Al9 - Sunday, May 6, 1984 - North Shore News

STEVEN FONYO

VERNON’S STEVE Fonyo,
attempting to retrace Terry
Fox’s run across Canada —
and finish the one-legged
runner’s Marathon of Hope
— ts beginning to capture
the imagination of the
country.

While it is doubtful that
Fonyo, who has also lost a
leg to cancer victim, will
have the impact Fox did on
his abortive attempt to run

across the country, his slow
progress across New-
foundiand has started the

fund-raising ball rolling
again.
As Fonyo nears Port-

aux-Basques this week he is
making slower progress than
did Fox but he has raised
almost twice as much money
for cancer research as his
hero did in 1980.

Fonyo, whose progress

has been delayed by recurr-
ing bad weather -across
Canada’s confederation
province, has so far
managed to raise $40,000 for
cancer research.
Newfoundland’s bad
weather, and the response of
its people to what Fonyo is
attempting, have so far held
him to an average of 19
kilometres a day, welt below
the target of 32 kilometres

Funds rolling in for
one-legged runner

he had set before the run.

Fox averaged 35
kilometres a day on his
heroic run in 1980 that was
stopped short in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, by a recur-
rance of the cancer that
would claim his life within
months. |

Fonyo hopes to end his
run at Vancouver’s B.C.
Place in September or
October.

‘Don't panic’
says Lalonde

FINANCE MINISTER
Marc Lalonde warned Ca-
nadians not to panic as the
Bank of Canada announced
a one-third of a percentage
point increase in the central
lending rate Thursday.

The boost in interest rates,

expected to help slow the
decline of the Canadian
dollar, takes the central

bank’s rate from 10.84 per
cent to 11.13 per cent.

ft is likely interest rates
climb higher because of
pressure on the Canadioan
dollar because of the dif-

ference between Canadian
and American figures.

So far, the Canadian
prime lending rate ‘is slightly
below that of the U.S., a
reversal of the usual roles.
The Canadian rate normally
has to be higher than the
U.S. rate to attract foreign
capital.

The increase in the Bank
of Canada rate appears to
have had some impact — the
Canadian dollar rose to
77.67 cents U.S. Thursday
from 77.31 cents the day
before.

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