2019 Terry Fox Award Presented to Elayna Greenwood
Prince Albert, Sk. – The 2019 Terry Fox Award was presented to Elayna Greenwood at the City of Prince Albert Council meeting this evening. The Terry Fox Award is presented annually to a young Prince Albert resident who emulates the traits and inspiration of Terry Fox.
Elayna Greenwood was born and raised in Prince Albert. Now, a vibrant 13 year-old, Elayna was diagnosed 7 years ago with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. At the time she was a Grade 1 student at Ecole Vickers School. However 2 and a half years of intense chemotherapy treatment would ravage her body and make it impossible to attend regular school. Elayna kept up with the “hospital school” and tutors. She didn’t understand everything that was happening to her, but didn’t complain and remained positive despite losing her hair, swelling, and feeling ravenously hungry, all side-effects of the chemotherapy. She completed treatment on February 19, 2015.
Since then Elayna Greenwood has made up for lost time! She is an avid Dancer at Preforming Arts Warehouse, where she is now a class assistant and has received Perfect Attendance Awards in the majority of her classes since 2015. She loves to ride horses, baby sit for her dance instructors, swim, runs cross-country and track & field in school and participates in the Summit Run. She is proud to take part in the Survivor Lap at Relay for Life annually and in 2019 her Relay team raised $2,200. Her athleticism, involvement and positive attitude are inspirational. She hopes to become a pediatrician or a pediatric oncologist someday so she can care for other children the way so many have cared for her.
The Terry Fox Award and Citation were established by the City of Prince Albert in 1981 to perpetuate the memory of Terry’s heroic achievement, while acknowledging a local recipient with similar ideals. Citizens are invited to nominate people for this award each year.
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For more information please contact:
Jody Boulet
Director of Community Services
Phone: (306) 953-4800