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National Inside Ride Tour

Like Salt Fish for Rum

There are three things Newfoundland is widely known for the world over: plaid shirts, an uncommon accent and Screech. Started as a trading commodity with salt fish to Jamaica, Newfoundland made this island dark rum their own infusing it with American sailor legend and a no-name bottle to fuel its notoriety. Getting “Screeched-In”, amounting to knocking back a generous shot then kissing a cod fish (an ode to the drink’s southern trade roots), is a Newfoundland staple, particularly for visitors to St. John’s hankering for a bit of Newfie culture and a good time on George Street. But it’s also known for its unfailingly friendly locals. It’s an island full of “loves”, ” sweet hearts” and “darlin’s”, patient drivers and a Sunday-morning kinda ease. Maybe it’s something in the water, or maybe it’s in the Screech. The island ease of Jamaica brought over in a bottle centuries ago finding a welcoming and capable home in Newfoundland. It’s got a romantic ring to it; islands geographic and cultural miles apart sharing the same bottled, laid-back notion of life and living.

And that notion of life and living is what the Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation advocates above all. And it’s what’s taking us across the country now. Advocating and fighting for the life and quality of living of children with cancer and their families, the country over. Kids like Becky Courage and Adam in St. John’s. It’s an admirable and often overwhelming endeavour that has us toiling on our knees at the grass roots level, working with the communities and families mano-a-mano to get these children out of the cancer ward for a day, a week and ultimately for ever. Every day we raise money for the local charities these very kids and their families benefit from directly, charities like Camp Delight and Newfoundland and Labrador Candlelighters. We quite literally see the money filter in from the donors, then 100% of it filter directly back out to them. It’s rewarding, honest, real and necessary.

The laid-back notion of everyday life and living inherited from Jamaica might have arrived in a bottle to the shores of this beautiful island but the notion of preserving life and living is in the bloodline of the people here, and all across this country. The National Inside Ride Tour is heading out to exploit it and do all we can to make sure these children feel life and know they’re living it.

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