Our AGM was held early this year, in an effort to attract more members, while skiing was still fresh in our minds. It seemed to be a good strategy, as we had the best attendance ever! The following members were elected or re-elected to the...
Festival 2016 volunteers including great crew from Searchmont - Brad, Drew, Ben and Jim. Also from Ontario - Gwen (working with the Race Development students) and Jamie (coordinating all students and volunteers) and Debbie (acting as Director of Fun). See more images on our Facebook page...
On Thursday February 11 Spinal Cord Injury Ontario held their 16th Annual Ski & Snowboard Day at Craigleith Ski Club. On a cold snowy morning with a ski hill covered with a blanket of fresh snow, 9 volunteer CADS Instructors along with their counterparts from Track...
Camryn LeClair was a student with your program at Horseshoe this winter for the first time. She is non verbal and has no muscular control at all including her head. She skied with Angus, Kevin, Ashley and my husband Wilfrid. On her school trip day...
In 1992, Nirvana and Pearl Jam were blasting on the radio, A Few Good Men were trying to handle the truth in theatres, and 10 year-old Gabor Takacs was hitting the slopes for the first time. Fast forward to today, and Gabor is now the...
A great day at Craigleith, as twelve para athletes came out to race down Big John. All categories were represented, standing, sitting and Visually Impaired. Next February Ontario ParaSport Winter Games will take place in February, and it is hoped that more CADS participants will...
Due to the lack of snow, the sessions we moved indoors to introduced new volunteers to both the adaptive equipment and techniques use in our programs covering sit-ski, teaching aids, outriggers for three and four track skiing, working with students with cognitive impairment, as well as discussions on duty of care and best practices...
Diane Morrell was motivated to take up skiing so that she could enjoy an activity with her son who started snowboarding lessons 15 years ago. She joined CADS and started skiing in the No Limits program at Searchmont Resort near Sault Ste. Marie in January...
Jamie Spencer has been a lifelong skier and became a CADS volunteer 20 years ago when his friend saw an advertisement for the CADS program at Horseshoe Valley in Barrie and suggested they check it out. Since then Jamie has volunteered at a handful of adaptive...
Our Provincial Para Team started off the season with at training camp and race at Panorama, during the first week of December. We headed up the chair lifts in the dark each morning, and hoped the sun would be up by the time we reached the...