New runner gets to carry torch

By News Staff

Posted Dec 24, 2009 04:58:56 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Janice Newton expects there to be plenty of emotion when she carries the Olympic torch on Sunday.

She gets the torch near the Waterloo Public Square.

Newton tells us she plans to run slow, considering you only get to carry it 300 metres.

She had to write a 200 word essay about being active.

Newton says she only started running when she turned 40.

570 News is live on location at Kitchener City Hall from 4 until 8-pm on Sunday for the arrival of the Olympic torch.

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