Special Olympics Provincial Spring Games banners will fly on Wyndham Street and Gordon Street in the city’s core. The banners are part of the lead-up to the May 26-28 games being held in Guelph at a number of venues.
The banners are a partnership between Special Olympics Ontario, the City of Guelph, Downtown Guelph Business Association, and the University of Guelph.
The pictures of over 50 Guelph athletes will be featured on the banners, each person selected randomly from a host of local Special Olympics sports teams. Guelph photographer Dean Palmer captured the images, which highlight the many sports participated in my intellectually disabled children and adults locally.
The banners also celebrate and promote the Provincial Spring Games, which will attract over 1,000 athletes and coaches from all over Ontario, with teams participating in the sports of basketball, swimming, bowling, powerlifting and rhythmic gymnastics.
In a Downtown Guelph press release, Const. Chris Probst of the Guelph Police, the manager of the games, said the banners are an example of the broad community collaboration that is happening in preparation for the games.
“Our local Special Olympics athletes have been given the chance to shine and to welcome the province to the 2016 Spring Games,” he said. “It's fantastic.”
