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recalled. “Everybody had a lot of fun there.” The 2012 Tour de Rock team’s In less than one week, the 18 rid- 1,000-kilometre journey to raise ers representing this year’s Cops funds for pediatric cancer research for Cancer Tour de Rock will arrive officially hit the road Sept. 23, after in Ladysmith. a send-off celebration in Port Alice They will be tired, and they will the night before. By the time they be hungry and in need of some reach Ladysmith on Mon., Oct. 1, good old-fashioned they will have travLadysmith hospitality. Quoted in the Chronicle elled more than 680 No one knows that kilometres, visiting feeling better than “You’re getting places like Courtenay, Black Press reporter Parksville, Port Alberni Chris Bush, who par- very tired, but it and Ucluelet. ticipated in the 2011 really perks you “When you get into Tour. up when you get Campbell River and “You’ve been on the Courtenay and some r o a d m o r e t h a n a a huge welcome of the more major cenweek, so by that point, when you come tres, you’re doing a lot you’re starting to get of bouncing around,” into a town.” Bush fairly emotionally and said. physically drained,” he A Red Serge Dinner Chris Bush, said. “You’re getting is being held Monday past Tour de Rock rider very tired, but it really night at the Eagles Hall perks you up when to honour the riders you get a huge weland provide the comcome when you come into a town.” munity with a chance to meet the The North Oyster resident said riders. he was overwhelmed by last year’s Among the list of speakers will support, although Ladysmith has be Ladysmith’s Tammy Dougan, traditionally been a big supporter whose son Callum was diagnosed of Tour de Rock. with advanced stage four neuro“It was probably the biggest [turn- blastoma at the age of four and a out] of all the small towns,” he See Dinner Page 3
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Three-and-a-half-year-old Austin Wiberg races a veggie car during the Ladysmith Community Gardens Society’s Harvest Event and Ladysmith Family and Friends Outdoor Event, held simultaneously on Sept. 21.
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