This Friday is the last day to donate your Gently Used Sporting Equipment to the Children in need this Holiday season.
Some of you have already made a donation, some of you are looking for items to donate around your house, and for those minutes invested in finding those items I, and MINI Deeds, Thank You!
Remember that for every item that you donate, your name gets entered into a Draw to win a $1,000 Shopping Spree at CrossIron Mills Mall! These items will help make the lives of young Calgarians in need that much brighter this holiday season!
This Friday, we'll be at SportChek in the Crowfoot Shopping Centre in the NW between 1 and 4 pm collecting your donations.
MINI Deeds, an All4 All-Wheel Drive MINI Countryman Perfect for the Calgary Winter Weather, can hold a lot of items and is our goal to Stuff it to the point that I have to put items on my co-pilot's seat!
There’s a lot to be grateful for if you’re driving a modern MINI. Thanks to the electronic assistance systems, driving really is safer and more relaxed nowadays. For example, when a big rock suddenly tumbles into your way, right in the middle of the curve, do you brake? Of course, instinctively. But what if the distance is much too short to fully stop in time? No need to worry — the antilock brake system maintains unflappable control and applies maximum braking in the MINI. In the process you only feel a slight vibration under the sole of your right foot. Evasive maneuver? You might be more likely to tear out the steering wheel from fear. After all, everything happens within the fraction of a second. Out of the corner of your eye you might still see the DSC lamp in the display briefly flicker, but by that time, the dangerous situation has already passed and the MINI has rolled on to safety. The short activity of the stability control system has prevented worse things from happening. After an experience like that, you can roll along unharmed to the next parking lot and tend to some important needs — like breathing deeply.
Some say the old days were better. But after the initial moment of shock, this statement has to be rethought considering the life-saving technology of your car. How would the whole thing have been run through in a less modern vehicle? Differently. While in today's cars the electronic assistants quietly do their job, on classic cars without electronics it depends a lot more on the abilities of the guy or gal behind the wheel. Situations have to be assessed in the blink of an eye and the appropriate action taken. Otherwise, there lies threat of disaster. Does this mean that driving a Classic Mini is dangerous? Of course not. You should just carefully test your own abilities behind the wheel and then practice, practice, practice. Carefree driving fun comes with good experience.
Where to practice carefree exploration of the limits of the driver and the vehicle without a net? Where in the world can you get an opportunity to make a controlled error without having to pay the consequences with your own MINI… or worse — your health?
At MINI! Following the success of the first Classic Mini driver training courses last year, the MINI Clubs International Office has done it again by adding a course for advanced drivers. Here participants are playfully introduced to these kinds of situations at high speed with their own classic Mini. And that looks like this:
And since no one can expect to get it right the first time, the participants are not kept on a short leash during the spectacular exercises, but instead are provided with excellent advice by experienced instructors on how to stay on track even without modern assistance systems.
Interested? Then why not send an email right away with the subject "Classic Mini Driver Training" to miniclubs-international-office@minispace.com. You'll automatically receive information right away on the MCIO driver training courses. However, there is one restriction. These training courses are currently only being offered in Germany.
1) 1 Table 2) 2 Station Pull-Ups 3) 1 Mountain Bike 4) 2 Skis 5) 2 Ski poles 6) 2 Ski Boots 7) 1 Chair (the second one was a loaner chair from the Calgary Farmers' Market) 8) 2 Station Flags (set-up outside of the Calgary Farmers' Market) 9) 2 Station Flag Stands 10) 2 45 lbs weights to hold down the Station Flags 11) 1 Boom Box to play the KooL Tunes 12) 1 Draw Box for Prince Concert Tickets 13) 4 pairs of Ice Skates
and it all fits without a problem in MINI Deeds... And I still had room for more!
We still need your help! Go to www.minicalgary.ca and MINI Deeds & I will come over to your house or work to pick up all your genlty used sporting equipment for kids in need!
