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Re: The annual Terry Fox Run

Nearly 30 years ago, the world lost one of its most inspiring citizens when Terry Fox passed away at age 22.

His courage and determination inspired millions of people around the world and continues to do so to this day.

"We're really looking forward to raising the profile of the Terry Fox Foundation in New Brunswick in anticipation of the 30th anniversary, when we'll be back on the Confederation Bridge," says provincial director Onne de Boer.

Millions of people around the world have continued his journey and raised over $400 million for cancer research to achieve Terry's dream of a world without cancer.

Even with the millions of dollars that have been raised, our voyage is far from over. Tremendous progress has been made with more and more people surviving their battles with cancer each year, but we still have further to go.

"If you give $1, then you are part of the Marathon of Hope," said Terry in 1980.

It's still true.

Eighty-seven cents of every dollar donated to the Terry Fox Foundation goes to fund cancer research. When you donate to Terry Fox, you can be confident that your donation makes a difference. So get involved.

Donate your time, money, even a story of how cancer has affected you or someone you know.

Let's keep Terry's dream alive and put an end to cancer.

For more information call the Terry Fox Foundation toll-free at 1-888-836-9786 or visit us online at terryfoxrun.org.

Tony von Richter

Fredericton

Event was a huge success

Re: Fourth annual Countryfest

The fourth annual Maritime Countryfest held in the Historic Garrison District on June 11-14 will go down in the history books as an outstanding success.

For the first time in the Capital City area, francophones and anglophones celebrated in a festive mood to the sounds of 1755, along with eight other country groups over the four-day event.

The move to feature only local talent this year was widely accepted by the majority of the patrons who attended.

Special thanks to the Province of New Brunswick, the City of Fredericton - especially Mayor Brad Woodside and council, Dave Seabrook and his staff, Art Brown from parks and trees, our corporate sponsors: Downtown Fredericton, Molson Canadian, Country KHJ, Crowne Plaza, Thornton Vantassel, The Daily Gleaner, Tony's Music Box, Nashwaaksis Lions Club, First Impressions, Global Maritimes, Covey Basics, The Advocate and Creative Juices.

Last, but not least, thanks to the committee and volunteers who worked tirelessly to help bring this festival together.

For those of you who attended, thank you for supporting this great event.

For those of you who didn't, you missed a good one.

Tom Hoyt

Chair

Maritime Countryfest 2009

Just pass the hat

Re: Pension for Mayor Brad Woodside

It is nice that some people wish to show appreciation for the mayor and vote him a pension to make his old age comfortable or, maybe, they are just trying to buy him out. Either way, they should just pass the hat for donations.

Our tax dollars will be needed to pay for the huge debts the administration has incurred to build Fredericton's folly across from the glass house and all the other buildings that will make our town the Toronto of the east.

Tom Hickie

Fredericton

Complete waste of money

Re: New school cashless payment system

Our daughter recently brought home a notice from Leo Hayes High School saying that they will be introducing a cashless payment system next fall.

Kids would purchase items using a debit system with their fingerprint as their ID. I was floored by this.

This past year we have been told of cases where the school district had to cut back because of lack of money.

For one, our daughter had to share books because they could not afford some books for each kid.

We also recently learned busing services will be cut next year because of budget shortfalls.

So here they are cutting things people really need but then go and try to implement a multi-million dollar cashless payment system we don't need.

I've been a big fan of Shawn Graham, but I don't yet see him in this government.

What I see is the same old Frank McKenna ideology that gave us the Wackenhut (jails), Andersen Consulting (computer system), and MRDC (toll highway) fiascoes.

This cashless payment system is more likely a backdoor approach to eventually fingerprinting the population and a way to ultimately get more income via service fees.

I think the premier should remember New Brunswickers already rejected the Frank McKenna approach and cancel such useless and expensive schemes.

After all, our province's fiscal situation is in bad shape and another election is not that far off.

Peter Kincaid

Fredericton

We should be thankful

Re: June 25 letter to editor on terrorism

We should all be thankful that these suicide bombings aren't happening in Canada.

You know full well that some clueless politicians would use these tragedies as an opportunity to create a backpack registry and ban car trunks!

But, seriously, if world governments would spend half as much to help sick and vulnerable individuals as they spend on armaments and pointless legislation, maybe there wouldn't be as many desperate actions, such as suicide bombings and murders.

Take Canada as an example, we might not spend millions on rocket launchers, but we certainly did waste $2 billion on the long gun registry - money that could have been put to better use helping vulnerable individuals.

Michel Trahan

Verdun, Que.