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Tessa Bonhomme honorary chair of Cancer Run 

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Tessa Bonhomme, one of Canada’s 2010 Winter Olympic gold medal winners, is volunteering with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure as the Honorary Chair for the Sudbury Run Sunday, Oct. 3.

The Run is Canada’s largest single-day, volunteer-led national event to support the breast cancer cause. This year  it bring together Canadians in more than 60 communities with the  common goal of creating a future without breast cancer. While Bonhomme recognized the value of the event in itself, it is her personal experience with breast cancer that made her want to be come involved at the local level.

 “My Baba (grandma) Sylvia Zinn was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001,” says Bonhomme. “She had a very difficult and long recovery, but I’m proud, and thankful, that she is counted now as a survivor. I admire her for her strong will and determination to fight.”  

As honorary chair, Bonhomme will make personal appearances at several events and fundraisers in Sudbury over the next few months. She will also captain Team Bonhomme for the Sudbury Run site and will be challenging others to participate or donate to this worthwhile cause.

Members of the public are encouraged to follow the Sudbury Run site on Facebook and Twitter to find out where and when Bonhomme will be representing the Sudbury Run site. 

(Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/manage/?act=48058717#!/pages/Sudbury-ON/Sudbury-Run-Site-CIBC-Run-for-the-Cure/71320552514)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ThinkPinkSud

Members of the public are welcome to sign up to be part of Team Bonhomme by visiting http://www.runforthecure.com and registering for the run.  Donations to the team can also be made by following the same link.

Bonhomme is a member of the gold-medal winning 2010 Canadian Women’s Olympic Hockey Team and currently plays for Calgary Oval X-Treme.  In 2008, she completed her college hockey career as captain at Ohio State University and was named a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given annually to the top player in NCAA women’s hockey – the first-ever Ohio State player to be a two-time finalist for the award.  In 2003-04, she was named to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association All-Rookie Team and Ohio State’s Rookie of the Year.

Locally, Bonhomme was a member of the Sudbury Lady Wolves Intermediate AA hockey team from 1998-99 through 2002-03, captaining the team in her final season and is a graduate of Lasalle High School.  She also attended Carl A. Nesbitt P. Westmount Public School.

The first Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Run, held in Toronto’s High Park in 1992, drew 1,500 participants and raised $83,000. Since then it has become Canada’s largest single-day, volunteer-led, national event to support the breast cancer cause.  It raises well over $4 million in Toronto every year and $26.5 million nationally for breast cancer research, education and awareness programs.

 This year marks the 13th CIBC Run for the Cure in Sudbury. Last year, more than 1,500 participants raised over $275,000.  Local organizers hope that the community can continue its impressive fundraising trend and reach a new high of $300,000.

The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 1986 as the first organization in the country devoted exclusively to the funding of breast cancer research, education and awareness initiatives. The Foundation continues to blaze new trails in breast cancer and breast health by directing donor dollars to world-class researchers and clinicians who are contributing to groundbreaking progress in breast cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care. Since 2000, the Foundation has directed over $68 million to the cause in Ontario alone as a result of fundraising initiatives like our signature event, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure, hundreds of thousands of donors and the efforts of a committed volunteer network numbering in the thousands.