Week 4: Media Trifecta for Winnipeg

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Week 4: Media Trifecta for Winnipeg

On Robbie Burns Day day itself, Cathy was interviewed by CTV Television under the title “How You can help Winnipeg become Canada’s Kilt Skate Capital.” Cathy again emphasizes that you don’t have to be Scottish to participate in the kilt skate. “You only have to have Scottish spirit, which all of us have inside us.” She was also asked whether it’s ok to wear longjohns under the kilt. Some may dispute her answer, but let me point out that Cathy has been skating daily throughout a very cold Winnipeg winter. And that “Scottish spirit”” she talks about includes a healthy dose of pragmatism.

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Week 3: Kilts, Cottages and Burns Celebrations

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Week 3: Kilts, Cottages and Burns Celebrations

The third week of the Great Canadian Kilt Skate finds more Canadians celebrating Scottish heritage on the nearby outdoor ice where they can safely skate socially distanced. For the third week in a row (and her 18th skate so far this winter), the ever-enthusiastic Cathy Laver-Wright was flying the flags proudly on Winnipeg’s Centennial River Trail.

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Home Edition Week 2 -- A River to Skate Away On

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Home Edition Week 2 -- A River to Skate Away On

These past weeks of continued pandemic, some provincial governments have tightened their public health protocols, urging people to stay indoors and stay isolated. In Ontario, the list of reasons to leave home includes exercise, and local governments add their own restrictions on how and where to do it. If you’re going to skate, they caution, do it locally. Well, you can’t get more local than the stream that runs through your property in South Glengarry — now frozen so that, as Joni Mitchell longed for, you have a river you can skate away on.

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