{"id":812589,"date":"2026-07-19T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:58:09","slug":"terry-fox-fraser-valley-ride-of-hope-beats-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812589\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Fox Fraser Valley Ride of Hope beats target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Terry Fox Fraser Valley Ride of Hope beats target<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 9:00 am Sunday, July 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>By the time riders in the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/terryfox.org\/terry-fox-ride-of-hope\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fraser Valley Terry Fox Ride of Hope<\/a> reached Langley, they were well past their $50,000 fundraising target.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday afternoon, as police were escorting the riders along 255 St. near 12 Ave. the cyclists had raised close to $89,000 and donations were still coming in.<\/p>\n<p>It began and ended at Vedder Park in Chilliwack (UFV Chilliwack Campus), winding through the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n<p>More than $10,000 of that was raised by Terry\u2019s younger brother Darrell Fox of Chilliwack, who launched the event in 2015 to mark the 35th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Darrell and a team of seven other riders did a cross-Canada ride where they pedalled 7,000 kilometres in 32 non-stop days in the National Ride of Hope.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the \u2018Terry Tough\u2019 team planned to ride 360 kilometres in one day to \u201cpush their limits physically and mentally to further Terry\u2019s dream of eradicating cancer through research,\u201d an online event summary said.<\/p>\n<p>There are 16 Ride of Hope events across Canada.<\/p>\n<p> Over the past decade, the Terry Fox Ride of Hope has brought in $2,250,000 for cancer research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Fox Fraser Valley Ride of Hope beats target Published 9:00 am Sunday, July 19, 2026 By the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-812589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812589","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=812589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}