Curtis Hargrove (Runner) Wiki, Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth

Lakeland Connect article about his visit and talk with schoolkids at the “Me to We” event https://lakelandconnect.net/2016/03/03/curtis-hargrove-inspires-kids-at-dr-b-for-me-to-we-day/

Curtis Hargrove is a Canadian long distance charity runner, and fundraiser. He ran from Port Alberni, British Columbia to Burbank, California to raise awareness for the work of Angel Magnussen in 2015. He walked from Cold Lake Alberta to Edmonton Alberta in 2013 for YWCA Edmonton’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. He ran across Canada to raise money for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation in 2012-2013. In 2007, he ran across the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta to raise money for the Terry Fox Foundation. He has been raising money through endurance since he was 15 years old. He, with his family (in his home community of Cold Lake), coordinated a 24-hour floor hockey tournament raise money for Sandra Shipclark (who suffers from cerebral palsy) in order to get a new, up to date communication device in 2005.

On August 30, 2015, Hargrove embarked on a 2,440-km run from Port Alberni, BC to The Ellen DeGeneres Studio in Burbank, California with the intention of delivering a Hugginz by Angel blanket to DeGeneres. The company Hugginz by Angel is a non-profit belonging to Hargrove’s friend Angel Magnussen, a 19-year-old with down syndrome and autism. Magnussen creates the blankets for children with terminal illness. Her wish was for DeGeneres to visit her Port Alberni studio in so she could help her sew blankets for sick children.

On October 18, 2015, after 50 days of running , Hargrove reached the Burbank studio but Ellen was not there. Although he was able to contact Ellen’s production team, he was told that all they (he and his support driver) could do was leave gifts in a pile by the back gate. Although he was disappointed, he was not discouraged. Hargrove decided to keep the blanket, and bring it home with him “where he could continue to share it with people and spread the Magnussen’s story until it eventually catches DeGeneres’ attention.”

On January 16, 2013, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Lac La Biche, Alberta.

While recovering from his second bout of illness (vomiting blood), and after having broken off to attend the 100th Grey Cup as one of the Scotiabank Game Changers, Hargrove announced he would be putting the run on hold until the Spring of 2013. He was not stopping the run, but could not continue due to the drastic winter weather conditions. His RV was not adaptable to the extreme cold. He said in his announcement to his Facebook followers that his decision was not due to his health problems, but the number of accidents he was seeing on the road. He also reminded them that more fundraising and events would be coming up over this winter break, to help reach the goal of raising 1 million dollars for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.

The “Curtis Hargrove’s Run Across Canada for Cancer” began May 4, 2012, on the east coast of Newfoundland at St. John’s, with Hargrove expecting to arrive in Victoria, British Columbia sometime between October 24 and November 4, 2012. He was able to cover approximately 50 kilometres each day. Hargrove was attempting to raise a million dollars for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation for cancer research. The foundation was part of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. As of July 4, 2012, he has raised approximately $14,000.

Hargrove was one of 8 champions of regional charities across Canada to be selected, after a process of online voting and deliberation by a panel of judges, to be presented on the field at the 2012 Grey Cup. The $100,000 National Gamechanger prize went to Angel Magnussen for Variety The Children’s Charity of BC. Angel was the Gamechanger for the BC Lions.

On August 5, 2012, he was presented with a City of Thunder Bay medal by Councillor Mark Bentz.

In 2007, when he was 18 years old, Hargrove raised $50,000 when he ran across British Columbia and Alberta for the Terry Fox Foundation.

Hargrove, born in Germany, moved to Cold Lake, Alberta with his family when he was less than a year old. He was 24 years old at the time of his cross-Canada run. He has been involved in marathon running for several years, winning the 2004 Centennial Marathon in Edmonton, Alberta. The course was 42 kilometers which he completed in three hours, fifty-seven minutes, and forty-two seconds.