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Monday, June 29, 1981

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Issue date: Monday, June 29, 1981
Pages available: 92
Previous edition: Saturday, June 27, 1981
Next edition: Tuesday, June 30, 1981

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bob free press 2 Winnipeg free press. Monday june Mckay ready to Roll by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press the Pas a Cree Indian who says he is ready to begin a metre wheelchair Marathon next Mon Day says he is not attempting to imitate Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox who died in Hospital yesterday. Francis Mckay 23, of Moose Lake says he is often accused of being an imitator of the one legged runner who captured the admiration of the nation and raised More than million for cancer research. It s not he said in an inter View. Naturally i read everything i could about him and he s been a tremendous inspiration but i m doing this on my own. Want to show people that they should at something big and never look Back whatever their the mass kiss wheelchair in Cree Marathon begins at the Pas july 6. Mckay plans to wheel his Way South along major highways to Winnipeg and Back by aug. 29. He will Start each of his planned 50-Kilometre laps at 4 . To avoid the kind of heavy traffic mishaps he experienced while training. Blown off Road in a trial run earlier this month Between the Pas and Cranberry por Tage a distance of about 90 Kilometres Mckay was forced into the ditch twice by passing vehicles. Once he was blown from the Road and the other time Side swiped by a Large camper trailer he said. I was damned mad at the Mckay said. But my anger pushed me into doing More. I was determined not to let anything Stop Mckay woke up last August Para lazed from the neck Down following a car Accident. The vehicle rolled Over and Mckay managed to walk away shocked but with no apparent injury. The paralysis set in the next morning. According to a Hospital spokesman in the Pas the form of the paralysis is As yet beyond the doctors Mckay spent six weeks at the Winni Peg health sciences Centre undergoing tests and therapy. Slowly he began to get some movement in his left wrist. Then the right started coming around and the left one would become paralysed for Short periods. I Tell you it was hard work trying to move your arms when you had no sensation. I ;