Adaptive Sports and Recreation and other disability services have a new haven

The Awesome Autumn Ability Fest 2016 will show a convergence of collaboration and regional pooling of resources to make immediate shifts in what the Lake Country will experience being available in social good.
This is all a result of two thing coming together from concurrently happening today Sunday Sept. 27th in Waukesha and Dodge Counties.     The Awesome Autumn Outing took place at Lapham Peak, and Red Roskopf Ability Fest took place in the Clubhouse of the Golf Club at Camelot in Lomira.     Red Roskopf Day collaborates with the Red Cross for a Blood Drive in Lomira in Honor and Memorial to Red Roskopf November 9th.     
The groups all circulating around these event and sponsoring and hosting them have come together to combine them together for an all new mega event that is designed to accumulate 180 people pledging to attend with condition on how their own personal calend will end up looking in the spring.     The event is scheduled based on the Packer schedule, so it is not known until spring which Sunday it is.    Red Roskopf Day has been on the latter Sundays in September, so far, so a guess would be to anticipate a selection of one of the last Sundays in September like that again.      If people's personal calendars remain open for the Sunday selected in spring, we would expect they would come and be a part of the Clubhouse Community Social.
The event will Celebrate 26 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act and at the same time Celebrate Community and Families.
Autism Solution Pieces, Snappin' Ministries, and Jesus Cares Ministries are the founding groups for the Awesome Autumn Ability Fest.
Please mark your calendars for these seasonal notes, and keep in touch with Kurt, Sue, and Alana Roskopf to opt into the updates and bulletins on these developments and determinations:       kurt@ada25mkenow.tk 262 7020 7031           http://facebook.com/roskopfs     

This all comes at the timing of the Rare Super Red Blood Harvest Moon Lunar Eclipse:    How cosmic?  !!  


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Benefits for supporting Autism Solution Pieces (ASP), Snappin' Ministries, and Jesus Cares Ministry

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Celebrating 25 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Communities and Families: Ability Fest - A Red Roskopf Day with Autism Solution Pieces.

For each $20 PAC Membership bought our company receives $10 back from PAC as a fundraiser.

Thank you in advance for supporting our PAC fundraiser,

Once you are ready to buy, click on the Buy Now button on the page with the link above. After checkout you will receive a welcome email within 24 hours or less which will include everything you need to get started.

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Follow-up to Adaptive Sports and Recreation survey

We all stand to gain some great insights from the EveryBODY Plays! efforts to get some collective results for our region.    

We are intending to reach those individuals that have a disability and are >18 year old as well as those that are the parent of a child with a disability 3-17 years old.

This is all about adaptive sports and recreation.   

I hope you will join me in getting this in mass distribution out to thousands to see this survey for the results we are looking for.

The Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is conducting the survey. 

http://www.lakecountrynow.com/opinion/blogs/communityblogs/329322821.html

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From Moriah of MCW:

I am happy to announce that we have 134 responses from adults with a disability, and 85 responses from parents of a child with a disability! However, this is only 25% of the responses we need.

We are asking our community partners again to promote the survey on their websites, Facebook pages, and anywhere else you think people would be able to access the survey. You can cut and paste the text below to include on your website or Facebook page:

“Please consider taking a short survey to give feedback about adaptive sports and recreation.

If you have a disability and are >18 year old follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PMRadult

If you are the parent of a child with a disability 3-17 years old follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PMRchild”

As a reminder, I have cards with the survey links on them if you would like some! We need about 1000 responses to get reliable results, so I would appreciate it if you could promote this as much as possible! If you have any questions feel free to email or call me!

Sincerely,

Moriah Iverson, MS

Program Manager

Research and Community Engagement

The Medical College of Wisconsin

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Phone (414) 805-7341

Fax (414) 805-7731

 

12th DisAbled Water Ski World Championships going on right now

Tune in right now online to see the world competitors of adaptive water skiing:

http://www.dwwsc.org/index.php/live-web-cast

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Travis Lukens recognized nationally for his Good Works

Meet Travis Lukens, a waterski enthusiast dedicating his time to helping people with disabilities feel accepted in a surprising location—on the water.

http://www.lakecountrynow.com/opinion/blogs/communityblogs/328906611.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFEhcnHKkBU

Meet the Ford F-150 owner helping turn limitations into almost limitless fun. Water skiing enthusiast Travis has...
Posted by Ford Trucks on Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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Share the Legacy with others

Ability Fest Continues
Celebrating Communities and Families and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
A Red Roskopf Day
Sunday, Sept. 27th, 2015
7 AM to 7 PM
Clubhouse of The Golf Club at Camelot
W192 Hwy 67 Lomira WI 53048
(This is a day in history you are not going to want to miss!)
EveryBODY's Doin' It!!
This is a free event if you don't want food from the event and you don't want to golf.
Our primary support is going to Autism Solutions Pieces (ASP) http://www.autismsolutionpieces.com/
We also are showing through is event great support and charity to the Lynzay Legois Legacy (The Lynzay Legois Memorial)  http://www.lynzay.org/
Snappin' Ministries http://www.snappin.org
Jesus' Cares Ministries http://www.tlha.org/jesus-cares-ministries/
United forces for fun and awareness
Concurrently taking place at the same time as the Awesome Autumn Outing which will culminate with Ability Fest to bring us Awesome Autumn Ability Fest for 2016.
We share our role in the Milwaukee Area Time Exchange.
If you would like to enjoy the buffet set up by Camelot for this event, please send in $12 for each 13 and older, $6 for each 5 to 12, and kids 4 and under eat free, but please give us a complete count for all expecting food.  
18 holes with golf car(t)... $29
9 holes with golf car(t)...  $22
Please submit names of all golfers
We need this all in to us by Saturday Sept. 26th:   N79 W22125 Bramble Drive Lisbon WI 53089 
No purchase necessary to participate in this event.   Come one, come all, and enjoy great fellowship and fun with others from our community of Wisconsin and beyond.   
Golf format organized with this event is 4-person scramble, shotgun, prizes, flag events (9 holers go on tee time assignments - no shotgun)
Receive two raffle tickets for every non-perishable food item brought in for our group donation to the Lomira Food Pantry
Engage with a variety of vendors, exhibitors, providers, groups, resources, and so forth as part of our community expo.     Those with a business, charity, consumer items, service, product, or whatever to share with our group, please bring what you have.   If you would like a table set up for you, please remit $10 to The Golf Club at Camelot through Kurt Roskopf kurt@ada25mkenow.tk 262 720 7031 .   Please bring a raffle item if possible.          Let Kurt know what you are bringing please.
8’ table, skirting, chairs, electricity
Live Music provided by Jane Fraundorf

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http://www.snappin.org/  

What a great season again for adaptive water skiing!

I would like to give a great big thank you and kudos to the following for being a huge part of making adaptive water skiing a thriving experience:

Travis and Emilie Lukens with the Jaworski family and other friends and family that make-up Colsac Skiers Adaptive Ski School  http://colsacskiers.com

Adaptive Adventures with Linda "LT" Tomsevics http://adaptiveadventures.org

Jeremy Armstrong, Shauna Pasanen, and Bob, Dianne, and Sara Kasper of On The Edge Children's Foundation    Jeremy and Shauna also pursue this additionally with their roles in the Tommy Bartlett Water Ski Show and Absolute Aqua Sports http://tommybartlett.com/   http://absoluteaquasports.com

Susan Richey [the Queen of adaptive water skiing] and the great members of the Aquanut Water Ski Show Team of Twin Lakes http://aquanutwatershows.com/

Ann O'Brine Satterfield leading the world of adaptive water skiing through U Can Ski 2 of Florida http://www.ucanski2.com

Brina Trapp making the Northwoods Adaptive Water Ski program possible:  https://www.facebook.com/NorthwoodsAdaptiveSkiing.

Jeff Lee, Jon Mohr, and Chad Murphy-Price for leading the way in integrating diverse ability water skiers into water ski shows.    http://plwsc.org/                   A great datta girl to Joyce Shepet for giving me the idea a few years ago to even reach out beyond Pewaukee for what I thought possible for adaptive water skiing.     25 Year Celebration on doing adaptive water skiing with Adaptive Community Approach Program (ACAP)    http://acap-waukesha.org/

Chris Coupland, Michelle Meike, and Joel Shapiro of the Wisconsin Water Ski Federation.    Without you three, I would not have been able to been nearly as effective nor would this have all happened as it has in the last few years.       Thanks for being the rock of WWSF along with the other officers and committee volunteers.          http://waterski.org

The late Lynzay Legois (deceased):   The spirit she put into show skiing and life is a driving force for me today.      Thank you Rick and Denice Legois for welcoming me into the legacy of your family.       http://www.lynzay.org/

Dave Passehl with the Shawano Ski Sharks http://shawanoskisharks.org/

Eric and Shelly Murphy of the Waterboard Warriors (including Green Bay)   http://waterboardwarriors.org/

Matt Weber and Rich and Ally LaFave with the Eau Claire Ski Sprites http://www.skisprites.com

Barb, Steve, and their Dittrich kids with Snappin' Ministries http://snappin.org

Tom Stebbins with the Beaver Dam Beaverland Must-Skis    http://www.mustskis.com/

Tina Strobel with WWSF and family and friends with the Shermalot Ski Show team   http://www.shermalotskiteam.com

Carol Schlintz and Roger Longren of MindWorks Photography   http://mindworksphotography.com

The Brown's Lake Aquaducks http://www.aquaducks.org/ with Rick and Denice Legois, Scott Limberg, Carmen Daniels, Jordan Asche Karweik, Krystin May, Jillian Matoska, and Hanna Laux.      A great thanks to Chris Simonds and his mom Lisa for being so gracious and generous as host and hostess.      Featured acknowledgement goes to Joey Matoska our very own returning water skier!   Congratulations Joe .

Jessica Meike with her awesome work with Lauderdale Lakes Aqua Skiers and Lakeland School.   They teamed up with Minneiska, Twin Lakes, and Wausau to give our best to the project.  http://www.aquaskiers.com/

Kathy Mohar formerly of IndependenceFirst with the Okauchee Lake program https://www.independencefirst.org

Dave Kwasny with Pewaukee Lake Water Ski Club many many year ago and now with Fishing Has No Boundaries http://www.fhnbmilwaukee.com/

Peggy Moriarty of the Muskego Water Bugs http://www.waterbugs.org/   Way to go Dennis and Adam!

Eric Gran and Jason Hook of the Big Pull    https://www.facebook.com/EvinrudeWorldRecordHumanPyramid

Maggie Muleski and the crew from the Wisconsin Rapids Aqua Skiers - our epicenter for adaptive water skiing    http://www.aquaskiers.org/

Madison School and Community Recreation Program (MSCR) with Chad Thom   http://mscr.org/

The MadCity Ski Team  http://www.madcityskiteam.com/

The Rock Aqua Jays http://www.rockaquajays.com/      Their hosting the National Tournament in alternating years is a catalyst to what we see today.

Jon and Pete Wade with their Wade Werx http://wadewerx.com/ production of sit skis.   

Jon & Jody Speckeen with their Custom Show Boards http://custom-show-boards.com/ production of a wood base ski for sit skis.     

Steve Kling, Orrin Beggs, and Duayne Beggs of the Rockford Ski Broncs   http://www.skibroncs.com/           Way to go Pearl Gannon Ms. Wheelchair Illinois.       Welcome back to water skiing Amber Rangel.

Badgerland for being the team that came through for the boat needed a few years ago at Law Park to get me personally starting bringing this water ski community together around adaptive water skiing.    http://www.badgerland.org/

Central Wisconsin Water Ski Show Team   cwwaterwalkers.org  for sending us members of your team like a boat driver to participate in adaptive water skiing and skiers otherwise.  

Jim Martin of Badwater Ski-Ters for cluing me into their history on adaptive water skiing.    
www.badwaterski-ters.org

Crivitz Ski Cats has particular stories in including people with disabilities http://www.crivitzskicats.org/  

Volunteers and skiers of LaCrosse and Baraboo   rivercitywaterski.org 

Brad Belcher and Shannon Larsen of the Ski Dox http://skidox.com   for  bringing us into the Midwest Ski Together.

Karen Putz for being a constant source of support and encouragement on the adaptive water ski efforts   http://karenputz.com 

UW-Milwaukee and Wisconsin Association of the Deaf (WAD) http://wisdeaf.org/  for helping me make possible the interpreter program for water ski shows as launched with the Pewaukee Lake Water Ski Shows.    http://uwm.edu

Carroll University and Marquette University for their interest, volunteerism, and support to adaptive water skiing                  http://marquette.edu/            http://www.carrollu.edu/



This has all brought adaptive water skiing as I personally found it to be for my purposes in 5 communities 5 years ago to now more than 25:

Pewaukee
Oconomowoc
Muskego
Burlington
Mukwonago
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Rapids
Twin Lakes
Elkhorn
LaCrosse
Eau Claire
Crivitz
Shawano
Green Bay
Madison
Okauchee
Minocqua
Plum Lake
Nekoosa
Dells
Wrightstown
Rockford
Rochester
Merrimac - Lake Wisconsin
Spread Eagle
Janesville


This is a great celebration of the ADA Legacy:   25 Years of the Americans with Disabilities Act = ADA25

A huge thank you to the few thousand people the represent this vibrant water ski community and the 10s of thousand the represent the zeal and appeal for this family-friendly family-oriented pastime, recreation, sports, and leisure giving us Wisconsin as the Show Ski Capital of the World.

A ski salute to all of you.

A September to Remember

There are a bunch of these things in the initial 12 days of September that provide for a remarkable thrust forward for adaptive water skiing and adaptive sports in general.   It is like the 12 days of Christmas, but it is only September.

Adaptive water skiing has found its place with both the Browns Lake Aquaducks' and the Pewaukee Lake Water Ski Club's water ski shows.   This provided a great integration over Labor Day weekend.   Wednesday September 9th (9-9) was a marvelous day at Fischer Park Browns Lake Burlington with a half of a dozen guest got to use a sit ski for their water skiing experience.   The approach of adaptive water skiing has been providing an all-inclusive approach making water skiing available to EveryBODY!!

Friday Sept. 11th is the Lauderdale Lakes Aqua Skiers project collaborating with Minneiska Ski Show Team, and water skiers from Wausau.     Rick Legois of the Browns Lake Aquaducks and Lynzay Legois Memorial will also be there to provide boat power and supply the Joski Ski adaptive water ski.      It is an all abilities learn to ski morning from 9-11:30 and then by 1 PM there will be an exhibition water ski show for the enriching experience to the Lakeland School student, faculty, and staff.     Ms. Wheelchair Illinois traveled from Illinois on Wednesday to make the Fischer Park event as well as the Lutherdale Bible Camp event with Aqua Skiers and Lakeland School in Elkhorn.

We are getting a lot of attention from press in Wisconsin Rapids, Racine County, and otherwise in Wisconsin.    USA Today has picked up on these dynamics through Gannett Co., Inc.

Saturday September 12th is the Scott Coley Memorial Open will be hosting adaptive water skier Autumn Neugent of the Colsac Skiers Adaptive Ski School.   

Thank you to the Lynzay Legois Free Water Skiing Club and Colsac Skiers Adaptive Ski School for making these things possible.

Autumn Neugent takes adaptive water skiing to Tommy Bartlett Show site

A great community service by water skiers around Wisconsin

Check out the recap on the great day 9/9

The Legacy of Lynzay Legois

  USA Today shows how Sarah Holm is a shining example

Check out this article & video about my adventures with Colsac Skiers on USA TODAY!
Posted by Sarah Holm on Thursday, September 10, 2015

Sign Language Interpreters at Water Ski Show in Pewaukee

Sign Language Interpreters will be at the Water Ski Show in Pewaukee tonight August 27th, 2015 (8/27/15) Thursday 6 PM.    Chad Murphy-Price will be on the sit ski at 6 PM to start off the night.
http://plwsc.org The Pewaukee Lake Water Ski Club Home Page

complete with Sign Language Interpreter
Live from Pewaukee, It's Thursday Nite:    Thursday Night Live
Thursday August 27th
6:30 Show Time
Chad on the sit ski at 6 PM
Pewaukee Lakefront Park 222 West Wisconsin Avenue
You may want to arrive between 5:45 and 6 PM for a more relaxed entry to the show area.          Please bring your own chair or seating comfort.
Please RSVP to kurt@waterski.org             262-720-7031
Attendance without notice is always welcome as well.     This is an open to the public event, so please feel free to pass this on to everyone you know.     
http://plwsc.org/
http://www.facebook.com/PLWSC

http://www.lakecountrynow.com/opinion/blogs/communityblogs/323133291.html Kurt's overview of the Interpreter Program for at Pewaukee Lake Water Ski Shows

http://www.lakecountrynow.com/news/lakecountryreporter/321030481.html Great article on Deaf and Hard of Hearing attending shows in Pewaukee now thanks to Sign Language Interpreters

Kurt Roskopf, Vice-President of the Lynzay Legois Memorial Free Water Ski Lessons Club Free Ski Lessons In Memory of Lynzay Maire Legois

was featured on AM 1320 of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin with Morning Magazine with Carl Hilke.

10 AM to 10:30 AM Thursday July 16th. The primary focus is the offer for persons with disabilities to contact the Water Ski Lessons Club for adaptive water skiing.    We had an event Friday July 17th through Sunday July 19th: kurt@lynzay.org http://lynzay.org https://www.facebook.com/events/481824545309299/

Listen Live:

 http://www.wfhr.com/player/listen.html
http://209.94.170.250:8000/amstream.mp3
AM 1320

For the archive of Carl interviewing Kurt, please go to http://209.94.170.250/Morning_Mag/dirLIST_files/download.php?file=Li9Nb3JuaW5nX01hZ2F6aW5lXzA3LTE2LTIwMTVfUGFydF8xLm1wMw%3D%3D

Click here to listen to the conversation between Kurt and Carl. 

 

Experience the Joski Ski - sit ski
Fun tow by the Pony Boat
Free Water Skiing for People with Disabilities
Calling all Diverse Ability Athletes and otherwise of all abilities that may have an interest to try water skiing
Friday July 17th, Saturday July 18th, and Sunday July 19th
Running concurrently at the same time as the Wisconsin State Show Ski Tournament at Lake Wazeecha (Wisconsin Rapids)
Please contact Kurt Roskopf if you have any thoughts that you might possibly be interested in this in any way shape or form:    262-720-7031
kurt@lynzay.org
We are flexible for most anytime Friday 7/17 and Sunday 7/19 as well as Saturday afternoon 7/18 P.M.
Arrangement are on an appointment basis, so please just let us know what time you prefer.

http://lynzay.org

Wednesdays on Water: W.O.W.!! Adaptive Water Skiing for People with Disabilities.... FREE

Free Water Skiing
Adaptive Water Skiing for People with Disabilities
Sit Ski available for seated water skiing
Wednesdays On Water (W.O.W.) !!
Three Fun Dates for 2015:     July 29th, August 19th 2 PM to 5:30
Season Finale September 9th 2 PM to sunset


Fischer Park
30326 - 30400 Durand Ave
Burlington, WI 53105

All inquiries and advanced registrations with Kurt Roskopf 262-720-7031 lynzay.org@gmail.com 

http://lynzay.org

Check out our scheduled dates and times and contact us to plan your ski session

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Interpreters at water ski shows at Pewaukee Lakefront Park every Thursday now until Labor Day for sign language.

Friday June 26th

Browns Lake

Adaptive Water Skiing

10 AM to 2 PM

Facebook Event posting

Thank you to the Free Ski Lessons In Memory of Lynzay Maire Legois for coordinating the day and donating the tow boat set-up for a great opportunity for a few to get out and use the sit ski.

If you know anyone that uses a wheelchair or otherwise would benefit from using a sit ski for a water ski experience, please let us know: 262-720-7031 kurt@sitski.tk We are thinking that we might possibly have up to 5 adaptive water skiers going that day, so it will be a nice enjoyable session.

Once we have participants registered, we will confirm it with the location details for meeting up with us for the time on the sit ski.

 

Sign Language Interpreters at Water Ski Shows in Pewaukee on Thursday Nights

complete with Sign Language Interpreter

Live from Pewaukee, It's Thursday Nite:    Thursday Night Live

Thursdays May 28th and June 4th

6:45 PM Show time

Pewaukee Lakefront Park 222 West Wisconsin Avenue

You may want to arrive between 6:15 and 6:30 for a more relaxed entry to the show area.          Please bring your own chair or seating comfort.

Please RSVP to kurt@waterski.org             262-720-7031

Attendance without notice is always welcome as well.     This is an open to the public event, so please feel free to pass this on to everyone you know.       

http://plwsc.org/

http://www.facebook.com/PLWSC   

Introduction and Instructor Training for
Adaptive Water Skiing

host site by Shawano Ski Sharks
211 Riverside Dr, Shawano, WI 54166

Lead Trainer - Travis Lukens (founder Colsac Skiers & WWSF Disabled Division Director)

10 AM to 4 PM
Lunch provided

We welcome people with disabilities to inquire if we have room in our plans for 10 skiers with disabilities to get in the water.    If you don't make that list, you are welcome to come for the land experience and to cheer on those that do get in the water.
This is the first chance of the year for people interested in learning how adaptive water skiing is provided to learn from our experienced side skiers and coordinators of adaptive water skiing.
The public is welcome, so please pass this information around.
Those interested to participate as a student with a disability to water ski and those wanting to get this instruction on how to provide water skiing for those that have a disability, please email tlukens@me.com
Please do let us know if you plan on coming and if we can plan on you enjoying the food and drinks with us.
Walk-ins welcome, but please be patient as we complete our arrangements and activities for those that have registered in advance.

Facebook Event posting for Shawano Saturday June 6th