MOUNT VERNON — This summer, the Texas 4000 for Cancer 2022 team of more than 45 students from The University of Texas at Austin will return to Alaska for the first time in three years as they pedal through 20 states throughout the U.S. and Canada rolling through Mount Vernon on Saturday, June 25.
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