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Adaptive water-ski event making waves on Lake Quinsigamond Waterskiing | from page 1
skiing, and to teach lake preservation, good sportsmanship and boating safety,” she continued. “Safety always being of the utmost importance.” She said the collective was started several years ago. They partnered with the Connecticut-based Leaps of Faith Adaptive Skiers, which is another nonprofit that has been providing adaptive skiing opportunities for decades. “There’s no other club in Massachusetts that does it,” Candela said. “There’s only four in New England that do it.” As she sees it, this is the collective’s way of picking up that torch. It’s an additional example of outreach of their mission statement to teach water-skiing. “Now we can say that we
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People on jet skis ride alongside a boat operated by the Webster Water Ski Collective.
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It’s just a feel-good situation where we can get these kids [who may not] have the means to get out on the lake … Linda Candela
People help Siddharth Suratwale into the lake.
can teach any age and any disability,” Candela said. She estimated that the Collective needed a jet ski, a boat and eight people to help put individuals on their adaptive water skis. All that
amounts to about $3,500 in equipment costs. The collective operates through donations. This event was free for participants. Learn more at https:// www.websterwaterski.org/.
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