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<\/p>\nMore than a thousand motorcycle enthusiasts in Winnipeg hit the hot pavement this weekend to raise money for a good cause.<\/p>\n
About 1,500 motorcycles were set to rev up in unison at the Polo Park parking lot as the 18th annual Ride for Dad parade got started Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
The annual charity has raised more than $5.8 million for the fight against prostate cancer since 2009.<\/p>\n
“Once I get riding, I get excited because all the motorcycles will start,” said Deo Avila, who’s been taking part in the ride for about five years.<\/p>\n
“I’m happy that I am riding and supporting the prostate fundraising.”<\/p>\n
The Manitoba ride is part of events held across Canada in support of the Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation. Rides for Dad in more than 20 communities have raised $39 million for the charity since the first event was held in 2000.<\/p>\n
Organizers of the Manitoba event were aiming to match a record set last year, when the ride in Winnipeg raised $762,000.<\/p>\n
Ed Johner, a spokesperson for the Manitoba event, is a prostate and kidney cancer survivor. He said doctors were able to treat his cancer successfully because it was detected early, when he still presented no symptoms.<\/p>\n
Johner said not everyone is as lucky.<\/p>\n
“It’s estimated that 1.2 million Canadian men have prostate cancer. Eighty per cent don’t know it,” Johner said.<\/p>\n
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(Kevin Nepitabo\/CBC)<\/p>\n
Prostate cancer doesn’t just affect men, he said. “It affects wives, it affects daughters, it affects mothers.\u2026 I lost my dad to prostate cancer. So it’s critical that we get this message out.”<\/p>\n
Bill Brokke said he knows a lot of people who’ve fought cancer, so participating in the ride has a personal significance.<\/p>\n
The ride “gets people involved” and raises awareness about getting checked early, Brokke said.<\/p>\n
“There’s camaraderie” at the event, he said. “There’s nobody on a motorcycle that won’t stop and help somebody. Anybody on the road, we’ll stop and help them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a thousand motorcycle enthusiasts in Winnipeg hit the hot pavement this weekend to raise money for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,60908,54687,22073],"class_list":["post-704923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kidney-cancer","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}