By Sarah Rae

Local student honoured by school mates in Terry Fox Run

Oct 1, 2016 | 9:02 AM

Students and staff at a local school came together Friday to do the Terry Fox Run in honour of one of their own.

Kindergarten student Dylan Delorme-Dressyman and his mom Tiffany Delorme led the Terry Fox Run at St. Mary School in North Battleford on Friday, Sept. 30.

Vice-principal Amanda Risling said Dylan and his family are a big part of the school and the community really rallied around him as he battles cancer.

“He’s a fireball, he’s awesome, he lights up a room when he walks in. All the kids today were fighting over who was going to hold hands with Dylan,” she said.

Before the run, Risling led a ceremony where the students offered prayers to Dylan and compared his personality traits, such as being brave and kind, to Terry Fox.

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Risling said parents and students have been supportive of Dylan and happy to accommodate his needs, like increased sanitization in his classroom and keeping students home when they could be contagious.

“I think the kids understand and sadly enough most kids now have somebody that has had cancer in their family or their circle, so the word cancer is familiar to a lot of our students,” she said.

Risling said they’re fortunate, as a Catholic school, to be able to bring faith into talking about and supporting Dylan.

Last year, when he was going through chemotherapy treatment, the students and staff held hands to form a prayer chain all the way around the school.

Sarah Rae is battlefordsNOW’s court and crime reporter. She can be reached at Sarah.Rae@jpbg.ca or tweet her @sarahjeanrae.