I have lost five close family members to cancer, not breast cancer, but nonetheless this had inspired me to participate in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure this year in Oshawa. I lost my mother, my brother, my wife’s uncle, my mother-in-law and father-in-law all to cancer.
My son has a very good friend who is a breast cancer survivor and he asked if I’d like to join their group this year. I did and was amazed at the crowd that turned out in Oshawa to participate for this wonderful cause and it gave me such a “warm” feeling to be doing my part along with some of my family members. We were walking with the “Miehm’s Team Army of Angels” and won for the most money collected and the largest group walking. My son, his wife and their little poodle all walked with me.
My wife decorated a pink shirt with the names of our five family members and I wore this very proudly. I am enclosing a picture of my son Todd, his puppy Rusty and myself taken on the walk. I will definitely continue this tradition as long as possible.
Ralph Bowers
Tyrone ON
Hello, my name is Breanna and our team “Team Finch” ran for women across the world. We support EVERYONE who’s going through or has gone through this horrible situation. There is a cure and we will run until the day it happens! We support you! Aldergrove’s Finch family wore our pink with the message “In Mom we Trust” for our mom, a breast cancer survivor in Abbotsford.
Breanna
Surrey, BC
My name is Chloe Corrado and I am 14 years old. Five months ago, my mother passed away from stage four breast cancer. She had been battling it for five years and had suffered a great deal. Last year, in 2007, I participated in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure for the first time with a small team of only 15 people. This year, I decided to do the Run again, but this time, it would be much bigger, in memory of my mother, a woman who was very extravagant and she was always heard. And so, a few moths before the Run, I started fundraising and recruiting teammates. I never thought that Team Mylene would turn out so big. On Run day, we counted 140 Team Mylene members, ranging from ages 5 to 60 and we had raised a great amount of money. Even though I do not have the exact amount, we do know that we raised over $10,000 and I raised something like $4,000.
I am very proud of all the Team Mylene team members who participated and helped us. I especially want to thank my cousin and my father, who were a great help through a very stressful organization and I also want to thank the 40 or 50 students from my school who walked and all the teachers who helped make it possible.
Thank you Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation for supporting such a great cause.
Chloe Corrado of Team Mylene
I recently went on my 3rd Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run for the Cure, and did the 5K route. I remember the first time I went, I was 10 years old, and I thought I was just going on a usual run, just with a lot of people, but right as the gun fired, I realized that I was doing this to help people. I realized that thousands of others were also doing the same thing as me. When they could be doing something else on there weekend, they decided they were going to help fight breast cancer for others who have a hard time doing it. I don’t know anyone who has had breast cancer. But I do know how much you can miss some one when they pass away. Recently my grandpa died. It happened so fast, and I felt as if the whole world was spinning. I didn’t know what to think or do. I remember that I just kept thinking to myself, “there must have been some other way to help” over and over again in my head. I realize now, that people who have breast cancer do get that chance to live, and to get better. Thanks to everyone who walked or ran, and to everyone else who supported and took there time out of the day to help make a difference. I am now 13 and will now go to the Run every year and will continue to do if until they do find a cure. I sometimes get really tired and want to stop, but I know I am making a difference, and I don’t stop, I keep going, all the way to the end. Where there will be a cure.
oxox,
Paige Howard
P.S. This is dedicated to all the people to have ever had breast cancer, or who ever has lost a family or friend due to breast cancer. It will be okay. They will find a cure, no matter how down, or how sad you feel inside don’t give up hope.
