THE WEDNESDAY
CANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARD 2012
TRI-CITY NEWS Two wheels to work
Jets & Sharks on stage
SEE LIFE, PAGE A13
SEE ARTS, PAGE A19
MAY 23, 2012 www.tricitynews.com
INSIDE Tom Fletcher/A10 Letters/A11 A Good Read/A17 Sports/A22
JANIS WARREN/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
At the finish line on Friday’s Thermal Drive climb, surrounded by hundreds of cheering Tri-City residents, the Man in Motion, Rick Hansen watched as 18-year-old Tyrone Henry, a paraplegic and endurance athlete from Ottawa, broke through the finish line at Seymour Drive. Hansen lauded Henry, saying he is an example of someone who instead of giving up, chose to get involved.
Hill of a day for Hansen Man in Motion again made climb, backed by the ‘Many in Motion’ By Diane Strandberg THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Thermal Drive did not vanquish Rick Hansen nor any of his 25th anniversary relay team, who last Friday made their way up the winding hill like it was a Sunday stroll to a prairie church. But instead of sing-
ing hymns at the conclusion of the now almost mythic trek from Port Moody to Coquitlam, the gracious Hansen praised his “difference makers,” people who joined him in the mission to create a “healthy and inclusive world.” The jour ney from Cape Spear to Vancouver
over 12,000 km made by 7,000 medal bearers is one of determination and accomplishment, said Hansen, and a tribute to the original Man in Motion tour to raise awareness of spinal cord research a quarter century ago. see ‘IT’S IT S NOT JUST JUST’,, page A5
MORE INSIDE FROM FRIDAY • Photos from Thermal Drive ascent and the medal relay: page A3 • Meet medal bearers from the Tri-Cities: page A6
It’s cool ‘to be part of something that’s so much bigger than you’ By Larry Pruner THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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turn 50 years old in a few months. Last Friday, my legs turned 100. Yet it was unfathomable for me to wallow in self pity as I repeatedly glanced to my left while plodding up
Port Moody’s sailor fighting insanely steep, gale-force winds; 1.9-km Thermal and his steely, competitive eyes Drive to watch him, his hands focused tightly gripping and on the top of arms thrusting this hellacious in Herculean hill, whose end PRUNER fashion the two seemed like it wheels on his chair; his might never come. head craning forward see ‘WE ALL’,, page A4 with a grimace like a