You're Invited To Our Slideshow

Join Scott Day and Terry Lipovski for a slideshow of their recent trip to Tanzania, including their climb if Africa's Highest Peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise donations for OHRI's Cancer Research, their visit with a semi-nomadic tribe of Maasai people, and their Safari in the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater!

The fun gets underway at 7PM on Wednesday June 6th at the Downtown Ottawa Library, Main Auditorium (120 Metcalfe St., Ottawa). It will be casual and admission is free so bring a friend and enjoy :-)

Hope to see you there!!

Scott & Terry

Thank You from the Kili4Cancer Team

As we're sure you will remember, we set a fairly ambitious goal a few months back, aiming to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa to raise money for Cancer Research. The idea was to raise $1 for every metre of the mountain. As the highest mountain on the African continent, "Kili" stands at 5,895 metres, so our fundraising goal was set at $5,895.

Before we even left Canada we realized just how difficult our fundraising goal was going to be. I recall telling Doreen, my Wife, that I wasn't sure we were going to make it in December as we only had a little over $1,000 raised by then. With a lot of help from her, my Parents, fellow climbers Scott Day and Jamie "Hamish" McVicar, I am very happy to say that were were able to reach our fundraising goal. In fact, we exceeded it, thanks to some extraordinary generosity from many wonderful people. We received 67 donations including 31 from Ontario, 22 from Alberta, 2 from the Belle Province, 2 from Texas and one each from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Utah and Alaska. You know who you are, but we would like to thank all you from the bottom of our hearts.

Many of you followed our Live Web-Log (Blog) at www.Kili4Cancer.com as we posted updates each day as we ascended this massive mountain. What we did not write in our Blog was that your donations provided the motivation and the positive pressure that we needed to reach the summit. After six days of climbing up higher and higher, we found that all our training and conditioning were being tested in a big way by the lack of oxygen above 15,000 feet. Every step was a major effort and we had to keep pausing after only a few steps to catch our breath in the rare air! I can say that for me, remembering all the donations and all the positive thoughts that we received from each of you, well, *that* is what kept me going on that last midnight push to the Roof Of Africa!

Our donations are now closed and our expedition is now safely back on Canadian soil. At this stage we would like to extend our most humble appreciation to each of you for your support and encouragement. We have posted a Slideshow of Photos to the bottom of our website at www.kili4cancer.com if you are interested in seeing more images from our climb or the Maasai Visit and Safari we took part in afterwards.

Thank you agin, very much, for helping us DO SOMETHING BIG!!!

Terry Lipovski, Jamie McVicar & Scott Day

- Kili4Cancer -

Donations Keep Coming...

Wow, while we were in Africa many of you were busy donating to our Cancer Research Fundraiser. So far you have pushed our total to $6,444.42 ( 109% of our goal of $1/metre climbed). This is fantastic and the news just keeps getting better, because we have talked to a few people who say that they still plan to donate in the coming days.

For this reason we have decided to keep the Donations Button "live" until the end of February, 2012. If you have been thinking of supporting this excellent initiative or if you know someone who might sleep more soundly knowing that they improved the world in a small way, then this extension is for you! Let's see if we can blow away our goal!!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED OR STILL PLANS TO DO SO!

Asante sana!

The journey of a thousand miles also ends with a single step; right now I'm on the Airport Shuttle back to Canmore on a balmy -7 Celsius bluebird day. A big shout out to Terry for conceiving and executing a trip of a lifetime. And thanks to all the friends and family for their support and encouragement! Don't know what Terry has cooking for next time, but I'm down for it. Over and out from Alberta. Jamie

Jamie McVicar
jamiemcvicar@shaw.ca
(403) 688-0988

Hoi Netherlands!

Back in Amsterdam...

It was great to get a Starbucks again, but I accidentally dumped my Grande Latte as I tried to plug my iPhone into a vacant electric socket. Now I am giggling as I watch tall Dutch ladies slip and slide their way to their departure gates. Ok, the Dutch guys are slipping too but they look ready to kill me so I don't giggle at them :-)

A 7 hour layover has begun, following which, Hamish is off to Calgary and Scott and I leave for Toronto. Once we are there we have some stick-handling to to to get our checked luggage out of the airport before they send it to Montreal. We hope to find a WestJet flight back from Hog-Town to O-Town late tonight.

P.S. I see that my lovely Elephant Video did not post correctly. I was afraid of this. I will repost it once I get home, ok?

Terry