Category Archives: Lessons – Leçons

Academy News – Jan 5, 2017

Hi All:

The sun is shining, the snow is down and groomed, lifts are running, it’s program time again…  now all I need is a melody…

Yup, it’s that time of year when the (local) world flocks to Camp Fortune to learn how to ski/board. And you know what that means – all instructors boots on boards, ready to teach.

For Saturday and Sunday, please be in the Pro for 8AM to pick up your ticket and meet with your supervisor – don’t worry if you don’t know who your supervisor is, you will meet him/her that morning.

After skiing ( on both days) we will be hosting a little fund-raising soiree in the Pro room at 4 PM. There will be pizza, beer and soft drinks available for a nominal fee (Pizza $2, Pop $1, Beer $5). The proceeds of this event go to the Norm Grondin Foundation – a foundation that helps ski/board Teaching Assistants to move up to the next level and take the CSIA or CASI Level 1 Course (for more information click here).

We are looking for people to work during the full-time period (Monday to Friday, 9 to 4) 2- 3 days a week. Interested people should contact the Cage at academy@campfortune.com or talk to Eric Trottier.

Th-th-thats all Folks…

Howard (subbing for the way-to-busy Frank)

Academy News – Jan 20, 15

Hello all,

Snowmaking up date:  we will have Canadian, the Chute and all of Clifford open for the weekend and the park as well. Weather should be good so we can look forward to a great turn out from our pupils.
Friday is a PD day so if you’re able we would be happy to see you at the hill, as we can expect more privates than usual. Please let the cage know if you can be there 819-827-1717 ext 2223
Sat and Sun Morning sessions are on, 8 am at the Clifford chair. Also I am running a skills development session this coming Monday evening, steering/separation will be the focus. Be in pro room by 630 we will be on snow 7 to 9.

I have a pair of Scott poles in my office(blue and black) someone took them by mistake and returned them.

And let’s not forget the food drive, please think of dropping off some non perishable food in the pro room. It’s a small thing and the Food bank is very appreciative of our efforts to help out.

All for now

Frank

Attention Snow Boarders

Hello all snowboarders!

Snowboard Instructors:
We will be drafting instructors into groups at 8:15 AM on Saturday and Sunday for the nine week program. If you want a chance to work programs on Saturday or Sunday, you must meet us with your green jacket at the back of the Pro Room at 8:15 AM. Even if you’re not assigned a program at 8:15 AM, please still come to the black flag at the beginning of every program as more students may show up and you may still have a chance of receiving an assignment for the season.

At the moment, there are more instructors requesting to work Saturdays than there are groups, and more groups than instructors requesting to work on Sundays. If you can be flexible with your day, you could have a better chance at being assigned a program.

Snowboard TAs:
Please meet Ashley in the back of the Pro Room at 8:30 AM with both your completed forms. Don’t forget, in order to complete all your hours, you are requested to be at the hill both Saturday and Sunday this weekend only.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Ashley at ashley.heideman@gmail.com.

Thanks and see you all this weekend,
Ezio and Ashley

Academy News – Dec 29, 15

Hello all,

Xmas programs going well , a big thank you to those that are participating in making it happen. Snow is finally here , snowmaking is producing and we can expect more terrain soon.
This coming weekend supervisors will be drafting our instructors into programs and creating their teams.
Lists with names and programs will be posted for the first day and supervisors will contact their crew via email the week prior to the program starting.
If you have friends not getting emails, tell them to go to our webpage and FOLLOW the blog.

Congratulations to all our new Level 1 instructors, glad to have you join the team.

All for now

Francois Bernier
Directeur, Services Sportifs/Director, Sport Services
Tel. 819-827-1717 poste 2204
Mob/cell 819-664-2471
Academy /website

Xmas Camp program

Hello all,

If any of you are available, we can use people to teach Monday 28th to Thursday 31st. AM and/or PM. If you are able to help please email me to confirm, fbernier@campfortune.com .

During the holidays we would like all to show up by 9 am, and thus be available to teach privates or groups.

A reminder to get all registrations complete prior to the 3rd of jan, in order to be on the list for the supervisors to draft into programs.

Hope everyone had a nice holiday, and that you’re all keen to teach, winter and the big show is about to begin.

All for now

Francois Bernier
Directeur, Services Sportifs/Director, Sport Services

Academy News – Dec 12, 15

Hello all,

All training is a go for this weekend, we expect everyone to be here by 9 am.

First Food Drive delivery was done this morning, we received a very big thank you from the people at the Aylmer food Bank. It’s a great thing we have begun and I hope to do another delivery next week. Thanks to all for your support on this. Let’s keep it going.
Box is ready to be filled again.
Our Top Ten priority items are:

– Peanut Butter
– Cereal and oatmeal
– Canned pasta
– Canned beans
– Salted cookies and crackers
– Canned fruits and vegetables
– Canned soups
– Dry pasta

We will be open Friday (Pinault only), Sat and Sun (Pinault and Meech). Snowmaking will resume as weather permits.

As we did last year we are looking for people to commit to a ‘ privates program’ these people will commit to ten weekends ( Saturday and/or Sunday). Customer service will book the lessons for these people. Please contact Maxine Colvey, privates coordinator, at maxine.colvey@gmail.com.   We will require 8 skiers and 1 snowboarder for this program.

All for now, see you on the weekend.

All for now,
Frank

Academy News

I would like to announce that Yolanda Gaiarsa will be stepping down from her role as Ski Wee supervisor. Yolanda has not come to this decision easily; she would like to focus on family life and tells me we will see her at the hill from time to time.
I would like to thank Yo for the twenty + years she has put into the school. As a member of the supervisor team she was instrumental in quite a few evolutions over the time, not the least of which was he collaboration in creating our instructors handbook.
I and our overall group will be losing a valuable player but this is the natural progression of things and I completely understand that the commitment required to supervise at some point becomes hard to balance against three kids growing and involved in other activities.
So Thank you Yolanda for all the time you gave us and look forward to sliding with you when you drop by to take a few runs with Andrew and the kids.

Frank