A celebration was held last week for youth involved in Special Olympics in Weyburn.
Fundamentals is a program for children with intellectual disabilities that teaches basic sports fundamentals and skills. The event held at Weyburn Free Methodist Church on Thursday was a celebration for the youth finishing up the latest session.
"I'm always looking for more people to become involved in our program as athletes and as volunteers so if you know anyone aged two to 12 that would be interested in this program or a good fit for this program definitely reach out to me my email is hayley.wall93@gmail.com and my phone number is 306-774-5578," shared Coach Hayley Wall.
She said they also have an Active Start program for those ages two to six. The free sessions are 12 weeks long and held in the fall and winter.
MP Robert Kitchen attended the event, awarding the participants with certificates of achievement and participating in some games with the children.
"Hayley has done a tremendous job of getting this organization going and starting this up," said Kitchen. "The Special Olympics are tremendous. They provide opportunities for youth to learn physical activity, psychomotor skills, friendship, leadership skills, which are wonderful things for these kids to learn. And she's starting these things at a younger age and it's a building process to get it to this stage and it's just tremendous to see that."
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