Our first Online information session

After acknowledging and admitting our 14 participants into the Zoom meeting I played Ole Kassow's introduction to Cycling Without Age, embedded below



Then after restarting the recording, I proceeded with the presentation. Acknowledgement to Kim Tan for his help in creating and editing the power point presentation to it's present format as well as creating a pdf of the slides.  

To jump ahead in the presentation, go to the description when viewing it in YouTube.


Here is the pdf of the presentation slides if you wish to view them




This is a list of the attendees


I have added some other videos below that aspiring pilots may find interesting.  

The first is Nancy Gray of Hamilton?Burlington CWA and Tammy Heidbuurt of New Hope for Bikes presenting their March information session and pilot recruitment Zoom meeting.


This is a Zoom information session held by Sandy Bishop of AA CWA for BikeAAA in Annapolis




This one is a local program interview with the founders of Lanark County CWA




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