Cross-Canada cycling trek to raise awareness for organ transplants ends Sunday afternoon at Clover Point
The Vancouver Sun | Derek Spalding
Kibby Evans and her partner Daman Milsom dip their bikes into the Pacific Ocean off Clover Point Sunday afternoon after returning from a cross-Canada cycling trek to raise awareness for organ donation and transplants.
Photograph by: Darren Stone , timescolonist.com (September 2012)
Neither Kibby Evans or her partner Daman Milsom had ever done long-distance cycling until they set out on an 8,000-kilometre journey across Canada to get more people to become organ donors.
The couple dipped their bicycle tires into the Atlantic Ocean on June 2 in Cape Spear, N.L., and set out to raise awareness about organ transplants.
From the eastern-most point of the country, they fought the steep inclines of Canada’s mountainous regions, they battled high winds in the prairies and arrived in Victoria just three months later on Sunday afternoon.
Before the run ended, Evans was able to hug her father Barry Evans, who received a new liver in December last year. He’s the inspiration for the trip, which raised about $25,000 to help improve the lives of people living with new organs.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Kibby Evans and her partner Daman Milsom dip their bikes into the Pacific Ocean off Clover Point Sunday afternoon after returning from a cross-Canada cycling trek to raise awareness for organ donation and transplants.
Photograph by: Darren Stone , timescolonist.com (September 2012)
Neither Kibby Evans or her partner Daman Milsom had ever done long-distance cycling until they set out on an 8,000-kilometre journey across Canada to get more people to become organ donors.
The couple dipped their bicycle tires into the Atlantic Ocean on June 2 in Cape Spear, N.L., and set out to raise awareness about organ transplants.
From the eastern-most point of the country, they fought the steep inclines of Canada’s mountainous regions, they battled high winds in the prairies and arrived in Victoria just three months later on Sunday afternoon.
Before the run ended, Evans was able to hug her father Barry Evans, who received a new liver in December last year. He’s the inspiration for the trip, which raised about $25,000 to help improve the lives of people living with new organs.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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