LOCAL HISTORY 1988 PARIS HOLDS ITS FIRST TERRY FOX MARATHON!

Left: September 19, 1988, Bob Neate pushes his twoyear-old daughter Lindsay in a homemade buggy at Sunday's first ever Terry Fox Run, Walk or Roll in Paris. Thirty participants in the Paris run raised $670 for cancer research. Four years later more than 100 runners, walkers & rollers, took to the streets in front of Paris District High School for two laps of a five-kilometre course. A documentary video of the Marathon of Hope played in the registration area which coorganizer Bob Neate hoped would add some perspective to the run "It's just a reminder” he said. “Hopefully it'll give some people some encouragement and it sets the tone for the day”. By his second year of helping run things, Mr Neate said numbers have doubled each year. He expected Paris would raise $4,000 to $4,500. Volunteers said donation sheets ranging from $1 to $451 were handed in Starting the race was Tanya Rabe, 15 of Drumbo, who lost her leg to cancer when she was seven. She said the run is a good idea and she hoped people would raise a lot of money for cancer research.