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Waterville Valley Adaptive SportsWaterville Valley Adaptive Sports is dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities through access and instruction in sports and recreation for life. We encourage freedom and self reliance through experiential opportunities in a safe and supportive environment with our highly trained staff and volunteers. The program enriches the lives of everyone involved, resulting in profound and lasting impact on individualism, health and well-being.
Waterville Valley Adaptive Sports is a 501c (3) organization, and your donations may be tax deductible. We rely on support from our generous donors and sponsors to provide services to our clients in a sustainable fashion. |
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I am Scott Vittner with the State of NH Vocational Rehabilitation Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired (SBVI), and we, along with staff from Sky’s The Limit who help us run our retreats, recently took 9 of our blind and vision impaired students to Waterville Valley for a 3-day retreat. On Monday January 30th we worked with James Waddell and his volunteers to give the students a downhill skiing experience. We have done 3 of these retreats previously in various locations working with other adaptive sports programs. All our experiences have been good until we went to Waterville where the experience was exceptional. James and the volunteers are obviously people who genuinely care about the people who take part in your program. The patience, energy, and enthusiasm they exhibited was again exceptional and the students at the end of the day all had smiles on their faces and talked about their guides and how much fun they had. The real evidence that shows the volunteer staff enjoys their work is 5 of the guides form the ski day came to the ice arena on Tuesday where we had rented the rink to give the students an ice-skating experience. They took time form their day to show up and assist our staff with students and it was very helpful. This is not something you see happening every day and it is a testament to the volunteers in your adaptive sports program and the type of people they are.
On behalf of the students and staff I want to sincerely thank James and the volunteers for making this a memorable experience and for helping show the students they can do things that others say they are unable to do and that there are people out there that believe in their abilities.
Thank You Scott
Scott A. Vittner
Deputy Administrator, M.S., C.R.C
Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired
21 South Fruit St. Suite 20
Concord, NH 03301
P:603.271.3774
F:603.271.3816
Scott.A.Vittner@doe.nh.gov
I am Scott Vittner with the State of NH Vocational Rehabilitation Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired (SBVI), and we, along with staff from Sky’s The Limit who help us run our retreats, recently took 9 of our blind and vision impaired students to Waterville Valley for a 3-day retreat. On Monday January 30th we worked with James Waddell and his volunteers to give the students a downhill skiing experience. We have done 3 of these retreats previously in various locations working with other adaptive sports programs. All our experiences have been good until we went to Waterville where the experience was exceptional. James and the volunteers are obviously people who genuinely care about the people who take part in your program. The patience, energy, and enthusiasm they exhibited was again exceptional and the students at the end of the day all had smiles on their faces and talked about their guides and how much fun they had. The real evidence that shows the volunteer staff enjoys their work is 5 of the guides form the ski day came to the ice arena on Tuesday where we had rented the rink to give the students an ice-skating experience. They took time form their day to show up and assist our staff with students and it was very helpful. This is not something you see happening every day and it is a testament to the volunteers in your adaptive sports program and the type of people they are.
On behalf of the students and staff I want to sincerely thank James and the volunteers for making this a memorable experience and for helping show the students they can do things that others say they are unable to do and that there are people out there that believe in their abilities.
Thank You Scott
Scott A. Vittner
Deputy Administrator, M.S., C.R.C
Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired
21 South Fruit St. Suite 20
Concord, NH 03301
P:603.271.3774
F:603.271.3816
Scott.A.Vittner@doe.nh.gov
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