Mark your calendars, and turn out to support the annual Terry Fox Run. Salt Spring's run is held this year on Sunday, September 12th...walk, run, help organize, step forward however you're able. This is one of Canada's major fundraisers for Cancer Research. I was very lucky to have seen Terry Fox during his historic run across Canada, east to west, and in an evocative moment, shortly before it was reported that his cancer had returned, and so the run ended.... I was driving across Canada, west to east, and on a lonely stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway, in northern Ontario, a long undulating ribbon of road, those "all the same size" racing green trees found in Ontario edging the highway, few cars, and there, alone (he had apparently insisted that his support vehicle remain well behind him), with that lurching gait, came Terry Fox, heading west.... He was totally focused, within two days the run was called off...he must have been in pain...we gave all the cash we had with us to the support vehicle, a few minutes farther along...none of us spoke...tears were near. To see that run, at the side of the road, alone in the wilderness, no cameras, no crowds, just perseverence and committment...how lucky to have really seen him and to have been inspired.... This Sunday, do what you can and give what you can, for the memory of a great Canadian, the courageous Terry Fox. Continue his run....