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From left, Ace Burpee, co-chair of the annual Terry Fox Run in Winnipeg, Health Minister Sharon Blady, James Follette, co-chair of the annual Terry Fox Run in Winnipeg, Jana Pringle, chairperson for Selkirk's Terry Fox Run and Roy Bolin,84, cancer survivor and one of the original organizers in Manitoba for Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope in 1980 at the event in the Manitoba legislative Bld. Friday to invite Manitobans to celebrate the first official Terry Fox Day on Monday Aug.3. There will be a display from the Canadian Mint of the coin they minted ten years ago and a enlargement of the letter Terry wrote on Oct.15, 1979 to the Canadian Cancer Society with his proposal to run across Canada in the Legislative Bld. until the annual Terry Fox Run to be held on Sept. 20. pls. see news release Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg Free Press July 31 2015