A 99-year-old Newmarket man plans to walk 100 kilometres by his birthday in a bid to raise money for medical research amid the coronavirus pandemic.
George Markow, a Second World War veteran and resident of a Newmarket retirement home, hopes to raise funds for the Sunnybrook Research Institute and the Southlake Foundation’s COVID-19 Action Fund.
Markow plans to walk around the path in the home’s garden over 1,500 times, as 15 times equals about one kilometre. “I enjoy that.
That’s a little thing for me to do.” Markow’s daughter, Sylvia Perkins, has created a GoFundMe account for his efforts, which as of Friday afternoon had raised over $8,400 of a $100,000 goal.