Dumfries parents ready to honour teenage daughter at the New York City Marathon
dailyrecord.co.ukThe parents of a Dumfries teenager who died after a brave eight-year battle with a brain tumour are taking on a mammoth challenge in aid of the children’s charity that supported them through the worst years of their lives.Gary and Kirsty Jardine are preparing to run the New York City Marathon just two months after a fundraising ball that will mark what would have been Brooke’s 18th birthday.The couple intended to take on the 26-mile run a year after Dumfries Academy pupil Brooke died aged just 15 in October 2019, but Covid stopped them in their tracks.Now, they are determined to “give something back” to the causes that cared for their daughter while she was ill.Gary, 51, said: “We wanted to do something significant to mark the one-year passing of Brooke but obviously with coronavirus, we couldn’t do anything.“So we’ll be running the New York Marathon in November in aid of Young Lives v Cancer.“Previously known as CLIC, it is an amazing charity which provided incredible and invaluable emotional and financial support during Brooke’s long battle.“Every penny raised will go towards helping the charity support other children and young adults and their families with the incredible support to help them in their individual battles.”Before that, on September 3, Brooke’s Ball will take place at the Easterbrook Hall in aid of Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity and Dumfries Infirmary paediatric ward.Gary added: “It will be a very poignant night for us because when the clock strikes midnight, it will be Brooke’s 18th birthday.“That event was also supposed to be in 2020 for what would have been her sweet 16th.”Gary, Kirsty, 53, and Brooke’s sister Skye, 15, had prayed for a miracle that she would recover following the devastating
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