be preserved. “We’ll have a company hired to come in and do a report on North Cowichan’s behalf, because at the end of the day, they are going to be the ones that own it,” Clement said. The report will consider safety issues around use of the trail so that it can be brought “to a standard, when North Cowichan takes it over, that they’re happy with.” Added Clement, “We’re going to keep the ambiance and the natural beauty of the Hermit Trail.” Consideration is being given to bringing a paved access to the trail behind one of the bordering strata developments to provide wheelchair access. See Artisan Village, Page 3
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