A Tour de Rock team visits Miracle Beach Elementary, receiving an enthusiastic welcome from the students who sing, dance, and express their excitement for the riders.
I can hear the sound of tiny voices screaming with excitement as my Tour de Rock team pulls up to an elementary school just south of Comox .
We walk into Miracle Beach Elementary to a room full of children absolutely losing their minds, like we’re Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy all rolled into one. We’re off to another stop where we’ll run around giving high fives to cheering teens holding signs with our names written on them, or hugs to seniors who thank us with tears in their eyes for riding our bikes to raise money for pediatric cancer research.This rock-star treatment — mixed with an overdose of endorphins from cycling more than 400 kilometres over our first four days of a more than 1,000-kilometre ride of the Island — leaves us on a high as we finish our day in Courtenay on Wednesday.
“I was just a mess, because how do you digest that news? We went from he’s just going for his regular check-up to they found six tumors. He’s palliative,” she says. That was what he wanted, because the Tour de Rock became like family to him, Roberts says. He called her his best friend.
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