The 2022 CIBC Run for the Cure was back in person for the first time in two years and a huge crowd hit the ground running in support of fighting breat cancer.
The run took place Sunday morning at Heritage Park along the Barrie lakeshore and had more than 600 participants making the trek across Centennial Beach along Lakeshore Drive.
Aly Moreau, who is co-director of the event and a volunteer with the local Canadian Cancer Society, said she got involved to help those living with breast cancer and hoping to find ways to sustain a good quality of life.
“I know there are people who wonder why we do these events because they say that cancer is still taking lives, they wonder how the money helps. It's going to technology to enhance lives,” Moreau told BarrieToday. “We have so much more treatment because of the money we have raised through events like Run for the Cure.
"The quality of life is way better than it was 10 years ago thanks in part to new technology," she added.
Moreau said the tally as of 9 a.m., Sunday, for money raised was $154,154, with more being collected throughout the day.
Hannah McEdwards was participating dressed like a dinosaur, as was the rest of her team.
McEdwards told BarrieToday she was not so much a survivor, but a “thriver” of cancer, having been diagnosed Feb. 16, 2012.
“I am a 'thriver'. I am still fighting cancer but I don’t let it slow me down,” McEdwards said. “I’m here with my family, we’re not friends anymore we are family, and raising money for Team Co-operators H.M. & Associates where I work here in town. These ladies have been there for me the second I was diagnosed. Our team is also made up of some of my employees and we’re all living the dream now.”
Money raised at the Run for the Cure helps thousands of people get to their breast cancer treatments, provides community and support through our peer support programs, provides more than 3,100 wigs, headwear, and breast prostheses and funds Canada’s best breast cancer research.
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