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Over the Edge in Rappel for United Way with

Daniel Villeneuve

By Christine Ouellet $40,000. Daniel Villeneuve himself
raised $1605.00 for that one-day
his year, the 2023 United Way event, which is fantastic. He says,
TCentraide SDG (UWC SDG) “I think that it is a really thrilling
campaign is taking “building way of doing fund raising for the
a community” to new heights community. The climbers were
in partnership with Over the not all experienced climbers, there
Edge and St. Lawrence Seaway was even a couple of climbers who
Management Corporation. And as were afraid of heights, and they
part of their fundraiser campaign, decided to do it to beat their fear
they held a hair-raising event on and step outside their comfort zone
Saturday September 23rd, the and they were able to complete it.”
rappelling of the St. Lawrence It was the first time that
Seaway Management Corporation Villeneuve rappelled down a
building. This nine-storey edifice building. He had taken some
is one of the tallest buildings in rock climbing courses in the past,
Cornwall. and this summer he and his wife

Fifty participants ‘went over the rappelled the Montmorency Falls
edge’ in rappel and raised over in Quebec City. He said, “That

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was great, we had wet suits, and not as bad as some people think. But
there are so many safety checks;
the very cold water was splashing

us as we were coming down the one is your rappel rope and the
falls. It was very different than this other is your safety rope. It would
rappel.” be impossible to fall.”

He describes the rappelling He thinks that such an event is a
experience as, “When you go down, great opportunity for everybody to
you are very concentrated, you are do something for charity, as it gets
not thinking about the height, you the whole community involved,
think about what you must do with working towards one goal. He finds
your hands, and you must not let that it is better and more fun doing

your mind take over. They train you something like that, it is so much
ahead of time, so you know what to more exciting. What a spectacular

do. You are concentrating on your and great way to do a fundraiser, it

rappel and moving your ropes. It’s was really thrilling.