CBC TV is showing a tv special about Terry Fox on Friday Night - from 8pm to 10pm. It's difficult finding any details about it, but I think this is the one produced by Moyra Rodger who produced the Gung Haggis Fat Choy tv special in 2004. Here's a media release from www.publicairwaves.ca about the planned events that are being scaled back because for the CBC lock-out.
I have really been looking forward to this tv special, as I saw them filming the Canadian Mint coin launch for the Terry Fox $1 coin. Darrell Fox and I exchanged wonderful praises of what it was like working with Moyra.
Me with Darrell Fox at the Terry Fox coin launch - photo Deb Martin.
Checking the CBC website, I found their archive collection of Terry Fox news clips - pretty amazing - documenting his journey from before to after. Check it out!
I will be attending the Port Coquitlam Hometown Run this year. This is my 13th year of being a Terry's Team member, cancer survivors who serve as living examples that cancer research has made a difference. I have always spoken at Terry Fox Run sites each year throughout the Lower Mainland, sometimes 3 in one day - but I have never before attended the Hometown Run. Special guests include The Fox Family, Rick Hansen + Prime Minister Paul Martin. There will also be a Rod Stewart impersonator singing the song "Never Give Up On a Dream" which Rod wrote for Terry.
