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A8 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday July 9, 2003 Marathoner kick starts UW campaign Solomon to participate in Lake Placid Inmman; $70,000 already collected By Wilma Blokhuis O \ K V IL ii; B l .AVI H S IA H - Deanna Solomon has been given 17 hours to swim 3.6 kilometres, cycle 180 kilometre* and mn 41.2 kilometres at the Lake Placid Ironman on Ju ly 21. "But I aim to do it in 12.5 hours." said Solomon, who is taking her 2003 Leadership Pacesetter Challenge to new heights. Solomon. Manager of Leadership and the Tomorrow Fund for the United W ay of Oakville (U W O ). has to date raoed $70,432 in leadership pledges to kick start this year's campaign, *urpassing her original goal of 550,000. Leadership donations consist of gifts of $1,000 or more given annually to I WO. She w ill be accepting pledges of $1,000 or more until Ju ly 25. " M> new goal is $77,000 - 77 was Tony G ab riel's old number." said Solomon of one of her Ironman sup porters. Gabriel, a C F L legend, wore \o. 77 on his football jersey. Gabriel, now with C IB C Wood Gunay. is the L 'W O 's Workplace Leadership Chair. Gabriel, inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in August 19X4. was the last Canadian to win the Schenlev for most valuable player in the C FL. - A _____ Deanna Solomon Strong support has also come from B ill Cooper of Cooper Construction, another I W O volunteer fundraiser. " I am very surprised and very appre- Open SUNDAY 12-5 pm I P ^ ^ f £ Open WfF E K m K m W ^ SUNDAY " " ^ 12-5 pm D IS T IN C T IV E L A D IE S F A S H IO N S SUM M ER Entire Selection SIDEWALK SALE ttaitioui 2pc. SAC Fashions Featuring: Blast. K-Wear. Northern Isles. Spanner. Liz Claibone. Korel. Line Up lor Sport. Susan Bristal. Woolrich & David Brooks Sum m er Dressing "P to $115 $ 499 8 Koret Francisca Mix `n Match Coordinates O ff Golf Wear and Weekend Casuals by Liz Clabibone 50* Mix n' Match Sportswear by Korinna Blast Weekend Wear Off 60S Assorted cialive of the support 1 have received from the U W O stafT. volunteers and donors." said Solomon. "The purpose of the challenge is to build excitement for our campaign in September, and have the leaders in our community lead our campaign to anoth er successful year," said Solomon. " And the fact that I get to do some thing I absolutely love while helping those in need in our community at the same time is a bonus." Solomon, a competitive athlete for the past four years, has competed in five marathons and triathlons since 2001, and a half-Ironman - a 200-metre sw im, 90-kilometre bike ride and 21.1 -kilome tre run - last year in Peterborough. " I feel confident about doing a full Ironman this year," said Solomon, who trains rigorously. " I train five days a week. I swim with a group in Mississauga two morn ings a week 1 go for long bike rides, and I fit in runs." Often she combines running with cycling while training. " I also do a bit of weight training and yoga." It started with weight training and working out in the gym about 10 years ago. " Four years ago I was at (the for mer^ Ferrone Fitness and Dan Ferrone (another former C F L star) got on my case about having a goal, so I started running half-maraihons and later full marathons." said Solomon. She ran the Boston Marathon in April 2000. She qualified for this event at the Niagara Marathon, her first marathon. Since then she's competed in Coming. NY. Ottawa and Washington. "W hen I first started doing triathlons. I couldn't even swim ." she admitted. Solomon joined the C3 sw im ming program at the M ississauga Y M C A pool. "This group is very sup portive and all levels of trialhletes train there." In April 2001, Solomon pur chased her bike. To support Solom on's 2003 Leadership Pacesetter Challenge, call the United W ay of O akville at 905-845 5571. The L'W O 's annual fundraising cam paign officially kicks off on Sept. 21 with the 40th annual Bathtub Race in downtown Oakville. Donovan Bailey, five-time W orld Champion and Olym pic gold medallist, is this year's honourary United W ay Bathtub Race chair. One in three people, or 42.000 peo ple, in this community use the programs and services pro' ided by United Was of Oak' ille's member agencies. Chantal Ayotte · Sp ecial to the O akville Beaver TAKING IT OFF FOR CHARITY: It might not be the full m onty. but O akville women are in for a treat Ju ly 24. That is the day when bartenders and bounc ers at Finnegan's W ake at 379 Speers Rd. w ill be taking o ff their clothes for the Breast C ancer Society of Canada. Pictured are, bottom left, doorm an Ryan M orrison (T h u n d en and doorm an I'revor G reer (Tsunam i). I pper left is b ar tender B ria n Sannach an (H u rric a n e ) and b artend er F ra n c is Thom as (Lightning*. Top is doorm an Layne G ard n er (Tornado). The $10 from each ticket for the show, which ow ner H ayley Magee is expecting to sell out quick ly, w ill go to the society. On top of that, the bartenders' are also donating their tips. The event was M agee's idea, and she said the men who are going to he involved " were really, really shy at first, but now they're really dedicated, doing three rehearsals per w eek." Tickets can be bought at the b ar before or on the day of the show. The shov starts at 8 p.m. Slurpee giveaway marks anniversary Slurpees for everyone' This Friday. 7-Eleven Inc. w ill cele brate its 76th birthday by hosting Slurpday. during wmch nearly half a million of the drink.-, w ill be given away free. Beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, each of the 490 7-Eleven outlets in Canada will start giving away 1.000 7. 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