Our event in 2007 was a success raising more than $20,000 for charity and worthwhile projects in the Waterloo Region.

Get your registration for 2008 completed and send it in to the Registration Desk.- ORGANIZE YOUR TEAM - CONTACT Bill LaRose (519) 897-4487, e-mail bill.larose@sympatico.ca

Here are the resources to help enlist your team.

Download a Poster and Sign-Up Sheet. Get Your Team Involved!
Print the Poster for your Bulletin Board - Large File 500K on Legal size paper - 8.5" X 14"

Download SignUp Sheet on Letter Size Paper - available in Acrobat PDF Format (500K) , , or Word Format(71K)

Get Registered for 2008.

Download Registration in PDF Format (219 K), or Rich Text (100 K), or Word (44 K)

THE FESTIVAL

Dragon Boat Racing

Crews of 20 paddlers paced by a drummer (required for every race) and guided by a steersperson, combine power, rhythm and synchronization to race a 40' canoe over a 500-m. watercourse. Dragon Boat racing - the ultimate team sport - rates high on the fun, fitness and friendship scales. It's visually spectacular and it also just plain "feels good" when you do it!

The Event

The Kiwanis Dragon Boat Festival will celebrate its eleventh year of operation this 2008 summer. In 2008 it will hosted the eighth Ontario College & University (Club Division) Provincial Dragon Boat Championships. The Championships have been integrated into the main festival schedule and are being staged as a featured event of the Festival.

Five college/university teams from 4 different universities participated  and 44 corporate/community teams competed in 2007 year's open event. Competitors, spectators and volunteers brought total attendance to more than 4000 people. This year the Festival expects to attract 70 teams to the event; 20 teams are expected in the College and University Championships.

In addition to the dragon boat races, the Festival features an interesting arts and crafts fair, clowns, buskers, a children's play area, an entertainment stage, a superb sound system, food and drink services, souvenirs, public beach and park access, overnight camping, and a whole lot more to add to your summer week-end.

Come join us! Be there!

THE ONTARIO COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY   PROVINCIAL DRAGON BOAT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Do You Want:

• To get involved in an exciting new team sport?

• To meet lots of new friends from across Ontario?

• To be associated with an outstanding cause?

• To represent your school in competition with other colleges & universities.

• To bring honor and glory and recognition to your school?

• To compete in front of thousands of spectators?

• To have a lot of fun in the sun?

• To support the Grand River Hospital to purchase Child Care equipment like prenatal incubators and basinettes?

• To support the New Woolwich Memorial Centre (Elmira Recreation Centre) to be built on the old Fairgrounds and Race Track property.

. . . Then get moving and enter a team in the  Annual College & University Provincial Dragon Boat Championships.

There is room for up to 20 teams in the College & University Championships next year. Every college and university in Ontario will be notified of the event and will be invited to participate. Initial response has been very positive and early registration is strongly encouraged. Applications are now being accepted 

Students, staff and faculty of the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Conestoga College are actively involved in the organization and promotion of these Championships in cooperation with the Kiwanis Club of Elmira. Their central objective is to make the Festival one of the biggest and best summertime events in Waterloo Region, as well as to have it become a major part of the summertime activity schedule across the campuses of all Ontario colleges and universities.

Come join us!