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Fun-filled week in Bigfork for DREAM Adaptive water sports
KALISPELL – It’s been a special week at Echo Lake in Bigfork for the 14th annual DREAM Adaptive Water Sports week. DREAM Adaptive works with individuals with disabilities in Northwest Montana to make outdoor activities more accessible. Throughout the week, 25 participants ages five and older have been water skiing, wakeboarding, paddle boarding and more. Sean Wells/MTN News Ty Espeseth and his twin brother Griffin put on a show on water skis, ripping across the lake. “It’s really nice being able to do just kind of move around in like a much faster way because you can only swim so fast, and you also get a really good breeze,” said…
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Holter Lake hosts Montana’s first adaptive wake surfing clinic
HELENA — Over 10 people with with limb loss, limb difference, and other physical challenges gathered Friday at Holter Lake for Montana’s first-ever adaptive wake surfing clinic. The event was hosted by local orthotic and prosthetic care provider, Hanger Clinic and prosthetic manufacturing company, Blatchford. “The biggest thing we want to do today, right is build community for these patients and get them out and show them something that they might never ever have an option or access to doing it. And so, you know, getting their friends and their families and these patients behind these, these boats with the Hanger prostatitis and the Blachford technology. It’s just, it’s really a special…
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DREAM Adaptive Recreation water sports week returns with support
DREAM Adaptive Recreation has been awarded a $7,500 grant from The Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund to support the non-profit’s Summer Water Sports Program. The grant will be used to help defray the costs of the program, which aims to empower individuals with disabilities through a variety of water sports. New this year, Launch Water Sports has also teamed up with DREAM to provide a boat and driver for all their motorized water days this season. “Our ability to provide empowering top-notch programming is a direct result of generous community support,” DREAM Executive Director Julie Tickle said. “Weyerhaeuser’s annual support allows us to consistently provide inclusive family-friendly programming that folks in our…
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Arizona Adaptive Water Sports Kids Day held for children with disabilities
Nine-year-old Bella Collett said she had “no words” after getting back to the Barrett Lake Marina late Saturday morning after her first-ever water skiing excursion. “Usually, I never get to do stuff like this, so I’m excited,” she said to The Arizona Republic. Collett uses a wheelchair because of her spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal cord doesn’t develop properly. She was one of dozens who participated in Arizona Adaptive Water Sports Kids Day on Saturday, an event that provides adaptive equipment and makes water sports accessible for disabled youth. “This is the opportunity she has to do something and to gain confidence and to see and meet other…
