2011 tour de rock program

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2011 Tour de Rock Program

TOUR DE ROCK | SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 7, 2011

Cops for CanCer

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Community Visits Table of Contents

Key Events

START • Saturday, Sept 24 — Travel by vehicle to Port Alice

97 km • Sunday, Sept 25 — Port Alice to Port Hardy to Port McNeill

140 km • Monday, Sept 26 — Port McNeill to Sayward

74 km • Tuesday, Sept 27 — Sayward to Campbell River

60 km • Wednesday, Sept 28 — Campbell River to Comox Valley

81 km • Thursday, Sept 29 — Comox Valley to Qualicum/Parksville

51 km • Friday, Sept 30 — Parksville to Port Alberni

102 km • Saturday, Oct 1 — Port Alberni to Ucluelet

35 km • Sunday, Oct 2 — Tofino to Nanaimo

48 km • Monday, Oct 3 — Nanaimo to Ladysmith to Chemainus

81 km • Tuesday, Oct 4 — Chemainus to Lake Cowichan to Duncan

78 km • Wednesday, Oct 5 — Duncan to Shawnigan Lake to Mill Bay to Sooke to Westshore

40 km • Thursday, Oct 6 — Oak Bay/Victoria to Sidney

40 km • Friday, Oct 7 — Esquimalt to Saanich to Victoria

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Community visits & key events �� 2

Table of contents and tour map �� 3

Message from the Chair �� 4

Camp Goodtimes �� 5

Support from schools �� 6

Meet the 2011 Tour de Rock team �� 7

2011 Tour de Rock rider bios �� 8 – 18

Support crew �� 19

2011 Tour de Rock Junior Team �� 20 – 21

History of Tour de Rock �� 22

Sponsors and additional credits �� 23

How to donate and contact information �� 24

2011 Tour de Rock • Mix and Mingle

Friday, September 16, 6 – 9pmHosted by Harbour Towers Hotel, VictoriaComplimentary hors d’oeuvres (cash bar)Silent and Live AuctionsTour de Rock Team, Junior Team and Support CrewJersey Presentation & Team Introduction

2011 Tour de Rock • Finale

Friday, October 7, 5 – 7pmSpirit Square in VictoriaCome and congratulate the riders on their journeyEnjoy family fun, headshaves, food, entertainment and sponsor presentations

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There are four Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tours in BC:TOUR DE ROCk Sept 24 – October 7

TOUR DE COAST September 21 – 29

TOUR DE VALLEY September 22 – 30

TOUR DE NORTH September 9 – 15

Tour de Rock 2011 ROUTE MaPThe Canadian Cancer Society thanks

Coast Capital Savings for their generosity, passion and commitment to helping

children with cancer and their families.

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Message from the Chair of the Tour de Rock Steering Committee

Camp Goodtimes: a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow

knowing that any of us could be struck by cancer at any time is frightening. That it should happen to an innocent child is unjust in the extreme.

That’s why the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock exists.

The good news, as we enter the 14th year of this crusade, is that it’s working. Childhood cancer survival rates are on the rise, and treatments are less invasive and have fewer side effects. And there is a direct link between these advances and the efforts of the people of Vancouver Island, who since 1998 have embraced this cause as their own.

There might only be 22 riders, but it takes all of us to make the fourteenth annual Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock happen. The two-week journey of hope will roll through 27 communities before it’s done, pushed along by the entire population of Vancouver Island.

The Tour de Rock comprises 19 Vancouver Island police officers and three riders from the media. The selection process began in early February. Successful applicants began training in early March — one group of cops meeting in Greater Victoria, and another following a nomadic schedule around the north Island.

Training started with one practice a week, increasing to three times a week by mid-April — hills on Tuesday nights, speed work on Thursdays, long rides on Sundays. The rides become more frequent and more difficult in the lead-up to the Tour’s Sept. 24 departure.

In all, the team will have ridden well over 3,000 kilometres in training to prepare for the 1,000-kilometre twisting, climbing ride from the north end of Vancouver Island to the south.

What is harder to prepare for is the emotional side of the journey. The cyclists are paired with Junior Team Members — children with a history of cancer. Some of these children have concluded their treatments, but others have not and are continuing to deal with the often debilitating effects of cancer treatment even while participating in Tour events. The stories of these children and their families are at the same time troubling and inspiring for the riders.

The riders are also expected to devote themselves to fund-raising activities and promotional events that, when combined with their training, make the

Tour de Rock a second full-time job — albeit one without pay. The sacrifices demanded of the riders and their families over the seven months of their Tour experience cannot be stressed strongly enough.

But it’s all worth it. The team’s commitment and enthusiasm is driven by two major motivating factors: the opportunity to directly fight childhood cancer and the willingness of the people of Vancouver Island to themselves embrace the cause, raising the funds that have such tangible effect.

We all have our own reasons for joining the fight. I was involved in the Tour de Rock from the beginning — shaving my head, supporting my Oak Bay Police colleagues when they rode — but found a personal reason to ride when my partner was diagnosed with breast cancer. Taking part in the 2005 ride changed my life.

I was asked to join the Tour de Rock Steering Committee shortly thereafter. It has been my honour to serve as the Chair of that committee for the past four years.

On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank you for once again choosing to make a difference in the lives of children with cancer and their families. You are making a difference, one of which all of Vancouver Island can be proud.

Sincerely,

Ron Gaudet, Chair, Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock

It feels as though we have watched Carmin Blomberg grow up.

The Victoria girl is 16 now, but has been on the Tour de Rock junior team since age five. That’s how old she was the first time she went to Camp Goodtimes, too.

“I remember being nervous and scared,” she says of that first day at camp. “I wouldn’t let go of my mom’s leg. It was like the first day at school.”

She had been through a lot by then, was only 1½ years old when her leukemia was diagnosed in November 1996. She experienced things no child should endure: two bone marrow biopsies, chemotherapy, blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, lumbar punctures, CAT scans, feeding tube insertions, two trips to the ICU, three major surgeries… by the time she came out the other side, she was still only four years old.

As it turns out, Camp Goodtimes was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, a warm, welcoming oasis where children like Carmin could just be kids.

That’s the reason the Canadian Cancer Society camp exists — and its existence is due, in large part, to money raised through the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock.

Situated on Loon Lake near Maple Ridge, Camp Goodtimes looks like any other kids’ summer camp: cabins clustered on forest-ringed water, with dirt-caked kids trying to jam 25 hours of fun into every 24-hour day. Swimming. Canoeing. Crafts. Games. Songs around the fire at night.

This camp is unique, though. Cancer separates children from their peers, sets them apart at a time of life when they just want to be like everyone else. Camp Goodtimes gives children with a history of cancer (and their siblings) a chance to fit in, no labels attached.

That’s what Carmin found in those early years — kids just like her who understand what she was going through. Sometimes they would talk about dealing

with the bullies at school who picked on those who were different. Sometimes they just acted goofy. “It’s so fun,” she says of her 12 years at camp.

Camp Goodtimes had its beginnings in 1985, when 25 children attended a one-week camp on the Sunshine Coast, led by the founder Lois Youngson. It moved around a lot before eventually settling in its current site at the UBC Research Centre; a longterm agreement between the Canadian Cancer Society and the University was signed in 2003.

Today, about 600 people attend the camp each July and August, without charge. There are four one-week camps for kids aged six to 15, as well as a program for teens aged 16 to 18 and a couple of four-day sessions for families. Medical staff are on site. Check it out at campgoodtimes�org�

As for Carmin, she was looking forward to this year’s teen camp before entering Grade 11 at Saanich’s Spectrum high school in September. She hopes to become a camp leader, too. She has already taken a leadership role in fighting childhood cancer, raising funds and making a video shown at stops during the Tour de Rock, ensuring that kids who follow in her footsteps have a summer oasis, too.

Ron Gaudet


Kids helping kidsWhen the Cops for Cancer wheeled into the packed gymnasium at Saanich’s Reynolds Secondary School near the end of their ride last fall, they found an amazing sight: an honour guard of 100 students who had shaved their heads to raise money for the cause.

“To come to Reynolds, to walk into the school and see that, was highly emotional,” says Const. Marty Steen, a Victoria police officer who was on the 2010 team. “It was electrifying in the gym that day.”

The roar became deafening when the students learned how much money they had raised, an astounding $51,776, a huge jump on the already-impressive $37,000 raised the year before.

It happened just after the riders were treated to a similar scene across town at Oak Bay High when the student leadership team presented a cheque for $43,000.

Two schools, with a combined student population of 2,200 raised a total of $95,000 to save, and improve, the lives of children with cancer. If everyone on Vancouver Island showed such generosity, the Tour de Rock would raise $32 million a year.

The students’ enthusiasm was inspiring. “I describe it as the cherry on the top of the Tour,” Steen says.

What’s most impressive is this is all about kids helping kids, the students themselves driving the efforts. At Oak Bay, the Tour de Rock campaign was co-chaired by Grade 12 students Carli Swift and Emily Coide,

backed by more than 100 fellow student volunteers. “We fundraised for 11 events in three weeks,” says Carli. A bottle drive, a dodgeball tourney, home room competitions, a five-hour relay...”

Both girls visited Camp Goodtimes and were inspired by the energy there. “You wouldn’t know it was a camp for kids with cancer,” said Emily. Carli concurred: “Every single kid there was smiling.”

They hoped Oak Bay would raise enough to send 12 children to camp. In the end, they made enough to send 28.

As for Carli and Emily, their contributions continued after graduation this year; they volunteer regularly with the Canadian Cancer Society.

Reynolds and Oak Bay weren’t the only two schools contributing, of course. The story was repeated up and down Vancouver Island, in schools big and small. Courtenay’s Valley View Elementary came up with some innovative fundraisers: students taped a teacher to a wall, and some of the male teachers had to wear dresses for a day. At tiny Woss, where you can count the number of students on your fingers, a little girl sacrificed her pony tail.

All contributions were appreciated; in this battle, every toonie counts�

The most exciting thing was to see young people taking it upon themselves to lead the fight against childhood cancer.

Back (left to right): Jarrod Christison, Steve Trevor, Alvin Deo, Chris Bush, Scott Green, Andy Harward, Steve Robinson, Tom Gill, Bill Peppy, Aaron Murray, Rod Fraser, Shawn Hall.

Front (left to right): James Matsuda, Rochelle Carr, Manon Chouinard, Sandra Holman, Stephanie McFarlane, Louise Hartland, Brittany king, Sandi Swanson, Mary Brigham, Mike Massine.

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Meet the 2011 Tour de Rock Team

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Canadian Cancer Society BC and Yukon Division

Each week during the seven months of training that lead up to the Tour de Rock, team members take turns wearing a gaudy garment known as the Jersey of Shame. It’s all in good fun, each rider adorning the cycling shirt with something new — a cape, say, or bunny ears — before passing it on to the next.

After Cpl. Manon Chouinard’s turn, a small toy frog had been added

— a joke laughingly sewn on by a good friend with little to laugh about. The woman, a neighbour, had just been diagnosed with lung cancer.

It was after hearing that news, Manon says, that the Tour de Rock became personal.

Chouinard, 49, serves with the RCMP in Victoria. Raised in the Gaspé region of Quebec, she joined the force in 1985. “I couldn’t speak a word of English.” Since then, her career has taken her from Chilliwack to Haiti. It was while posted to Sayward from 1999 to 2002 that she began fundraising for the Cops for Cancer. “It was always in the back of my mind: One day I will be a rider,” she says. The

opportunity arose this year, back on Vancouver Island after 4½ years working on the 2010 Olympics.

To her, the Tour de Rock is an extension of being a police officer, about having the power to aid those who need it — such as the families of children with cancer.

“I find it really hard to take when you look at the parents and they’re totally helpless,” she says. “That’s all the motivation I need to pedal and pedal and pedal.”

Manon Chouinard can be reached at [email protected] or by calling 250 380-6219.

Cpl. Manon Chouinard

Const. Rochelle Carr wasn’t sure about small-town life when the RCMP shipped her to Vancouver Island for her first posting.

Having grown up on in Aldergrove, on the edge of the Lower Mainland, she thought she would prefer a bigger centre.

But Tofino, where she served from 2007 to 2010, soon grew on

her. Once she got used to being recognized in the grocery store (and once she discovered surfing) the advantages became apparent. “You really get to know who’s who.”

Small, tight communities are also eager to support causes like the Tour de Rock. “When there’s something going on, everybody wants to participate.”

Parksville, where Carr moved last year, might be bigger than Tofino, but it’s still not Vancouver. “I still to this day, four years later, can’t get over the lack of traffic on the Island,” she says. Congestion is relative when you come from the Big Smoke.

If Island life was a change for Carr, so was learning to ride clipped in to a road bike for the Tour de Rock. “The first few rides, I felt totally off balance,” the 26-year-old says. “I didn’t want to turn and talk to anyone.” Now the riders don’t think twice when bumping shoulders at speed.

As a former lifeguard and someone who worked at a pre-school while in university, she says she’s eager to contribute to a cause that benefits kids.

Rochelle Carr can be reached at [email protected] or 250 248-6111.

Const. Rochelle Carr

At 53, Chris Bush figures he’s the old, aching guy of this year’s team. “The running joke is that if I have a heart attack only the women have to draw straws to give me mouth-to-mouth.”

But even if the hills are a struggle, he has stubbornly hung in there, earning the nickname The Mule. Ok, it’s a nickname he gave himself, but still he’s on a team

and has a nickname, which is pretty cool for a self-described non-joiner.

As a journalist with the Nanaimo News Bulletin, Bush is more used to watching from the outside than being on the inside. But as one of the three media riders on this year’s team — the others are Louise Hartland and Brittany king — he has been surprised at how tightly the tough training rides have drawn teammates together. “You really get to like these people. There are no egos, no A-type personality traits. We don’t even talk about work much.”

Born in Los Angeles, Bush grew up mostly in B.C., but returned to the

U.S. to join the military. He used his training as an electronics tech to earn a living after getting out in 1981, then turned to journalism in the mid-1990s. He has been a photographer and reporter with the News Bulletin since 1998.

He’s quick to point out that the riders couldn’t do what they do without the support of family members like his wife, Laurie Hawthornthwaite, who has been left to mow the lawn all summer. “It tells you a lot about your relationship with somebody.”

Chris Bush can be reached at [email protected] or 250 734-4625.

Chris Bush

Cpl. Mary Brigham was just a little girl in Blyth, Ont., when her aunt got sick with cancer. “I remember she would wear a bandana to cover her lack of hair.”

It’s that memory that spurred Brigham to decide to shave her head during this year’s Tour de Rock.

“It goes back to my aunt when she had no hair… I can always grow back more.”

Brigham, who joined the Canadian Forces in 2008 after going to college in kitchener, has been part of Military Police Unit Esquimalt since 2009. “I’m very lucky to be posted here,” says the 29-year-old, who likes to explore the area with her two dogs, Sham and Joey.

Brigham had hoped to try out for the 2010 team, but that possibility disappeared when she was shifted to the Lower Mainland for the Olympics, living out of a trailer in “Camp Jericho” for three months.

The wait was worth it. “Our team is awesome.” The effort hasn’t been easy, though. “I knew that it was a lot of commitment, physically and

mentally,” Brigham says. But until a person is actually in the middle of it, there’s no way to convey how all-consuming the Cops for Cancer experience can be.

“I’m pulling a lot more from myself than I thought I would.”

Mary Brigham can be reached at [email protected] or by calling 250 363-4032.

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Const. Rod Fraser is no stranger to cancer. His dad died of lung cancer when he was 17. He has a brother who is battling lung cancer right now. In June of this year, his sister was also diagnosed with the disease.

But it was the plight of a teenager, someone to whom he is not related, that gave the 44-year-old Mountie the inspiration he needed

to get him on the bike for the Tour de Rock. This winter, 14-year-old Lucas Savage of Colwood, one of the curlers Rod coaches at the Juan de Fuca Junior Curling Club, was diagnosed with cancer. Just seeing the difficulties Lucas and his family are going through made Rod realize he had to do something.

“The disease is hard on any family, but seems particularly cruel when it strikes a young person� Just seeing the kids sick like this, it’s heart-wrenching,” says Rod.

Rod was born and raised on Cape Breton Island, but moved to Prince Rupert, where his two sisters lived, in 1988. He worked for the Coast

Guard there for 19 years before taking the leap and becoming a member of the RCMP at age 40. Four years ago, Rod, wife Donna and one of their three children all pulled up stakes and moved to Victoria when he was posted to the West Shore detachment, where he continues to serve today.

Rod Fraser can be reached at [email protected] or 250 474-2264.

For Const. Alvin Deo, the cause that drives Cops for Cancer went from being theoretical to all too real not long after this year’s team began training.

“We knew something was wrong on Easter weekend,” the Victoria Police officer says. Two weeks later it was confirmed that his father-in-law, who lives in Comox, had lung cancer. It has been sobering for the family, but has also given

Deo’s efforts more meaning.

The diagnosis showed, once again, how random cancer can be, suddenly and indiscriminately hurting people whether they be adults or the children supported through the Tour de Rock.

“I have kids of my own, and the thought of them having cancer is terrifying,” says Deo, 34, whose children are aged four, eight and nine.

Deo, whose wry accounts of training rides make for entertaining on-line reading, is happy about the evolution of the team. “The surprising thing is how fast we have progressed from when we started.” That first 18-kilometre

wobble in March has given way to trips of 100 kilometres or more.

Still, the strength shown by young cancer survivors puts the riders’ efforts into perspective� “Compared to what they go through, what we have to go through pales.”

Born in New Westminster, Deo grew up in Vancouver. He earned a degree at Simon Fraser University before spending five years with the Canada Border Services Agency, first in the Lower Mainland, then in Victoria after moving there in 1999. He joined the Victoria Police in 2005.

Alvin Deo can be reached at [email protected] or 250 995-7516.

Jarrod Christison is a rarity: A Victoria farm boy.

Born in Victoria General Hospital, he grew up on the Scarborough Road poultry operation his family has owned since 1946.

“I was the only farmer all the way through school,” says the 26-year-old graduate of Saanich’s Claremont Secondary. “When other

kids were playing video games, I was shovelling manure and gathering eggs.”

It was while at Claremont and, earlier, Royal Oak Middle School, that he would see the Cops for Cancer ride through each fall. “I always looked up to the Tour de Rock guys and all the work they put in,” says Christison. Those riders gave him a model to follow. “I felt like I wanted to do something other than stand on the sidelines.”

Christison, a reserve officer with the Oak Bay Police Department since 2009, lost a grandfather to cancer and has had friends

succumb to leukemia. “It’s a sad thing to watch.” It’s even sadder when the victims are children; he saw plenty of sick kids during four years as a lifeguard at Saanich’s Commonwealth pool.

“I just felt that someone has to step up to make a difference,” he said. “I’m honoured to be one of the people who has the opportunity to actually do that.”

Jarrod Christison can be reached at [email protected] or by calling 250 882-1985.

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Jarrod Christison

Const. Tom Gill is proud of his new career, his new community and his new young friend Brett Wasylyniuk.

“Port Alberni,” he says, “feels like you’re sitting in downtown Armstrong.”

That’s a compliment. Born and raised in that B.C. Interior community, Gill, 44, spent 21 years in the forest industry there before joining the RCMP in 2008.

Posted to Port Alberni that year, Gill, his wife and their two children found an Island city with the values of a Prairie town, as shown by the Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay For Life this year. “They raised $160,000 in a community where jobs are tight.”

It was around that time that he met Wasylyniuk, the little Port Alberni boy who is part of this year’s Tour de Rock Junior Team. Gill let him pretend to drive and work the radio of a parked police car, flipped on the lights and sirens. “It lit him up.” A couple of days later, Brett headed off to Vancouver for another round of treatment.

Gill keeps that in mind when donors thank him for riding.

“I say ‘the kids thank you.’”

Asked why he joined the Cops for Cancer, he said it’s part of being a Mountie. “This is stuff we’re supposed to be doing. We have the ability to make a difference. We should be the leaders in any community we’re in.”

Tom Gill can be reached at [email protected] or 250 724-8912.

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CTV’s Louise Hartland thought that once the 2010 Olympics were done, her television career would take her from the Big City to the Bigger City, from Vancouver to Toronto.

Instead, life brought her back to Victoria where she belonged.

She had been a producer and writer with CTV in Vancouver for eight years when, in October 2009, her father John was diagnosed with cancer. After that, she would spend

five days a week at work, then rush over to the Island to be with him for the weekend.

“After a while I said ‘What am I doing? What are my priorities?’ I decided to come home.”

As fortune would have it, a reporting job came up in Victoria. She began work there on April 2010.

Born in Wales, Louise first came to Victoria as an infant. She attended Gordon Head and Lambrick Park schools, then travelled extensively — Japan, New York, Australia — before studying at BCIT and beginning her television career in Vancouver.

The Tour de Rock is the 32-year-old’s second big charitable effort

this year. She travelled to Honduras in December to lay the groundwork for a World Vision campaign in which she was immersed in February and March.

She acknowledges the emotional toll of reporting on children struggling with poverty or disease. “Those are stories I love to do, but also hate to do.” Riding the Tour is a chance to build a better life for children and others fighting cancer.

“It’s a chance to raise awareness for the kids and for my dad.”

Louise Hartland can be reached at [email protected] or 250 414-6510.

Like many of us, Shawn Hall had the desire to do something great to battle cancer. But also like many of us, he knew achieving that greatness alone was unrealistic. “I’m not a research scientist, a doctor, or a millionaire,” the 35-year-old Campbell River man says.

Happily, signing on with Cops for Cancer gave him the opportunity to make a significant contribution as part of a team. “It’s nice to be able

to physically do something.”

Hall recognizes that his role, riding a bike, is just part of an equation whose sum is greater than its individual parts. He’s grateful for the contribution of the volunteers and Canadian Cancer Society staff who have, after 14 years, made the Tour de Rock a well-oiled group effort�

He has his own reasons for fighting back against cancer. “For me, it’s kind of personal. My mum passed away when I was 16.”

Hall was born in Toronto, but moved to Campbell River as a toddler. He has spent his life there, attending Maple Elementary and Southgate schools. He worked as a

wildland firefighter before catching on with the Campbell River Fire Rescue seven years ago. He has been an auxiliary member of the RCMP for almost six.

Hall, an army reservist who has enjoyed exploring the outdoor playground around Campbell River as a hiker and climber, says he’s honoured to represent the north Island communities that have embraced the Tour with such enthusiasm.

Shawn Hall can be reached at [email protected] or 250 923-8100.

Shawn Hall

Had he not stopped to answer the ringing phone on his way out the door, Insp. Scott Green would have gone into the military, not the police.

Having done officer training, he was literally on his way to sign a three-year contract with the Canadian Forces. But the phone call was from the Saanich Police, offering him a job. “My destiny could have changed within a minute.”

That was in late 1987. Green, 46, has been with the department ever since�

Law enforcement is in his blood. Born in Alberta, he moved to Vancouver Island as an infant when his father Blake, a Calgary police officer, joined the Victoria Police. Scott attended Doncaster, Lansdowne and Mount Doug schools and earned a degree at UVic before embarking on his own career.

The family got a scare when Blake, who retired from the Victoria Police in 1997, was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. Scott joined the Tour de Rock in part as a way of thanking the health

professionals who gave his father such good care. Scott was, in fact, riding an exercise bike in the gym, reading a magazine piece on Lance Armstrong, when it occurred that riding the Tour would be a good way to give back.

As someone long dedicated to health and fitness, he has been impressed by the level of commitment demanded of members of the Cops for Cancer. “When you’re into it and you like the people and the training and believe in the cause, it’s easy to be motivated.”

Scott Green can be reached at [email protected] or 250 475-4364.

Const. andy Harward

Const. Andy Harward has been a police officer for 12 years. He was hired by the Calgary Police Service in 1999 and became a member of the Saanich Police Department in 2004. Born in Barrie, Ontario, he moved to Victoria in 1976. Andy grew up in the West Shore, going to Happy Valley, Spencer and Belmont schools. He studied Criminal Justice at Camosun College before earning a psychology degree at UVic.

Over the course of his life, he has been personally affected by cancer. He was a young child when his father died of lung cancer. “My father was a large man when he started his battle with cancer. When he died, cancer had reduced him into a mere shadow of a man,” says Harward. The 40-year-old has also lost an aunt to cancer. These personal exposures to the disease gave him all the reason he needed to plunge into the Cops for Cancer cause�

The training and fundraising commitments leave little time for his wife and two daughters. He acknowledges the pace is taxing. “I wasn’t expecting the training to be this demanding,” he says. “It’s definitely something that takes a

lot out of you, but knowing that I have a unique opportunity to help out those who are affected by and being treated for cancer makes it all worthwhile.”

He also has his daughters in mind. “If the unthinkable happened and they needed treatment for cancer, I would know that I helped raise some of the funding that allowed for further research for those required treatments.”

Andy Harward can be reached at [email protected] or at 250 475-4321 (ext. 1190).

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To Brittany king, the Tour de Rock is a chance to join the war on childhood cancer for the long haul. “It’s an opportunity for me to be a better person, to see and feel something that you want to fight for the rest of your life. It’s not just a seven-month journey.”

The 26-year-old can already trace her Tour roots back to her days as a teenage Thrifty Foods employee working fundraising barbecues in

Sidney. “I’ve got pictures of me at an awkward 16 years old selling hot dogs for the Cops for Cancer. I had barrettes in my hair.”

king is one of three media riders this year. Raised in North Saanich, she went to Deep Cove Elementary and Glenlyon-Norfolk School before entering BCIT’s broadcast communications program�

She did radio work in Alberta for five years, spinning country tunes in Fort McMurray and Red Deer. It was fun, but on visits back to Victoria she would take long walks down Saanich Peninsula roads, turn to her mother and say “I can’t wait until this gets to be my home again.”

That happened in April 2010, after a brief stop in Powell River proved a stepping stone to Victoria’s kOOL-FM, where she can be heard weekdays from 10 am to 3 pm.

She knew from colleague Robin Farrell’s efforts in 2010 that the Tour de Rock is a full-on commitment, but was still eager to plunge in. “I don’t think I’ve ever been this busy in my life.” And that’s a good thing.

Brittany king can be reached at [email protected] or 250 386-1073.

Brittany King

At first glance, it might seem odd that so much positive can be drawn from the darkness of childhood cancer.

Yet Const. Sandra Holman isn’t the first Tour de Rock rider to be inspired by the hope and determination of those who have joined the fight. All that positive energy makes a nice antidote for cops whose days are filled with bad guys and victims.

“This is a total 180 to what I’m used to doing,” says Holman. “It’s not as though people call the police when they’re happy.”

Still, Holman, who grew up in Port Coquitlam, is happy with her career choice. She was doing post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, was on her way to being a lawyer, when her school work put her in contact with policing. “I thought ‘I’d be better at this.’”

Nanaimo, where she now works on property crime, was her first RCMP posting. It’s a great place to follow her outdoor passions: hiking, kayaking, running, fishing and, now, cycling as a member of the Tour de Rock. “I love biking and I

love the people who surround me,” she says.

Those 80-kilometre training rides were a challenge for the 30-year-old, though. “When you think you’re in shape, a hill will get thrown at you and you realize you’re not in as good condition as you think you are.”

But hills aren’t chemo. With a positive attitude, mountains can be climbed.

Sandra Holman can be reached at [email protected] or 250 754-2345.

Const. Sandra Holman Const. Mike Massine

Const. Mike Massine’s heart goes out to those whose children have cancer. They abandon careers, make huge financial sacrifices, soldier on through anguish and fear. “If there are any heroes in this world, it’s the parents of kids who are sick,” says the Victoria Police Department officer.

Massine is close enough to know. His 19-year-old stepdaughter,

Jenny Hile, lives with a rare condition called Wolf-Hirshhorn syndrome. “She’s reliant on adults for every basic need.” Jenny is tube-fed, can’t speak, has had two open heart surgeries, and only began to walk a few years ago.

The challenges faced by Jenny, her mother, the Tour de Rock junior riders and their parents leave him feeling both appreciative of his own good fortune and eager to make a difference� “It gives you the passion for why you want to ride, makes it real.”

Massine, 47, was raised in Medicine Hat, Alta, but came to Victoria as a member of the military police in

1995. He was hired by the Saanich Police in 1996 before moving to the Victoria department in 2003. As a bicycle cop, he spends his days pedalling around laden with 30 pounds of gear, only to jump on a road bike for gut-busting Tour de Rock training sessions after work. “It’s tiring, I won’t lie.”

Const. Mike Massine can be reached at [email protected] or 250 995-7654.

James Matsuda’s eyes were wide open going into the Tour de Rock.

As the produce supervisor at Courtenay’s Thrifty Foods store, he works alongside Rick Gaiga who, as a fellow RCMP auxiliary, rode the Tour de Rock in 2010. Matsuda’s wife Belinda helped organize the red serge gala at Crown Isle and was active in Gaiga’s fundraising efforts. Through them, James understood just how time-

consuming the training, fundraising and other commitments would be in the months leading up to the journey itself.

“You have to have an understanding family and workplace, just to fit everything in,” says the 45-year-old father of four teenagers. “It’s not just you who’s doing it. The whole family has to be behind it.”

James grew up in Ashcroft, but moved to Courtenay to work in the grocery industry in 1986, and has been there ever since. That gave him plenty of opportunities to see each year’s edition of the Cops for Cancer stop at Thrifty Foods for a pancake breakfast. He admired their effort.

Like many, Matsuda has personal reasons for getting involved. He lost both his father and father-in-law to cancer. Thrifty’s colleague Christina Buijs, who helped fundraise for the Tour before finally losing her own long fight with the disease, was an inspiration, as is another co-worker and good friend who is battling breast cancer.

James Matsuda can be reached at [email protected] or 250 338-4233.

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Const. Steve Robinson’s cancer hit as it does many, unexpectedly and without warning.

As a well-conditioned and longtime fitness professional on Vancouver Island, he seemed healthy when wife kathi convinced him to get a routine check-up and blood tests in March 2009. “I was diagnosed with testicular cancer the following day and was in surgery two days later to have my right testicle removed.”

Fortunately, the disease was caught

early and hadn’t spread to areas such as the abdomen and lungs. Although off work and enduring rehabilitation, Robinson was able to avoid chemotherapy and radiation treatments. “I was very lucky that my wife made me see my doctor” the 36-year-old now says. “In retrospect, she saved my life.”

Robinson, a Saanich Police officer since 2007, knows his cancer history leaves him in a unique position on the Tour de Rock team, particularly in relation to parents and children who have struggled with cancer. “It puts you within a family of people that you otherwise wouldn’t be associated. It gives you an instant, inexplicable bond.”

It’s what leaves childhood cancer survivor Matt kercher the freedom

to phone for a chat, or Junior Team Member Jack Westhaver comfortable enough to show up at the door to chew gum and laugh like they were old friends, yet 27 years apart in age. It’s moments like those that mean the most to Robinson during the Tour experience.

“What I pictured coming into the Tour de Rock was sitting down with a group of kids, laughing our faces off and forgetting that we had cancer.”

Steve and wife kathi were both born and raised in Victoria and are parents to two amazing daughters, Brooklyn, 4, and Jordyn, 15 months.

Steve Robinson can be reached at [email protected] or 250 475-4321 (ext 1227).

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Most Cops for Cancer members stay involved in the cause after their year on the bike. Bill Peppy is an anomaly: He was up to his ears in the Tour de Rock well before doing the ride.

Bill and wife Debbie have long been part of a Cops for Cancer golf tournament. The couple took on responsibility for the event in 2006, moving it from Arbutus Ridge to

Parksville’s Morningstar course. They also got to cook for the 2010 team, helping their friends from the Rocky Mountain Food Group when the Tour hit Tofino.

But only Bill, as an auxiliary with the Oceanside RCMP since 2006, gets to actually ride this year. (He’s grateful to Debbie, who was left to do the lion’s share of the organizational work for this September’s tournament.)

Why ride? “It’s about going to the next level of giving back.”

He wasn’t sure that would be physically possible at one point. An injury suffered at age 14 while

growing up in the Cowichan Valley left him with pins and plates in his hip. But he handles the bike just fine, albeit with one knee that sticks out and a steep learning curve to ascend. “I’d never used clipped-in pedals until our third or fourth ride in March,” he said.

Peppy, 44, is the bakery operations manager for Country Grocer when not in uniform. He is also head instructor of the Oceanside Martial Arts School in Parksville

Bill Peppy can be reached at [email protected] or 250 248-4951.

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The Tour de Rock is very much a family affair for Const. Aaron Murray — in more ways than one.

“My dad was diagnosed with cancer in 2008.” Stage four lymphoma, they said. “It hit me like a tonne of bricks.” It also gave the 33-year-old Saanich police officer all the incentive he needed to jump on the bike.

Aaron’s dad is in remission now; retired to Nanaimo after a career that took the family all over B.C.

Aaron himself graduated from high school in Port Alberni before attending the University of Victoria. He was a personal trainer before catching on with the Saanich Police Department six years ago.

He is surprised by how emotional the Tour de Rock experience has been, and how quickly it became so. “It’s amazing how much of a family it is and how happy these kids are,” he said while watching his fellow Cops for Cancer riders enjoy a day in the trees with Junior Team Members — children with a history of cancer — at the Wild

Play adventure course in Colwood. “You think of what they’re going through, and they have big smiles on their faces.”

Mounting up to help those kids was an easy decision, he says. “I have the ability, and it’s a great cause. If it’s something I can do, then I should do it.”

Aaron Murray can be reached at [email protected] or by calling 250 475-4321 (ext 1212).

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It might seem odd, but Const. Stephanie McFarlane came to Cops for Cancer by way of the Balkans.

Born in Chilliwack to a military family, she herself joined the Navy in 1991, serving as navigator on such Esquimalt-based ships as HMCS Vancouver, HMCS Regina and HMCS Huron.

But it was a 2002 peacekeeping tour to Bosnia that got her interested in policing. She found

she enjoyed the interaction with the people there, liked helping them navigate through post-war challenges like drugs, gangs and prostitution. She joined the Saanich Police in 2004.

That made her eligible to join the Tour de Rock, a cause that had intrigued her even before becoming a police officer. “The good that can come out of it inspired me,” the 38-year-old says.

She is also inspired by the memory of a friend, a fellow naval officer who came to live with the McFarlane family (with a one-year-old son and four-year-old daughter, Stephanie is the only mother on this year’s team) after being

diagnosed with stomach cancer.

It was painful watching his decline. “He ended up just withering away before our eyes.” One night the man woke Stephanie and her husband at 1 am, asked them to call 9-1-1. “That was the last night he spent in our place.” After hospital treatment failed, he died at home in the care of his parents.

“The thing I think about when tired on a ride is Cam. My husband and I miss him every day.”

Stephanie McFarlane can be reached at [email protected] or 250 475-4321 (ext. 4352).

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While he has volunteered at Cops for Cancer red serge events for the past few years, it wasn’t until this winter that, sadly, the Tour de Rock became personal for Const� Steve Trevor�

It was in December that a baby boy named Griffyn was born to two of his fellow Mounties at the Comox Valley RCMP detachment. One of the last ultrasounds taken before birth showed something

wrong. Griffyn was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Doctors took out one of his adrenal glands as a newborn. By seven months of age, he was already on his fourth round of chemotherapy.

“He’s my motivation for this,” Trevor says of Griffyn, his Junior Team Member.

Born and raised in Port Alberni, Trevor graduated from high school there in 1992 before heading off to Simon Fraser University.

He has been a Mountie for 11 years, the first four up in Haida Gwaii, the last seven in Courtenay. “It’s an awesome spot,” he says of the Comox Valley. “It’s a great place to raise children.”

Being a father of six- and eight-year old daughters, he can’t help but put himself in the shoes of Griffyn’s parents.

“It makes you appreciate what you have. I can’t imagine going through what they’re going through with my kids.”

“It motivates me and hopefully it will motivate others to get off the sidelines and be part of the fight.”

Const. Steve Trevor can be reached at [email protected] or 250 338-1321.

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When Const. Sandi Swanson tells people she has just done a 100-kilometre training ride, they look at her like she’s crazy. Ditto for the idea of climbing the Malahat — both ways.

But then, the 34-year-old herself is taken back by some of the places she has found herself pedalling in preparation for the Tour de Rock. “If I was to hop on a bike, I would

never go to Mill Bay for the heck of it.”

Swanson has long been fit and active, but the Tour put her on a bike for the first time since junior high. “I was surprised by how challenging it was to start with.” The training in incremental, though, pushing the edges of the riders’ comfort zones week by week until they find themselves in places they wouldn’t have imagined.

And while cycling might be hard, it’s not cancer. Learning the story of Junior Team Member Ella Smith had an emotional impact on Swanson. “Just hearing that she had brain surgery, then chemotherapy, at

age three. How does a three-year-old do that?”

Swanson grew up in Merritt in the B.C. Interior, moving to Vancouver to study criminology at Douglas College. She worked as a sheriff for a couple of years while pursuing her goal of joining the RCMP, which she did in 2000.

She served four years in Salmon Arm and another four in Creston before being posted to the Greater Victoria Regional Crime Unit in 2008.

Sandi Swanson can be reached at [email protected] or 250 405-7110.

Const. Sandi Swanson Steadfast support for the journey

For the best part of seven months, Rob McDonald spends his free time riding a bike at the back of the Cops for Cancer pack. Come Tour de Rock time, he watches the riders from the rear- view mirror of a police car.

McDonald, a Saanich police constable, is in his fourth year as the Tour’s head trainer. He shows wobbling newbie riders the secrets of group cycling, leading the practices on southern Vancouver Island — hills on Tuesdays, speed on Thursdays, long rides Sundays — while Const. Dave kokesch of the Oceanside RCMP does the same in the north.

Both McDonald and kokesch are part of the support crew who travel with the team as it grinds through its 1,000-kilometre, two-week journey in the fall. About a dozen volunteers accompany the riders each week, keeping them safe, well-fed and ready for the road ahead.

McDonald’s motivation for volunteering can be found at home. Lochlyn was born in the summer of 2007 — the year her dad rode the Tour — with Costello syndrome, a rare disorder that leaves her at risk. “I have a daughter who is susceptible to childhood cancers,” Rob says. “You can only ride

the Tour de Rock once, so this is my way of staying involved and supporting the cause.”

It is also a way to thank the former riders who comprised the support team when Rob cycled the Island. “Only past riders can understand what present riders are going through, physically and emotionally.”

McDonald’s job this year is to drive the vehicle directly in front of the cyclists, setting the pace all the way from Port Alice to Tofino in Week One. Two other police vehicles, including one carrying a paramedic, protect the riders from behind. Up ahead, three motorcycles clear the route for this little caravan, leapfrogging from intersection to intersection, ensuring no unsuspecting logging trucks or rubbernecking tourists pull into the riders’ path. More motorcycles are added as the Tour reaches built-up areas.

Preceding them all are luggage-carrying trucks and a motorhome from which the beloved Moho Mama ladles out hot soup to rain-soaked riders at highwayside pull-outs.

Almost all the support crew volunteers are drawn from the 230 riders who have participated in the Tour de Rock since 1998. They carry luggage, prepare food, tend to broken bikes and broken riders, then finish off their evenings in the laundry room. And really, who wouldn’t want to end a dawn-to-dusk day by washing the sweat-soaked, mud-caked riding gear of two dozen cops?


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were on hand when friends and family gathered in Ladysmith in his memory last October, kokesch acting as master of ceremonies. There is now a vision for a mid-Island children’s hospice in Callum’s memory.

The thing to remember is that Callum’s story, as hard as it is, is increasingly rare. The five-year survival rate for all childhood cancers combined is 82 per cent — an increase of 11 per cent in 15 years. In the 1960s, four of five children who had leukemia died; now 90 per cent win their fight. Treatments are becoming less invasive, too, with fewer side effects.

The advances are thanks to the money raised for pediatric cancer research, with million of dollars a year coming from the Canadian Cancer Society. The Cops for Cancer play a major role in raising the funds.

The Tour de Rock, having raised more than $15 million since 1998, is also key to the success of Camp Goodtimes, allowing the Society to send more than 600 children and family members there each year, free of charge.

It all happens because people on Vancouver Island have embraced this cause as their own and decided to make a difference. It happens because people like Tammy Dougan don’t give up, just like she never gave up on Callum, the boy whom cancer couldn’t stop from smiling.

“I believe in life after life,” she says. “I believe that Callum is still with us, that he is still a part of our lives...we just can’t see him.”

Callum’s Story

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What made the loss of little Callum Brown particularly hard to take was that it was so unexpected, so sudden, to those who only knew him from his smile.

When the Tour de Rock ended in Victoria last October, there he was scampering around the stage at Centennial Square, delighting the riders with the look of sheer joy that never seemed to leave his face.

“He was so happy, right to the end, that you didn’t know anything was wrong,” says his mother, Tammy Dougan�

But it was just a few days after the Tour finale that the two-year-old Ladysmith boy complained of a stomach ache. By the time the medical tests were done, the doctors could only confirm what Tammy didn’t want to believe, but knew inside: Callum’s cancer was back, again. “I kind of had a feeling. You just sort of know.”

The end came quickly. Callum passed away in Canuck Place in Vancouver on Oct 18, 2010, with Tammy, dad Jesse Brown and brother Zachary, then seven, by his bed.

Not every story has a happy ending. No matter how great the advances in the treatment of childhood cancer, tales like Callum’s still happen heartbreakingly

often — which is why his family remains actively engaged in the Tour de Rock.

“The Tour supports childhood cancer research, as well as Camp Goodtimes,” Tammy says. “I know kids who go to Camp Goodtimes. I see them post pictures on Facebook, and I stay in touch with their families.” It’s for them, for all the children like Callum, that she stays involved. Zachary, now eight, is an honorary Junior Team Member on this year’s team. “He’s excited to do it.”

Callum was born April 10, 2008. He was just 4½ months old when a lump was detected in his abdomen, the discovery resulting in mother and son being airlifted straight from Nanaimo to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. His cancer was so aggressive that they started him on chemotherapy even before determining what type of cancer he had: neuroblastoma.

“We were there for two months before we could even leave the hospital,” Tammy says. In fact, they spent only 28 days at home in the first seven months after his diagnosis. “Zach and Jesse came to visit almost every weekend.”

They almost lost Callum during a bone marrow transplant, but finally, just two weeks before his first birthday, he got to return to Ladysmith.

That summer was good. He became part of the Cops for Cancer Junior Team, meeting his Tour de Rock rider, Const. Dave kokesch of the Oceanside RCMP, at a team barbecue in Goldstream Park that July. When Dave finished his ride in October 2009, Tammy was able to tell him Callum’s tests were clear.

But a month later, Callum had stopped walking. The cancer was back, this time in his leg. A tumour shattered the top of his femur, left him in a full cast from the chest down for seven weeks.

“The doctor said he would never walk again.” But Callum had other plans. “He totally surprised her,” Tammy says. “He ran into her office 12 weeks later.”

That’s how the Tour de Rock riders remember him, always on the move, always smiling. Many of them

Meet the newest member of the Cops for Cancer family, Ryder the mascot.Children can meet the real Ryder, a big furry fellow, at Tour de Rock events this year.

He’s a gift from General Paints, one of the many corporate good citizens who help the Tour de Rock wheels go round — and keep its operating costs low.

Among the many sponsors are longtime benefactors such as Vancouver Island’s Co-op gas stations, which fuel all the Tour’s support vehicles, and Coast Capital Savings Credit

Union, which pays for the riders’ training jerseys and makes a substantial cash donation. Thrifty Foods stores do an incredible job fundraising and providing food for Tour events. The Trek Bicycle Store of Victoria provides the bikes and much of the riding gear.

Such contributions from the business community mean other donations go where they’re needed most: pediatric cancer research and programs for children with a history of cancer. That includes Camp Goodtimes, the free summer camp near Maple Ridge.

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So, exactly what is the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock and how did it come to be, anyway?

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The simplest answer is that it’s a two-week bicycle journey in which a team of police officers rides 1,000 kilometres from the north end of Vancouver Island to the south, raising money to fight childhood cancer. Since 1998, the Tour has raised more than $15 million for the Canadian Cancer Society, which uses the money to fund pediatric cancer research and programs that help children with cancer and their families.

The more complicated answer is, well, complicated. How to describe the way in which the people of Vancouver Island have embraced the cause as their own? How to quantify all the work — all the head shaves and hot dog sales done by the fiercely dedicated fundraising committees in each of the 27 communities that the Tour rolls through each fall? How to measure the satisfaction that comes from fighting back against the disease that struck the ones you love?

In some ways, the thread of this story stretches all the way to Alberta and 1994, when Edmonton police sergeant Gary Goulet befriended a young boy with cancer. Chemotherapy had robbed the boy of his hair, exposing him to ridicule from other kids.

Goulet, who already had a shaved head, wanted to show the boy that it was Ok to be bald, offered to pose for a photo with him in front of a police cruiser. Other cops joined in. In fact, seven shaved their heads for the occasion. That, in turn, grew into a fundraising initiative with the money going to the Canadian Cancer Society�

By 1997, the Cops For Cancer head shaves had reached Victoria. The local police weren’t satisfied with breaking out the razors, though; they wanted to try something bigger. A brainstorming session between the cops and the Society resulted in Saanich constable Martin Pepper’s suggestion of a bike ride the length of the Island.

Pepper and Penny Durrant of the Victoria Police assembled and trained a team of 14 riders, while the Canadian Cancer Society enlisted the help of community sponsors, including Coast Capital Savings. That first ride in 1998 pulled in $325,000.

Since then the amount has grown and grown. Participation among the police — municipal, military and Mounties — has increased, too: A total of 208 police officers and 22 others have ridden the Tour since 1998. A brand new team is picked every year (the only rider allowed to participate twice was Pepper, who completed his second journey in 2007).

The 2011 team, made up of 19 police officers and three members of the media, will add to the totals. So will the people of Vancouver Island, who have taken it upon themselves to lead the fight against childhood cancer.

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Support Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock Start your own fundraiser. Participate in a headshave. Volunteer. To get involved, contact:

Cynthia Durand-Smith, Revenue Development Coordinator — Vancouver Island RegionOffice: 1 800 663-7892 ext 228 or 250 380-2352 • Cell: 250 888-9497 • email: [email protected]

Glenda Turner, Community Fundraising Coordinator — South Vancouver Island Cell: 250 893-4757 • email: [email protected]

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