As it has, and will, in more than 1,000 communities across Canada - the Olympic torch, on its 106 day journey from Greece to Vancouver, passed within 1500 m of my home last Saturday evening.
Ann and I stood with our friend and skate coach Mike Murray and his family and watched it come through the darkness up the hill that I've cycled and ran for the past 25 years. And be passed to another bearer in the park where we used to play with our own children.
Earlier that day, I had skated in Gage Park in Brampton where the ice was in unusually good condition - again with thanks to the torch which had lapped it twice the previous evening in the custody of sledge hockey player Ryan Bennett.
Photo courtesy of the Brampton GuardianIt's truly amazing and inspirational how one can be touched in small ways by something so huge.
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