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Hello from Ottawa - The 26th Annual Bedz Races on Dow's Lake - Charity and Hilarity at the same time

When I was making my travel plans to Ottawa I
had a look at all the events that are part ofThe event was emceed by Max Keeping, a true
Winterlude, Ottawa's Winter Festival, andOttawa celebrity and respected community
there was one event that caught my attentionleader. Max is the evening anchor of the 6 pm
right away: the 26th Annual Bed Race at DowsOttawa News on CTV and I had a chance to talk
lake.After a nourishing breakfast at the Lordto him a little. Max is originally from
Elgin Hotel, Theresa and I laced up ourNewfoundland and has lived in the Ottawa area
skates and made our way on the longestfor many years and is very proud to promote
skating rink in the world, the 7.8 km longhis chosen home town. He welcomed the large
Rideau Canal Skateway, to Dows Lake, wheregroup of onlookers to the Bedzz Races by
the Bed Race was going to be held.A stage andreferring to Ottawa as "Every Canadian's
comfortable resting place for the judges ofsecond home town".We also had a chat about
the 26th Annual Bed RaceI looked for theWinterlude and that it is an amazing
organizers to get a bit more informationfestival. Rather than allowing people to
about this event and I was able to connectgripe about the long tough winter, it gets
with Steve Georgopoulos, one of the maineverybody out on the streets and on the canal
organizers from the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa,to party to celebrate the great things that
the organization that has been organizing thewinter has to offer.After the introductory
Bed Race for the last few years. Steve isremarks, the races got underway, with many
also the General Manager of the Les Suitesrounds of elimination to narrow down the
Hotel in Ottawa and has been instrumental infield to the eventual winners. There is no
getting this special event off the ground.Thedoubt that some of the beds weren't
motto of the Kiwanis International isconstructed for aerodynamics, as a matter of
"Serving the Children of the World", and theyfact, some of the contraptions seemed to
do this in a number of ways, from providingsomewhat disintegrate out on the
hands-on service to organizing fundraisingracetrack.The teams made a valiant effort to
events. Steve talked about the great sense ofpush the beds down the icy raceway, and
camaraderie that develops when people comedepending on the design of the wheels, some
together and donate their time to helpteams just flew down to the finish line,
others.Steve explained that the race has beenwhile others, particularly the ones with very
part of the Winterlude Festival for the pastsmall wheels, took their sweet time to reach
28 years. It was originally run by the Ottawathe finish.Steerability was another issue:
Hospital Foundation, and revived in 2003 bysome of the beds had a hard time staying on
the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa after the Icetrack and it was very prudent for the
Storm nixed the race in 2001, and a shortphotographers to get out of the way when
hiatus in 2002.This year the race will raisethese out-of-control vehicles came careening
approximately $50,000 and the 2006 proceedstoward the finish area. Some of the racers
will go to the Kiwanis Read-A-Thon. Thepushing the beds lost traction and were
Precious Minds Read-a-thon is an event thatsliding all over the frozen lake on their
is designed to encourage children to becomerear ends. At certain points I had a hard
better readers. And it does so by inspiringtime taking pictures because I was actually
them to read more often, try out new bookslaughing so hard. This wasn't helped by the
and  have  fun  while  they  are  doing  it.fact that I was the only reporter on skates
documenting this event. But skating is part
The Read-A-Thon is in its third year and theof the true Winterlude experience and I was
Kiwanis Club provides new books for librariesdefinitely  experiencing  the real thing.....
in various schools. So far 47 schools have
been included with a total of 17,000Well, a travel writer's job is never over: I
students. An estimated 100,000 books are tohad another event on my schedule - the Fire
be read.40 teams entered this year, and theyand Ice Culinary demonstrations at
came from a wide variety of organizations,Confederation Park. So much to my chagrin I
including the Ottawa Police, the Firehad to leave the bed race behind and make my
Fighters, 5 teams from the local Algonquinway back about 7 km on the Rideau Canal. I
College, a number of teams from local hotelsfound out later that the team from Apollo
such as the Lord Elgin Hotels, Les Suites andProperty Management had won the fundraising
teams from other local companies. Stevecompetition, while the International Union of
mentioned that there even is a family thatElevator Constructors - Local 96 was the
has entered the bed racing competition, 5fastest bed. The best decorated bed was won
cousins whose mothers are sisters with aby the Gordon Group, with Les Suites Hotel a
common grandfather. They entered for theclose second.All in all the bed race was a
first time last year to celebrate a familygreat event, the teams had fun, the audience
member's 80th birthday, just somethingsaw a great hilarious spectacle, and a good
special  to  do....chunk of money was raised for a great
cause.Susanne Pacher is the publisher of a
Of course there are very specific rules forwebsite called Travel and Transitions (
this event: the beds entered in theTravel and Transitions deals with
competition have to be no smaller than 1.8 munconventional travel and is chock full of
by 0.9 m (6 by 3 feet), and they have to haveadvice, tips, real life travel experiences,
a frame, head board and foot board. The frameinterviews with travellers and travel
must be made of metal for safety reasons.experts, insights and reflections,
Mattresses are not required, although thecross-cultural issues, contests and many
springs must be covered. And the bed must beother features. You will also find stories
on wheels, skis or skates are notabout life and the transitions that we face
acceptable.The teams can win in one of threeas we go through our own personal life-long
categories: speed, decor and fundraising. Ofjourneys.Submit your own travel stories in
course everybody wins since the proceeds ofour first travel story contest ( and have a
this event go to a great cause. The titlechance to win an amazing adventure cruise on
sponsor of the 2006 event is a company calledthe Amazon River."Life is a Journey Explore
Bedzzz, and the presenting sponsor isNew Horizons".
Allstream,  a  network  solutions  provider.



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