OLDS — Unfortunately, no members of Olds & District Special Olympics (ODSO) qualified for the upcoming Special Olympics Canada Winter Games, but they’re achievers on another front -- the Inclusion Donut fundraising campaign.
The Special Olympics Canada Winter Games will be held Feb. 27-March 4 in Calgary.
“We have nobody going to the Winter Games in Calgary as our 5-pin (bowling) team came in second in their division (and) our skier placed second in his division,” ODSO chair Karen Mengersen wrote in an email.
“It would have been nice to go because it is so close to home, but alas, it shall not be.”
However, local special Olympians struck gold with the Tim Hortons Inclusion Donut campaign.
From Feb. 2-4, Tim Hortons sold a limited edition Special Olympics donut, with all proceeds going to local Special Olympics programs.
Mengersen says $1,694 was raised with the help of ODSO athletes.
“That is 847 donuts,” she wrote.
Athletes from the Olds & District affiliate who participated were David Weidner, Sandra Jurgec, Colton Fahlman, Christa Lavis, Adriene Briand, Sheila Daye, Roxie Nickel, Brent Sprague, David Franz, Sean Mullaney, Evan Tippe, Kendal Fisher, Randall Permann, Nancy Jensen, Cathy Vickers, Nicole Palardy, Taylor Green and Mark Mengersen.
