A wave of red rolled into The Westin Harbour Castle in downtown Toronto on Thursday, July 10 as Team Canada's athletes, coaches and mission staff were honoured among friends and supporters with a fitting celebration on the eve of their training camp.Special Olympics Canada would like to acknowledge the tremendous support of The Canadian Progress Charitable Foundation. Represented by Janey Davies (pictured above centre), who is also a member of SOC’s board of directors, The Canadian Progress Charitable Foundation was the sponsor of the three and half-day intensive training camp.
TSN's Vic Rauter, a generous friend of SOC, and Team Canada figure skater Zane Salera-Nasra shared hosting duties of the opening ceremony. Highlights included a rousing entrance by the national team, who were accompanied by members of the Law Enforcement Torch Run, and of the Flame of Hope, brought in by Barb Gesualdo of the Toronto Police Service and accompanied by alpine skier David Boudreau, cross-country skier Eileen Ramsay, bagpiper and ceremonial guard; 
and the announcement of the team's official logo, which was created by the team at Grey Canada, one of SOC’s communications sponsors. Under “heavy police escort” Martin Fingerhut, a member of SOC’s board of directors, delivered the high-anticipated voting results to Grey's art director, Evan Young.Enjoy these photos. More to follow in next month’s post.
