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Mud run helped raise $220K in 2022, Run for Our Lives says

Jesse, left, and Ollie take on the 2018 mud run in Yellowknife
Jesse Wheeler, left, and Ollie Williams take on the 2018 mud run in Yellowknife.

A committee fundraising for cancer care in the Northwest Territories says this year’s Yellowknife mud run helped to raise more than $220,000.

September’s mud run raised just under $130,000, including a commitment from CIBC worth $75,000 over three years, the CIBC Run for Our Lives Committee said in a press release earlier this week.

More than 400 people took part in the mud run.

The year’s grand total of $220,447 also includes an anonymous $75,000 donation and money raised through the Robin’s Nest golf tournament and a 50/50 raffle at Folk on the Rocks.

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Funds raised are being put toward the purchase of a new mammography machine for Yellowknife’s Stanton Territorial Hospital.

So far, Run for Our Lives in the NWT has raised $400,000 of the machine’s $600,000 price tag, the committee stated.