Corinne Ambor, Delphine Pereversoff: it's s important that you can still play with your friends when

you're disabled.

Elks giving traditional launch to
summer with annual Sports Day

For the seventh year the Terrace
Elks are inviting local families to
come out to their annual Sports
Day on Victoria Day, May 20.

It will be a day-long event, 9

am. to 4 p.m. at Elks Park on
Agar Ave. Activities will include
wheelbarrow, three-legged, sack,
and long-distance races, a tug 0°
war, treasure hunts, and a parade.

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Refreshments and food wiil be on
sale, with each child under 14
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hot dogs, ice cream or pop.

Prizes will be awarded for cos-

tumes and decorated bikes and
wagons in the parade, Clowns will
be wandering the park all day.

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here in the Northwest.

In a recent interview, Corinne
Ambor, director of community
relations and development for
the B.C. division of the Cana-
dian Wheelchair Sports Associa-
tion (CWSA), said that wheel-
chair sports is a new breed that
integrates the disabled with the
able-bodied.

You don’t have to be dis-
abled to participate; most people
who play aren't disabled at all,
but what’s so great about it is
that it’s an equalizer. Every-
body's the same. It’s not nearly

— as intimidating for the new-

comer.’”

Ambor explains that part of
the reason for the popularity of
wheelchair sports is Rick
Hansen and the Man in Motion
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of money to wheelchair sports.
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among the best in Canada and
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Olympics and various other
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But most people who _par-
ticipate in wheelchair sports
aren’t aiming for world records
or gold medals. ‘‘You don’t have
to be of Rick Hansen’s calibre,”
Ambor says. ‘‘That’s what’s so
great about it; you don’t have to
be a great athlete. Most people
are out there just to have some
fun, keep fit and meet new peo-
ple.’? Basketball seems to be the
most popular wheelchair sport
(there are 1,135 Canadian wheel-
chair basketball players).

As with most organizations,
volunteers are the life blood of
the CWSA, One such key
volunteer is Terrace resident
Delphine Pereversoff. Perever-
soff became interested in wheel-
chair basketball while attending
school in Kitimat, and now plays
on both the Terrace and Kitimat
teams.

“It takes a while to get used to
it, but now I’m hooked, I love
it! The real value of wheelchair

sports is peer support. It’s really:

important that you can still play
with your friends when you're
disabled. They (able-bodied peo-
ple) can get in a wheelchair with
you. I think sports can change
people’s attitudes and percep-
tions toward others.”’

The Kitimat team, the Walk’n
Rollers, was formed seven years
ago by Bob Thorpe after he suf-
fered a spinal cord injury that
put him in a chair. The team is
now ranked as one of the best in
the province (they took second
place at the provincial cham-
pionships held in Prince George
last month). They have also
recently formed a juniors team.

Still in its infancy, Terrace’s
team came into being last Oc-
tober thanks to the efforts of a
local optometrist, Dr. Paul
Clark, who is described as a key
volunteer and avid participant.
‘“We need more people like
Delphine Pereversoff and Paul
Clark to get teams going,’’ Am-
bor says.

One of the obstacles facing
the Terrace team are the wheel-
chairs themselves. A sport chair,

‘which is designed for speed and

flexibility, costs $2,000, and
regular maintenance and repairs
alone can be costly. But our resi-
dent team should be getting
some much needed financial
help through the sale of lottery
tickets.

‘‘Break-Open’’ tickets will
soon be on sale at two local bars
(and at one Kitimat bar). ‘‘The
nice thing about this is that the
funds the CWSA receives from
these tickets (funds are divided
between the lottery corporation,
the bar and the charity) must re-

main in the region. So tickets

sold in the Northwest will go
towards helping Northwest
teams,’ Ambor explains.

The Terrace wheelchair bas-
ketball team plays every Mon-
day night in the gymnasium at
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School, Anyone interested in
joining can call Delphine
Pereversoff at 635-6262 and
leave a message.

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