Toronto Wheelchair Relay Challenge a Huge Success

For Immediate Release: September 22, 2008

MEDIA RELEASE

Toronto Wheelchair Relay Challenge a Huge Success

Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario held its 13th annual Toronto Wheelchair Relay Challenge yesterday morning, September 21, at Yorkdale Shopping Centre. More than 60 teams took to the track and raised over $286,000, the most ever raised at one of the organization’s provincial Wheelchair Relays. Over 1,000 people were present at the event.

Teams were made up of 8 people with and without disabilities. Each member of the team was required to complete one lap around the track equal to .75km. The following is the Winners’ List:

Top Individual Pledge Raisers

Individual Name                    Team Name                            Amount

Third Place       Kevin Rogers                            CPA Super Supporters             $5,310

Second Place   Peter Athanasopoulos             Thompson Rogers Dream Team $8,025

First Place        Jill Hopkins                               Jill's Pals                                   $14,098.71

Top Community Team Pledge Raisers

Team Name                            Amount

Third Place                   Wild Wheeled Women             $5,034

Second Place               CPA Super Supporters             $11,021

First Place                    Jill's Pals                                   $14,098.71

Top Corporate Team Pledge Raisers

Team Name                                        Amount

Third Place                   Thompson Rogers Dream Team           $9,080

Second Place               Cassels Brock Lawyers                          $14,253

First Place                    Harris Wheelers Beaters                      $15,885.70

Fastest Teams

Team Name                                                                Time

Third Place                   Sunrise Medical Inc.                                                     18.04

Second Place               Rolling Stones (Carranza Barristers and Solicitors)      7:12

First Place                    Cassels Brock Lawyers                                                15.51

Legal Challenge Winner: Cassels Brock Lawyers

Most Determined Team: Adair Morse Wild Things (Adair Morse LLP)

Most Team Spirit: ES Penguins

Joanne Smith emceed the event. Also featured were onsite activities and entertainment for spectators including clowns, face painting, a stilt walker, Charlie Chaplin, Dough Dude, a pizza spinner, Bubble play, inflatable bouncer and the Blue Thunder Argo Cheerleaders. Shayne Smith, an Ambassador of Paralympics Ontario, motivated the crowd with his opening remarks.

“Thanks goes to all of the people who were either on a team, a volunteer, a sponsor, or a fundraiser, and to all of those people who helped spread the word about the event. They all joined together and worked as a team to make this event so successful,” said Lynn Mineque, the Event Manager.

Many thanks to the Toronto Wheelchair Relay Challenge provincial sponsors including: TD Bank Financial Group, The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company, Pace Law, and Kino Mobility. Thanks also to our generous local sponsors Harris Steel Group, Scotiabank, Yorkdale, Lerners LLP, Torkin Manes Barrister and Solicitors, Fireman Wolfe LLP, Himelfarb Proszanski LLP, Henderson Structured Settlements, Baxter Structures, Expedia.ca and Carol Bierbrier and Associates.

For more information about this event, please visit www.cpaont.org/media.

-30-

Contact:

Gillian Lynne-Davies

Communications Coordinator

Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario

(416) 422-5644 x 212

gillian.lynne-davies@cpaont.org