Snowmobile club raises funds for prostrate cancer fight

Craig Bakay | Feb 14, 2018

The 4th annual Telus Ride For Dad raised about $8,000 for the fight against prostrate cancer Saturday at the Snow Road Snowmobile.

Awhile back, organizer Brandon Crain heard about a motorcycle Ride For Dad on the radio.

“I don’t have any personal connection to the fight against prostrate cancer, I just thought it would be a good thing to do,” he said. “It’s just a good reason to get out and ride.”

“He sucked me into it,” said co-organizer Shelby Knight.

The ride itself ran from the clubhouse, up to Wilbur, across to Dalhousie Lake, around through McDonalds Corners and back to the clubhouse for lunch.

“We were going to go to Lanark but there just isn’t enough snow on that part of the trail for this many machines,” Crain said. “You need at least two feet of snow and it didn’t have it.”

The run didn’t just include snowmobiles.

Although they couldn’t go on the trail in the their enclosed, heated 4x4, Bob Olmstead and Janet Rhyndress still managed to participate.

“We’ll ride the roads,” Olmstead said. “We’ve managed to get about $2,300 in pledges.”

Even those who didn’t get pledges managed to participate through the Slap-Down-a-$20 campaign.

If you’d still like to contribute, you can do so by calling Crain at 613-277-0092.