Gilmore’s annual Terry Fox Run will be happening on Thursday, September 24th from 1-3pm. The run will be held rain or shine so please ensure that your child is prepared and dressed for the weather. We encourage all students to wear their GRIZZLY GEAR on this day and to donate online @ https://schools.terryfox.ca/GilmoreCommunityElementary in an amount of “2”.  Just think…. TOONIES FOR TERRY!! Other examples of donations could be: 2.00, $2.20, $20.00 or even $200.  With your HELP – we would love to be able to surpass our last years total of $1849.22 and reach our NEW fundraising goal of $2,000.  Please note that ALL donations in any amount are gratefully appreciated!!!

If Gilmore Community School raises $2000 towards the Terry Fox Run, the entire school will get a BUBBLE GUM DAY!!! Date TBA once the challenge is reached!!!

A little bit about Terry………

Terry Fox was born on July 28, 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada’s west coast.  Growing up, Terry was an active teenager involved in many sports. In 1977, at 18 years of age, while attending Simon Fraser University as a first year Kinesiology student and member of the junior varsity basketball team, Terry was unfortunately diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimeters above his knee.

While in the hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He would call his journey “The Marathon of Hope”.  After 18 months of running over 5,000 kilometers on his prosthetic leg to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare.

Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran close to a marathon a day (42 km) through Canada’s Atlantic Provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers, Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because the cancer had returned – this time to his lungs.

An entire nation was stunned and saddened when Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age of 22.
The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning. His courage, determination, humanitarianism and selflessness have been an inspiration to millions of people.   To date, over $850 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry’s name through the annual Terry Fox Run, which is held across Canada and around the world every year.

Here are the common school supplies lists for the 2026-2027 school year:

• Grade 1
• Grade 2-3
• Grade 4-5
• Grade 6
• Grade 7

These common lists are only a portion of what your child will need for school supplies for the year: your child’s teacher will provide a complete list specific to their class in the second week of September. You can order the common supplies from School Start here.