{"id":74830,"date":"2025-06-25T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74830"},"modified":"2025-06-25T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:00:57","slug":"darryl-fox-fellow-bicyclists-to-stop-in-wawa-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/darryl-fox-fellow-bicyclists-to-stop-in-wawa-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Darryl Fox & Fellow Bicyclists to stop in Wawa Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jun 25, 2025 at 08:00<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Terry Fox in Wawa (across from Star Motel, 5km north of Wawa, August 18th, 1980). Photo by B. Stockton.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

On June 9th, eight cyclists led by Terry\u2019s younger brother, Darrell Fox, departed from Vancouver to ride 7,000 km across Canada and expect to arrive in St. John\u2019s on July 10th, 2025. They said they are excited to ride to Wawa on Wednesday, June 25th, and spend the night.<\/p>\n

They are celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Terry\u2019s Marathon of Hope with a one-time, coast-to-coast cycling event, “The Terry Fox National Ride of Hope”. Their fundraising goal is $1 million to benefit vital cancer research via the Terry Fox Foundation and the Marathon of Hope Cancer Care Networks.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what or where Terry and Darrell ate on that evening in Wawa 45 years ago – but this year the Rotary Club of Wawa will be hosting a Spaghetti Dinner for the riders, who are expected to arrive around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

In one of those weird coincidences – 20 years ago this week (28th), I met Shawn Ashmore who played Terry at Old Woman Bay. I also met Noah Reid who portrayed Darrell.<\/p>\n

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Jun 25, 2025 at 08:00 On June 9th, eight cyclists led by Terry\u2019s younger brother, Darrell Fox, departed from Vancouver to ride 7,000 km across Canada and expect to arrive in St. John\u2019s on July 10th, 2025. They said they are excited to ride to Wawa on Wednesday, June 25th, and spend the night. They …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3322],"class_list":["post-74830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-terry-fox-movie"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 16:04:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74851,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74830\/revisions\/74851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}