by alex | Aug 31, 2020 | John's Blog
After breakfast at our motel we headed out to our start point west of Pickering and people are already starting to make donations before we get on the road. Late in the morning just as we completed a couple of TV interviews we got caught in a downpour. Lucky for us,...
by alex | Aug 30, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 103 – August 30th, 1995 Our day started with a great breakfast at Sean’s grandmother’s house. Jesse was on the front page of the Toronto Star sports section and in a Toronto Sun picture with Don Cherry and Darryl Sittler and the Stanley Cup at the Hockey...
by alex | Aug 29, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 102 – August 29th, 1995 Again, we are up very early to drive east on the QEW heading to CITY-TV. There’s a beautiful sunrise and things got very quiet in the van when Jesse casually mentioned that he had never seen a sunrise. I guess we are all guilty of sometimes...
by alex | Aug 28, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 101 – August 28th, 1995. The day starts at 5:30 as we get Jesse dressed and after a very quick breakfast, there are five us in the van heading into Toronto. (Ed note: The five were Jesse, Road Manager Trish Federkow, Jesse’s attendant Sean Bagshaw, volunteer Don...
by alex | Aug 27, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 100 – August 27th, 1995 After a not so good night, we are up and drive to our start point in Acton. I can’t believe I’m this tired before we even get going. I pick up the pace pretty good and Marilyn Sargeantson, the mayor of Halton Hills, joins us on the road....
by alex | Aug 26, 2020 | John's Blog
We start day number 99 on the road in Guelph and immediately people are honking and donating. They seem to be in a very good mood. They may have seen us on last nights baseball game on television or maybe they saw us on the front page of today’s Toronto Sun....
by alex | Aug 25, 2020 | John's Blog
Our morning started at Glen Morris Road, west of Cambridge and we made good time getting into Cambridge, but unfortunately very few people seem to know about us. This is the struggle we are going to face the same as everyone faces when they are working to introduce...
by alex | Aug 24, 2020 | John's Blog
(Ed’s note: On the day we reached Brantford in 1995, it was what I would call a pretty routine day on the road. Things went smoothly even if we didn’t raise a lot of money along the road. When we started our journey back in May, I knew there would be a lot of days...
by alex | Aug 23, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 96 – August 23rd, 1995 (Ed’s note: Sometimes we forget things. I forgot to mention that when we were in London, Jesse had a chance to share some time with his friend Colin. Colin has Cerebral Palsy and when Jesse and Colin were in school together, Colin wanted to...
by alex | Aug 22, 2020 | John's Blog
Day 95 – Tuesday, August 22nd, 1995 We resumed our journey from where we left off late afternoon on Monday at Shaw Sideroad and pushed on to Thamesford. The weather is nice, Jesse is feeling rested and we are moving quickly as we make the turn at Thamesford, trying to...
