Fond du Lac youth depart in inaugural bike-a-thon
A group of teens from Fond du Lac is turning an annual pilgrimage into a bike ride for youth suicide awareness.
According to Jake Mercredi, a councillor from the Fond du Lac Denesuline Nation, residents in northern Saskatchewan make an annual pilgrimage to Lac St. Anne in Alberta. This year, he wanted to do things a little bit differently.
“The way I wanted to put it, is it’s for youth suicide awareness, just to put it out there, [letting them know] that there’s things out there for them,” Mercredi said.
Mercredi said the youth trained for months by riding their bikes around the community and running on treadmills in preparation for their journey, which covers some 640 kilometers.