I hope that everyone will be able to make it to our class meeting, even with its move to MONDAY MORNING this week. I am especially looking forward to this meeting because we will be joined by special guest and Dvision 3 alumnus, Roshen Jaswal, who was in grade 6 when he was last a student in our room. Roshen has kindly kept in touch over the years since and has agreed to join us to share some memories and a little of his story of what life has been like for him after surviving Division 3.
As you continue working on various activities (some new and some extending from last week), I also want to draw your attention to a couple of stories that I have come across in the news this week about two of the most notable and most inspiring individuals from our province who set out to bring attention to how we can overcome our own challenges and can help improve the lives of others when we join together.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope. You may have heard how Addidas, the company who helped sponsor Terry’s run 40 years ago by providing him with shoes (he needed a lot of shoes!) released a special, limited edition shoe last week modelled after the runners Terry wore with all proceeds going to the Terry Fox Foundation. The shoes sold out online in mere minutes. These photos tell the story well, check them out.
Rick Hanson is marking the 35th anniversary of his Man in Motion tour (when he travelled all the way around the world in his wheelchair to raise funds and awareness for accessibility and spinal cord injury research) by donating almost 2000 pieces of memorabilia from his tour to the Canadian History Museum. In his interview with CBC’s On the Coast, Rick talks about memories of the tour, his friendship with Terry Fox and their wheelchair basketball games together and how he carried a small statue of Terry with him on his tour to help him maintain his spirits and determination.
As we continue working through our current situation and conquering all our collective and individual obstacles, I hope we might be once again inspired by these individuals, and maybe not just because their challenges and their successes seem so great (which they were and are) but because their determination and ultimately their success came out of the desire to do good for others. We CAN get there faster if we all move together.
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I have watched all the terry videos i could find and i saw the movie again and it was more interesting then watching it at because we had to stop in between a lot so it was better to watch it with no stopping it was more interesting.
I also find that I get more out of a book or movie the second time around. I’m glad you did too.
Hi Mr Milloy! I had fun yesterday, celebrating my cousins 7th birthday at a zoom meeting with all her friends. I was surprised that the shoes sold out in minutes!
And I suppose virtual parties & meetings leave less to clean up afterward while also requiring no travel time! I am glad there was (and is) so much interest in the shoes as that should show a very high level of interest in Terry’s story and the efforts of the Terry Fox Foundation. (I was a little concerned that apparantly several pairs appeared on eBay moments later being offered at significantly higher prices than Addidas sold them for, but perhaps those resellers were going to donate the profits to the Terry Fox Foundation as well; I can at least hope that is so.)
there are inspiring so i can keep going and push myself to do different things
And I’d like you to notice and remember that when YOU keep going and keep up your efforts, you are also encouraging and inspiring others. So keep up the good work!
I watched the Terry Fox and Rick Hansen videos and I think they are both very interesting
I wonder how many elementary school students in BC know about Rick Hanson? Glad you looked into the videos.
Hello Mr Milloy I watched the Terry Fox movie again and it was more interesting and fun because I watched it continuously and I was not thinking about any games and I was focused on the movie .