Category Archives: What’s New

Hi! for everyone that has expressed interest and for the returning skiers: here we go!

Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits online registration is now open:

Please go to this link: https://zone4.ca/reg.asp?id=13520

We look forward to seeing your skiers, and you, in the near future.  Keep following this site for more details!

Coach Ihor

The weather is perfect for our party!

APJ families:  Join us tomorrow afternoon at the Tuxedo Community Centre (skate building) for a potluck, outdoor games (frisbee, soccer, playground), photos, and your free CCC toque.

Sign up on the PerfectPotluck schedule and bring your favourite food to share.

PerfectPotluck.com :  Locate the schedule under “FIND” (type: Unger) and use the password APJ2016.  Write your family’s name under a category.  All details are there, including a map to TCC.

Contact the coaches with any questions.

Sunday May 1, 2016 – 12:45 p.m.

Next Sunday we’re winding up our year together as a ski club.  It’s a potluck lunch which usually means lots of good food!

Please visit the PerfectPotluck website (PerfectPotluck.com), locate the schedule under “FIND” using my last name (Unger) and the password (APJ2016).  Then write your family’s name under a category.  All details are there, including a map.

We look forward to seeing lots of APJ club families on May 1st to:

• celebrate a great season together!
• indulge in our annual potluck lunch!
• enjoy games!
• get a free CCC specially designed toque!
• pick up your Stafford Studios photos!

Just over a week ago, a small group from APJ attended the CCSAM awards night.  While it was a terrific night to meet a wide variety of Manitoba skiers, celebrate accomplishments, and enjoy a wonderful dinner together, it was especially exciting to hear the surprise announcement that Assiniboine Park Jackrabbits was nominated as “Club of the Year”!

Coach Ihor, who initiated our club, was once a participant, back in the day.  Said of Ihor that evening, “Here he is, 40 years later, passing along the love of cross-country skiing in Manitoba. Now that is dedication and loyalty.”

In fact, it was announced that child-skier-Ihor was part of the very first Jackrabbit ski club in Canada – and that club originated right here in Winnipeg! (see Ihor’s bio)

Now that’s something to celebrate.

Coaches Yan, Ihor, Jeff and Katherine with trophy “Club of the Year”

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE:

* APJ Wind-Up Potluck – NEW DATE:  Sunday May 1, 2016 – 1:00-3:30 pm *

We are changing the date of our wind-up potluck to May 1st, 2016.  Same time, same place, just a different date.  Mark your calendars as you won’t want to miss out on all the fun that afternoon! 

Please visit the PerfectPotluck website (PerfectPotluck.com), locate the schedule under “FIND” using my last name (Unger) and the password (APJ2016).  Then write your family’s name under a category.  All details are there, including a map.

We look forward to seeing lots of APJ club families on May 1st to:

• celebrate a great season together!
• indulge in our annual potluck lunch!
• enjoy games!
• get a free CCC specially designed toque!
• pick up your Stafford Studios photos!
  

You might have already received an email via the Perfect Potluck website with regard to the upcoming lunch that winds up our fantastic ski season.  If not, consider this post your official invitation!

APJ Wind-Up Potluck – Sunday April 10, 2016 – 1:00-3:30 pm

All APJ families are invited to attend this event, regardless of the number of times you actually made it out this past season.  We won’t judge.

Please visit the PerfectPotluck website (PerfectPotluck.com), locate the schedule under “FIND” using my last name (Unger) and the password (APJ2016).  Then write your family’s name under a category.  All details are there, including a map.

Please mark your calendars and decide which of your favourite food item(s) you will bring.  We look forward to seeing you in April!

Since it went back to winter again this week, it should at least put you in the mood to think about skiing, even if we can’t actually do it.

Tomorrow, Sunday March 20, 2016, is the deadline for nominations for the 2015-2016 CCSAM Annual Awards.  It’s very simple.  Just think of people in our ski community to nominate… and let CCSAM know about them!  They deserve some recognition.

Here is the link.  Below is the form.   (NOTE:  You must actually use the link to submit your votes.)

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Good-bye Winter…welcome Spring!  As far as I can tell, unless you want to don water-skis, our APJ season has come to an abrupt end and we will not meet at the park today.  Enjoy the warm weather!

Anyone feel like water-skiing instead?!  This is the same location as our Cookie Sprint Off race 3 weeks ago! (Assiniboine Park – March 13, 2016)

Windsor Park Nordic Centre also closed its doors last week, saying a sudden good-bye to a great season of skiing.  (Note that there are many lost and found items at Windsor Park and you can still stop by to pick things up if you left them behind.  Please phone ahead as their opening hours are much shorter now.)

APJ will be having our annual WIND-UP POTLUCK LUNCH… Sunday April 10.  Look for upcoming posts with details of this wind-up to officially close our awesome season together.

This past week has been more than exciting for our APJ group with record-breaking numbers out for two different events!

Last Thursday we had ten of our APJ skiers show up for the annual “Dash for Cash” event at Windsor Park.  (see photo page)  What a great night!  Thanks, Coach Jeff and Downtown Nordic leader, Steve Scoles, for heading that up again this year.  Thanks also to the large number of volunteers who made Dash for Cash possible.  It was not only a fun event for the kids to race for loonies (both real and chocolate), but great fun for the spectators to witness such incredible talent in these young skiers!

Coach Jeff McMillan & Steve Scoles – Dash for Cash event organizers

Then, this past Sunday we had another record number of APJ families out for our annual excursion to Falcon Ridge Ski Resort.  With balmy +8℃ temperatures, we were skiing in single layers, tank tops, t-shirts, etc… and eating our lunch outdoors.   (When was the last time you heard a complaint of being too hot during cross-country-skiing in Manitoba?!)  Of course, we had to round out the day with some tubing… and suntanning.  Thanks to everyone who showed up with smiles on for a great time together!

largest APJ group at Falcon – March 6, 2016 (plus 2 more families showed up later!)

tubing fun after skiing

Sunday! March 6!

Falcon Trails Resort at the end of the south shore road of Falcon Lake: there will be warm snow and a lot of it!  Google Falcon Trails for a map and great resort stories.

Please set up to arrive  for skiing at 11:00 am.  APJ big group ski will launch then.

There is a very satisfying cafeteria there or bring a lunch and a guitar or mandolin as this is promoted there. After lunch, strap on a helmet and have an absolute scream on a “not a lot of parental supervision required” inner tube slide, or keep skiing!

It’s a provincial park so remember to bring your park pass for the mini van.

Driving time from Assiniboine Park is 1:45,

See you there,

Coach Ihor