Walking to fight cancer

Widdifield Secondary School held their Terry Fox Walk with W.J. Fricker and E.T. Carmichael students.

They’re celebrating former Principal Lisa O’Kane’s husband’s remission and also walking to honour paramedic Jordan Gardiner, a former Wildcat, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.

One of the walk’s organizers Jocelyn Bell Summersby says Widdifield students heard about Jordan’s story from his wife Paige Shemilt-Trudeau before it started

“Paige did a wonderful job in having each student stand up and acknowledge whether they had cancer or a family member had cancer or a friend. I would say everybody in our school stood up,” she says.

O’Kane says they wanted to spread the word about having hope in beating cancer.

“They’ve heard from Jordan and me loud and clear that research, involvement and awareness is the key to the hope message. We can beat this awful, awful disease,” O’Kane says.

Along with the walk, activities include speeches at an assembly and a fundraising pie-in-the-face activity.

It was the final Terry Fox walk at Widdifield.

Students have been doing this for almost two decades.

(photos by station staff)