A Walnut Grove Secondary School teacher has pledged to donate $25 for every student who reigns victorious in a challenge during Friday鈥檚 school-based Terry Fox run.
Walnut Grove students have been fundraising for the Terry Fox Foundation ahead of Friday鈥檚 school run, but they will have an opportunity to increase their current $16,000 donation total when they meet with physical education teacher Terry Stead at station three on the course.
The run, organized on school grounds, is set up to include six stations. Students will begin at station one where they will participate in a matching activity before racing off to the dunk tank at station two, but it鈥檚 station three where students have an opportunity to add to the fundraising total.
At station three students will go head-to-head against Stead in a water balloon fight, a sprint race, a ping-pong match among other challenges 鈥� for each student victory Baker will donate $25 to the cause.
鈥淚t鈥檚 been run by Rosemary Davis for several years, but she鈥檚 retiring this year,鈥� Baker said about the event. 鈥淪o we wanted to go out in as much of a bang as we could.鈥�
Davis has 鈥渃hampioned the Terry Fox cause for decades,鈥� school-principal Logan Kitteringham told the 91原创 Advance Times. He credits Davis with helping the school raise more than $267,000 for the foundation during her time there.
鈥淵ou will hear her story in the video,鈥� Kitteringham added, referring to the video the school produced about the history of Terry Fox.
It was important to staff this annual event carried on despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19.
鈥淲e did not want to see this long standing tradition stop because of the pandemic,鈥� Kitteringham said. 鈥淲e also needed to badly boost morale for both staff and students.鈥�
Students will complete the run at station six where they will be met with donuts from Tim Hortons.
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