104-year-old WWII vet is walking 104 laps of his B.C. home to raise money for charity
Global News
For the fourth consecutive year, John Hillman will be walking around the courtyard of his Carlton House home for 10 days, raising money for Save the Children’s emergency fund.
At 104 years old, most people would expect to be slowing down.
But Oak Bay, B.C., resident, John Hillman, is not quite ready to do that yet.
For the fourth consecutive year, Hillman will be walking around the courtyard of his Carlton House home for 10 days, raising money for Save the Children’s emergency fund.
When he was 101, he walked 101 laps; when he was 102, he walked 102 laps; when he turned 103, he walked 103 laps and now he wants to walk 104 laps.
“My birthday was coming up on the 18th of March of this year, 104 years old and they gave me the dates for the first to the 10th of May,” Hillman told Global News.
“I’m doing so many laps a day and that should complete me for 104 laps.”
Hillman will start his walk every morning at 10:30 a.m.
He has lived in Canada for the past 23 years but was born on March 18, 1919, in Newport Mon South Wales.
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