The 6th Annual Cambridge Area Rotary
Ski/Ride/Skate Sale - November 23-24
Location: Cambridge Elementary School - 186 School Road Jeffersonville, VT 05464
Drop Off Sale Items: November 22 from 6:00- 8:00PM
Please bring your used equipment and gently used snow sport clothing. Alpine, telemark, and cross country skis, snowboards, skates, and snowshoes will be sold on consignment. Sellers will receive 80% and 20% will go to the fundraiser. No straight skis please! All bindings must be able to pass a safety check. Gently used snow sport clothing also accepted. A variety of snow sport shops will also be on hand with inventory for sale.
SALE HOURS:
Saturday November 23 – 8:00am – 4:00pm
Sunday November 24 - 10:00am – Noon
Reason for the Sale –This Cambridge Area Rotary (CAR) FUNdraiser benefits both the Cambridge Elementary School Winter Wellness Days at Smugglers Notch, and the Cambridge Community Skating Rink. Over the past 5 years, CAR and Backcountry Magazine have supplied financial support for the Cambridge Elementary School Winter Wellness days. These groups have been able to cover the expense of the Winter Wellness Days for all 4th – 6th graders in the Cambridge school system. Thanks to these efforts and other community support, both students and chaperones enjoy three fun-filled days of winter sports. Each session includes a snow sport lesson, lift ticket, and equipment rental - all at no cost to the children. This is the LAST CHANCE ski sale of the season. Don't miss out on your opportunity to pick up some new equipment and get rid of your old.
For more information:
For more information about the Sale visit RotaryCambridge.org or call or email Nanci at 802-343-2372 or lepsicslodge@gmail.com. Think Snow!
History
Before Jeffersonville Skiways, Madonna Mountain Ski Area, and long before Smugglers' Notch Ski Resort, Cambridge children experienced skiing and other outdoor sports through some variation of the Cambridge Ski and Ride Program.
According to Cambridge resident Muriel Shipman, Ginny Hunt first took her and a gaggle of young skiers on a jaunt through her sugarbush in 1953, and the grassroots program grew from there. Shipman, who later ran the program from the mid 1960s through late 1970s, says the effort was always on the shoulders of volunteers and sponsored by the Cambridge Elementary School. Today the Winter Wellness Days program is sponsored and supported by CES, the Cambridge Area Rotary and Backcountry Magazine. Winter Wellness Days fully subsidizes the cost and provides chaparones for the upper classes at Cambridge Elementary School. This year, with the addition of fourth grade, the program is expected to help over 120 children from 4th through 6th experience the wonder of winter sports on three separate schooldays this winter.
Over the years, hundreds of kids who may never have had the opportunity learned to ski and snowboard as a result of the efforts of generations of townspeople. One of those lucky children grew up to become Donna (Fletcher) Ebbett, Marketing Director for Garmont, a Williston ski boot manufacturer. "My parents did not ski, and without this program I may never have been introduced to skiing," says Donna. "I have three sisters and all of us now work in the ski industry." So, in addition to promoting healthy lifestyles and an appreciation for the outdoors through skiing and snowboarding, the program has stimulated the area economy and created local employment in the ski industry.