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Anne Bethune, President Anne has been involved with the Disabled Skiers Association for over 20 years and began her role as VASS President at the 2005 AGM. She is a CADS Level III Examiner, sits on our Provincial Technical Committee and is runs Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing instructor training courses throughout BC.
Her professional career as an occupational therapist combined with years of working as a ski instructor make her uniquely qualified to teach adaptive skiing. Anne is involved as an International Paralympic Committee classifier trainee for disabled alpine ski racing, works for Vancouver Coastal Health Authority and Grouse Mountain Resorts Ltd. She is often seen racing her three boys down the slopes.
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Patrick Stafford-Smith,Vice President Patrick is a Level 2A CADS instructor and has volunteered with VASS for the past 11 years, including 6 years volunteering and 4 years Past President at a provincial level with DSABC.
Patrick brings strategic business and marketing management experience to the board; having worked in a number of BC based industrial firms including Chevron, BC Hydro, and PGL.
As an avid downhill skier, snowboarder and cross country skier, Patrick brings a love and enthusiasm for winter sports to VASS.
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Trevor Skutezky, Director at Large Trevor is an active member of the adaptive sports community in Vancouver, with 5 years experience working with the Disabled Sailing Association (DSA) and more recently, adaptive kayaking. Trevor joined VASS in 2009-2010 as a volunteer instructor and works in the community to draw new faces into VASS programs.
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Sandy Millar, Director at Large Sandy is a Client Executive with Marsh Canada, where he manages insurance and risk management programs for clients, mostly within sports and non-profit sectors. As a Level IV CSIA course conductor and Level II CSCF member, Sandy comes to VASS with over 25 years of ski industry experience. His volunteer experience includes serving three terms as a director of CSIA-BC, with two terms as Chair. When not skiing with his two young children, Sandy is also an avid rugby player, cyclist and musician. |
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Ken Ross, Director at Large Ken has been teaching adaptive skiing for 11 years, having volunteered for adaptive programs in London and Toronto, Ontario, and Whistler and at VASS in BC. He has also previously served on the Boards of Directors for DSABC and the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program and gets almost as much personal reward from helping these organizations grow and prosper as he does from helping individuals on the hill learn and grow through alpine skiing. Ken received his CADS Level 2 and 2A certifications in 2006 and 2007 respectively, and his Level 3, Examiner certification at the 2009 CADS Festival at Sun Peaks. |
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Mark Jackson, Director at Large and Secretary Mark joined the VASS Board of Directors through the Volunteer Vancouver Board Match services. In his first year with VASS he is responsible for Public Relations and Marketing and works closely with, Kay Fulford, the Director of Fundraising to maintain and build our relationships with key VASS sponsors and supporters.When not working on VASS related initiatives or skiing, Mark is the Managing Director, Western Region for Hay Group Limited, a global organizational and human resources consulting firm. |
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David Blaiklock, Treasurer |
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Liisa O’Hara, Director at Large Liisa has been volunteering with VASS for 9 years, first as a ski instructor and is now in her third year as Administrative Coordinator of the Wednesday night program. She has been skiing since she was 3 years old and loves being able to provide the opportunity for others to enjoy the love of skiing. When not on the hill, Liisa works as a Senior Marketing Manager at TELUS and enjoys living on the North Shore with her husband and dog. |
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Dan Moscrip, Director at Large Dan is a CADS level 2 instructor. He works with Liisa coordinating the amazing Wednesday evening program on Grouse Mountain. Recently, Dan has been doing Media Relations work for VASS to get awareness of the awesome skiers and fantastic accomplishments of the organization into the media. His background is in Television, where he was a Senior Producer/Director for Knowledge Network. He volunteer his winters as a ski instructor with VASS and summers doing adaptive Kayaking. |
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Mark Potter, Director at Large Mark participated in the Vass Cup Event in 2O1O and then became a volunteer ski instructor in 2O11. When not sharing his love for skiing with others he runs a commercial mechanical company in Vancouver. |
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Tom Mooney, Director at LargeTom has been hanging around VASS for the last few years and received his CADS level 1 last year and will be working on CADS Level 2 next season. One of Tom’s three daughters has been a VASS student with the Saturday morning program for 12 years. Tom and his family have been involved in various areas of inclusion and advocacy for the past 25 years. Tom is a technician with NCR Canada, and plays third clarinet with the North Vancouver Community Band.
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