Oxford Special Olympics Winter Games 2012
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ALL systems go for Special Olympics Summer Games in Wolfville
Runners leave the starting line during an athletics competition at the 2010 Special Olympics Nova Scotia Summer Games in Wolfville. The event is being held in Wolfville again this year, this coming weekend July 12-14. – Special Olympics Nova Scotia
Published on July 10, 2013
Topics : Special Olympics Nova Scotia , Acadia University , Wolfville , Acadia , New Minas
By John DeCoste
jdecoste@kingscountynews.ca
KingsCountyNews.ca
More than 900 athletes, coaches, mission staff and other supporters, including more than 90 from Kings County, will converge on Wolfville this weekend for the 2013 Special Olympics Nova Scotia Summer Games, hosted by Acadia University.
Athletes will begin arriving at noon on July 12, with marshaling for the opening ceremonies beginning at 4:30 p.m. and the ceremonies themselves beginning at 5 p.m.
The Law Enforcement Torch Run, co-ordinated by Kentville Police Chief Mark Mander, will begin in Kingston at 3 p.m. and travel through Berwick, Kentville, New Minas and Wolfville, arriving at Acadia around 5:45 p.m.
Kings County Special Olympian Phillip Brown, who earlier this year earned his 100th medal in Special Olympic competition, will be part of the torch run and will carry the torch into the opening ceremonies.
Competition is set to begin at 7 p.m. on Friday and continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 13 and from 8 a.m. to noon July 14, with most of the gold medal games in the team sports set for Sunday.
The athletics (track and field) competition will take place on Acadia’s Raymond Field, with soccer on the Acadia dyke fields and swimming at the Acadia pool.
Bocce and basketball will also be at Acadia, while softball will be played at Lockhart and Ryan Park in New Minas, golf at Ken-Wo in New Minas and five-pin bowling in Greenwood.
According to Special Olympics Nova Scotia communications spokesperson Ann Marie Shannon, 2013 is a qualifying year for the national Special Olympics, which will be held in Vancouver in 2014.
This year, for the first time, a Youth Fun Day will be held July 13 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The location had not been announced prior to press time.
"The Youth Day is a new component, aimed at younger children aged four to 12 with disabilities, to introduce them to Special Olympics in a fun way," Shannon said.
She said there would be a contingent of 71 athletes and 22 coaches and mission staff from Kings County, for a total of 93 participants. Local athletes will compete in soccer, bowling, swimming, athletics and bocce.
All are welcome to drop by and take in any or all of the competition. A copy of the full schedule for the Special Olympics Summer Games can be viewed HERE.
Visit www.kingscountynews.ca for coverage of the event.
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CANADA'S TERRY CLARK- NO FEAR- SPECIAL OLYMPICS-honour dignity respect
COMMENT FROM GERMANY:
3:04 says it all... never quit
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Snowman (Alex Kang Chan KAM) || Special Olympics 2013 Opening
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Korea trip "once in a lifetime experience" for Brown, Mander
Special Olympian Phillip Brown and Kentville Police Chief Mark Mander spent 10 days in Korea as torch bearers for the Special Olympics World Games. – John DeCoste, www.kingscountynews.ca
Published on February 20, 2013
By John DeCoste
jdecoste@kingscountynews.ca
KingsCountyNews.ca
Special Olympian Phillip Brown and Kentville Police Chief Mark Mander are back from their trip to the Special Olympics World Games in Korea, and according to Mander, they gathered "enough memories to last a lifetime."
Brown and Mander were in Korea as part of the Law Enforcement Torch Relay – Mander representing the police and Brown, a 20-year Special Olympics veteran, as one of 10 worldwide Special Olympics ambassadors. Only two ambassadors were chosen from Canada.
They weren’t part of the actual competition, only the build-up to it – though they did get to interact with some of the Canadian athletes and mission staff, and in particular, those who were representing Nova Scotia.
Their official role as torchbearers and ambassadors ended after they carried the torch into the stadium where the opening ceremonies were held. They were back in Canada before the actual competition concluded.
The LETR carried the Olympic torch around the country, stopping in a number of communities and ending up at Pyeongchang, where the Games were being held.
In all, Brown and Mander were in Korea for 10 days - they left Canada Jan. 20 and returned Jan. 31.
"Every time we brought the torch into a community, they would have a celebration for us," Mander said. "The mayor, the governor, the chief of police would all be there. There was singing, dancing, displays of local culture and wonderful community support everywhere we went."
There were other events as well as the torch run, including a ‘polar plunge’ into the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean, in which both Brown and Mander took part.
Mander stressed that his best memory of the trip "is how well Phillip did." As a Special Olympics ambassador, he got to make a total of speeches in a number of different communities, including one at the closing.
On one occasion, "he even said hello and other things in Korean, which really got the crowd going," Mander added. At the closing, Brown recited a poem he wrote while they were there.
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Brown did so well, in fact, that Mander confirmed, "they were talking about asking him to be a global ambassador for Special Olympics."
Both Brown and Mander ended up in the same core group, so got to spend most of their time in Korea together.
"(It was) a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I can’t imagine either of us would ever get the chance to do something like this again," Mander said.
Mander admitted he learned a lot. Korea, he said, is "all about energy-saving and conservation, and the community spirit was just great, in the entire country."
Mander added he had had some apprehensions about taking a group of Special Olympics athletes through customs, but it ended up being no problem at all.
"Phil started showing them all his medals, and they let us right through," he added.
Getting to see the culture and seeing the growth of the Special Olympic athletes was the best part of the trip, Mander said.
"Getting to experience that every day, and seeing how well Phillip did as an ambassador, is something I’ll remember for a long time."
Brown said that all the LETR participants ended up doing an impromptu dance, to the music of pop song Gangnam Style.
"It even ended up on the TV news. Of all we did and got to do, that’s my favourite memory," he said.
As Brown has said many times in the past, to him, Special Olympics "is more than the medals. It’s the camaraderie, all the friends you make, and the smiles on everyone’s faces when it’s over, win or lose."
For Brown, who had earned close to 100 medals in his career, this was a bit of a departure, to go to a Special Olympic event and not actually have to worry about competing.
"It was pretty moving at times. It was an honour to be a part of it."
http://www.kingscountynews.ca/Living/Community/2013-02-20/article-3180034/Korea-trip-%26ldquoonce-in-a-lifetime-experience%26rdquo-for-Brown%2C-Mander/1
Desire' Standing Outside the Fire sing along dedicated to Special Olympics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-NzNuZZzto
Standing Outside The Fire - originally recorded and video by GARTH BROOKS- such tears of pride- this is just incredible.... and so real...
Anne Murray and Dawn Langstroth Let there be Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZlYuJQoPTk
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