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Pickering College students lap Fairy Lake in time-honoured tradition

Every year, Newmarket's Pickering College students do the three-kilometre Booker's Run, a tradition initiated by a former teacher who was a cross-country enthusiast.

Following a time-honoured tradition, Pickering College students and staff ran around Fairy Lake today for the annual Booker's Run.

The three-kilometre race around Fairy Lake is named in honour of the late Keith McLaren, a former Pickering College teacher, coach and assistant headmaster who was renowned for doing everything "by the book", according to communications manager Naomi Côté.

The early route for the run was on the farmland that surrounded the school, before it was sold in the mid-1980s. The first run, in 1980, was organized by a former French teacher, Larry Thornton, who was a cross-country enthusiast.

The timing of the run is intentional, when the school's sports program is in transition between fall and winter.

"When the farm was sold in the mid-1980s, the run was switched to a less gruelling course around Fairy Lake," Côté said in a news release.

Pickering College is Canada’s only Quaker-founded independent day and boarding school for boys and girls from junior kindergarten to Grade 12, founded in 1842.

 



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