The Terry Fox Foundation wants the city of Port Coquitlam to pitch in up to $2,500 for this year's Terry Fox Training Run.
This week, the city's healthy community committee approved a request from the Terry Fox Foundation for funding to manage the traffic during the second annual run, which will take place April 3.
The Terry Fox Training Run follow's the route Terry took through the Tri-Cities in preparation for his historic Marathon of Hope in 1980.
Last year's inaugural 10-mile Training Run — which starts at Westwood elementary school in PoCo — drew 275 runners and 175 walkers; it also collected $11,300 for cancer research.
City council will consider the foundation's funding request at its meeting next week.
To register for the Training Run, visit terryfox.org.
Other PoCo news:
AFTER-GRAD
Hyde Creek recreation centre will be the site of all-night party for Riverside secondary graduates in June.
On Tuesday, the city's healthy community committee waived the $375 rental fee for the civic venue for the after-grad event, which will run the evening of June 11 to the morning of June 12.
It will be the 19th year the high school has held its after-grad at the PoCo facility.
FEST REPORTS
An annual fall festival to honour Port Coquitlam's natural environment was a costly celebration.
According to city documents, the 2015 Rivers and Trails fest organizers spent almost $20,000 for entertainment, rentals, supplies, honorariums and city labour; however, the event brought in less than $9,000 from donations and paddle wheeler tickets.
Meanwhile, the Hyde Creek Salmon Festival — an annual fall event put on by the Hyde Creek Watershed Society and the city — saw a net profit of $535.
FRESH FARE
There were fewer visitors to last summer's Port Coquitlam Farmers Market but shoppers were shelling out more cash.
A report from the Haney Farmers Market, which oversees the PoCo fair, reported total sales up 34.4% from 2014, for its seventh year.
The market in Leigh Square Community Arts Village runs from June to September on Thursday afternoons.
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