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| Team #: 16 |
Hunger |
| Competitor |
Athletic Background |
Wayne Cassidy
Woodbridge, Ontario
Age: 33
Treasury Manager
TEAM CAPTAIN |
Paddle Pool Splashfest Champ, Master of the Butt First Waterfall Drop Whitewater Technique and Pre-race Panic Expert. |
Andre Turcotte
Maple, Ontario
Age: 36
Minister |
3rd Mens SAC Fort coulounge July 06
2nd(Tied)overall SAC long course June 06
1st mens ESAR 06
5th mens SAC May 06
Course designer SAC winter race
6th co-ed deerhurst 05
6th male Bon Echo 05
4th open, 7th overall ESAR 04
4th co-ed, 6th overall - SAC winter 04
7th - RTN CDN Championship Matawa 03
2nd all male, 5th overall,SAC Winter 03
2nd co-ed,6th overall -SAC Kawarthas 02
7th - RTN Tri Town 02
1st overall -Salomon A C Perry Sound 02
1st - Acts, EXtreem canoe race
18th - RTN Eliot Lake 01
2nd - Toyota Outlast Calabogie 24Hr AR
Avid outdoorsman, mountain biker, hiker, and canoeist.
Former BMX racing school instructor & expert racer. |
Richard Ehrlich
Palgrave, Ontario
Age: 43
Dentist |
Team Canoe Leader and eBay Specialist
Richard is in charge of towing, taking extra weight in his pack, and running with a canoe on his head. He's the only one in Canada crazy enough to race on a 'bent (recumbent) mountain bike. Yes, he can do single track!
Background includes 24-hour MTB relays, adventure runs, summer & winter sprint races, Raid The North races, 3-day Eco Endurance Aventure, Canadian Ski Marathon (Coureur des Bois Gold), and about 30 years of wilderness tripping by ski, boat and boot, most of it with his wife, Barb. |
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| Team Profile |
We are racing to bring awareness to the plight of those stricken by poverty around the world and to encourage action. Canadians are some of the wealthiest people on earth as a result of living in a wealthy nation.
REFUSE to do Nothing!
We have a responsibility to those who are less fortunate to help them rise above their difficult circumstances.
Hunger:
-More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children.
-One child every eight seconds dies from malnutrition.
-There is enough food, experience and technology to end the problem of world hunger...the difficulty is the inequitable distribution of food and wealth.
HIV/AIDS:
-HIV/AIDS is now the fourth largest global killer and the largest killer in Africa.
-Six young people are infected with HIV?the virus that causes AIDS?every minute.
-Anti-retroviral drugs help extend the lives of people living with AIDS. These drugs are readily available in Canada, but a year?s supply of the drugs in under developed countries can cost as much as 2.5 times a person?s annual income.
Child labour:
-Child labour is work done by children under the age of 15 that restricts or damages their physical, emotional, intellectual, social or spiritual growth as children.
-An estimated 246 million children are engaged in exploitative child labour, about half of them are working full time.
-8 million children work in the worst forms of child labour?prostitution, slavery, bonded labour and armed conflict.
-In developing countries, every fourth child lives in a family with an income of less than $1 a day. |
| Sponsors |
World Vision - 30 Hour Famine
http://www.famine.ca/
Storm Adventure Racing
http://www.stormthetrent.com/
Adidas-Salomon Canada
http://www.adidas-salomon.ca/
Bicycle Depot
829 Albion Road (east of Islington)
416-741-1452
Running Free
http://www.runningfree.ca/ |
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