It's not exactly the time of year for water sports but in Kelowna — one woman is doing a lot of paddling on Okanagan Lake this month. She's on a mission to paddle and row 365 kilometres and as Klaudia Van Emmerik reports, it's for a cause near and dear to her heart.“I actually have about 100 km left, so I’m in the home stretch,” Inglis said.
“This past summer, my cousin, who I was very close with, who was just a year older than me, he passed away,” she said.“He left behind a wife and a young son who is on the autism spectrum and one thing that he had been really passionate about was raising funds and awareness for autism. and he’d been very active at that.”
“Autism doesn’t just end. It’s something that’s a life-long journey for people and so I wanted to represent the 365 days a year that people on the spectrum are, you know, dealing with autism and also the families that care for them,” Inglis said.“Autism touches all of us. Everybody either knows someone … who is caring for a family member with autism or they themselves have it,” Inglis said.
“And so, next year I’m going to be creating this. It’s going to be building into a national-scale event where I’m going to have paddlers and rowers from across Canada be able to participate in this.”
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