Sylvia Jacquard
In this, the third year that the village has hosted the local Terry Fox Run, the Booker School contributed a new event to the run — a community picnic, which raised more than $350. The 53 participants that took part in the village run that preceded the picnic raised more than $2,500.
Runners were welcomed to the community centre with a multi-coloured line full of Terry Fox t-shirts.
Gaye Coolen and the other members of the green team, wearing their official green volunteer t-shirts, got everyone registered. Also in attendance were two of Terry’s teammates (cancer survivors) Freeman Levy and Claudette MacKenzie.
The course had as many loops as runners, walkers and dogs wished to make around High Street, Belcher Street and Main Street.
Run Nova Scotia provided the music that kept everyone pumped up during the run and throughout the picnic. At the end, participants were thanked with water and snacks and a small prize for the children.
The Booker School picnic featured barbecued chicken, with the chicken donated and prepared by Ron Testroete of Synergy Agri.
The children present were well entertained by the variety of lawn games including an egg toss. Terry Fox Foundation Provincial Director Barbara Pate spent the morning in the village participating in the two events. Photos of the event can be seen in the village photo gallery on the Port Williams website.
Congratulations to Karla and Howard MacDonald and John Walsh (formerly of Kentville) on the arrival of their second grandchild, Nicholas James Darwin Walsh, born Aug. 4 at the Victoria General Hospital in Victoria, to proud parents Amanda MacDonald and Shawn Walsh, of Sooke, B.C. A precious baby brother for Alexander. Congrats to great-grandparents John and Mona Regan.