Gold Heather Gold

Hello readers and Olympic fans, once again I am dedicating my blog to Heather Moyse.

A track recond and four number one finishes in the Olympic bobsleigh competion.... led to a Golden evening last night.    Summerside's Heather Moyse and Calgary's Kaillie Humphries rocked it for Canada bringing home a Gold!!!  

With second place going to two other outstanding Canadian sledders, Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown in Canada 2.  Way to go ... last night the women were owning the podium :)  Yay, girls, love it!!!!

I'm sure all of us here and across Canada were sitting on the edge of our seats last night....letting out a huge hurray when she won.  She is a super athlete and truly deserving of gold for her sporting achievements. 

Everyone in the City of Summerside is just so thrilled for her and Summerside pride is alive and well today.

 

The front page of our local paper, big big news!!!!

Our building and scores of other local buildings and business owners got into the Olympic spirit posting signs of encouragement for our hometown girl.  We believed.....

At Moving Designz Home & Cottage our display window has been dressed for Olympic spirit since Day 1.  This is our version of the Olympic rings.... Olympic pillows :)  It seems this year our national pride and patriotism has been stronger than ever. 

Everyone has loved these games and are so proud of Vancouver and Vancouverites for these 2010 games.

I was thinking about women athletes last night after a day of women picking up all the swag/medals for Canada on Wonderful Wednesday.  Did you realize that 11 of our 15 medals so far have gone to women athletes? Congratulations to all of our female Olympians for their tremendous dedication and hard work.  This is an interesting article.  More on our women here...

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/parenting/archive/2010/02/24/own-the-podium-canada-s-women-still-might.aspx

To you, my blogger friends and  readers, who were also cheering her and her team mate on... thank you, thank you, thank you for all your wonderful emails and comments today. 

Thanks for reading.  Enjoy the final games!  I know I will.... check out my new profile pic :)
Susan

Olympic Spirit

With the Olympic games starting today I'm very proud to dedicate this post to our Olympic hometown hopeful and fellow blogger.

Meet Heather Moyse from Summerside.  Athlete extraordinaire... with an Olympic dream.

Heather is an amazing Canadian athlete.  She competes not only in bobsleigh but is also an accomplished Rugby player, and is a current member of both the Canadian National Senior Women's XV as a full back and the Canadian National Senior Women's 7's team. Wow! Go Heather.  She has her website at http://www.heathermoyse.net/

All of Summerside will be cheering her on as she and her race partner, Kaillie Humphries compete for gold in the 2 person bobsleigh race at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, Canada. 

Here is Heather lighting the caldron in a last December in Summerside during the Olympic Flame Relay Tour.  It's very fitting that she ran the torch into our small town during the flame event.  I was there that night and along with 3000 other attendees so very proud of her.

Heather is loved by lululemon and is one of several amazing athletes to grace their shopping bag during the holiday season.  This is what they had to say about her.  "Heather Moyse is a rugby player turned bobsledder who hails from Prince Edward Island. Besides her arms making us all incredibly jealous, Heather is amazingly dedicated athlete in multiple sports.

Our group of business owners, here at Harbour Terrace, are having this huge sign posted on the front of the building right outside the shop to show our support for Heather.  It was supposed to go up today but since it didn't I am showing our ad copy. 

Push for it Heather.  Best of luck with your competition.  Believe.

Thanks for reading.  Have a great weekend!

Susan