Welcome to Parapan Am Games dot Com, one of many websites to support our Pan and Parapan American Games web portal.  In this website we will be bringing you the latest News about Toronto and South-western Ontario's path to hosting the 2015 Parapan American Games.  You will also note that at the top of the news section we have provided the links to the Toronto2015.org (official website) News Page in English, French and Spanish: Para traduzir páginas do site thr da web em Português Google pode fazer isso.   official website NEWS   site officiel NOUVELLES   site oficial NOTICIAS     English   Français   Español   A funny thing happened developing these sites.  The dot ca versions were developed yet since they needed to be renewed in advance of their renewal date the site I had crafted showing where the proposed venues of the Parapan Am Games would be (ParaPanAmGames.ca)  was deleted.  It worked out well for when I contacted the organising committee in February 2012 they mentioned that they will revealing this information within the next few months.  Our mission is to fully support the Organising Committee and will bring you the news as they reveal it to the public. They contacted me recently to let me know that some time in October 2012 they will be providing an update regarding the venues: so we should stay tuned to the News web page of the official website. Nevertheless we are building our collection of one-page websites to serve both the Toronto Pan Am Games and the Toronto Parapan Am Games.  It is our hope that we ourselves can gather resources and create a Dream Team to convert these one page sites into hosting websites where our capability to bring you extensive information about the 2015 Toronto Games. It is very exciting nurturing the vision and mission we have set (much like the drive to achieve a medal for superior performance) and our involvement serving children with special needs shares with us an important pulse in these activities and inspires us to achieve new personal bests..  For example we built the Sensory Room at Variety Village (link below) and know that great funds will be allocated to renovate this amazing fitness facility the serves people of all abilities in time for the 2015 Games. Variety Village does need your support to repair a leaking roof. Our research has led us to explore Twitter and it is amazing the wealth of information that available to netork. Our vision (hint to those who also want to build a Parapan themed website - for we need many to bring the wealth of information resources and awareness to the forefront promoting sport in our Community - inclusively) will be to not only network information to the visiting athletes and visitors to Toronto but perhaps most importntly share with aspiring athletes information as to how they can become involved in the choice of sports and network them via Twitter the pulse of champions - Twitter is such a great medium to share the trial, tribulations and joys of day to day living - including the challenges and drive for perserverance.  As an example you can follow Rachael Burrows, a paralympic athlete, in wheelchair racing activities.  Unfortunately she suffered a shoulder injury at the Guadalajara Pan Am Games - Let's all beam her some Healing Energy and wish her a speedy recovery: Visit Rachael's Blog.  When you read her story you know she is a champion. August 12, 2010:  The www.torontopanamericangames.com  web portal construction / development begins:  Just as it is with the 2015 Parapan American Games this web portal will be built during the time leading up to the Games and has been conceived to complement this major sporting event with the goal of generating resources for the Community so that we can indeed make this the best Games ever. The method of reporting the news will be much like that of a Blog with the entries being posted below starting with the most recent. Share with us the news reports from your Community. Phone: 416 769-7700 or Toll Free in North America: 1.888.668.6248 Mark @friendlyville.com   Let's Build It For The Children, Today! Please shop with our website sponsors who are linked / listed within our 2915 Toronto Parapan & Pan Am Games' portal of websites for your product, service and Information needs. You don't need to be selling anything to participate: you can always promote your favourite (favorite) business as well as promote your favourite charity. We encourage each of the sponsors to donate to registered charities in their Community / Communities and preferably to a Registered Sports Club. Together we all can help contribute to making these a most amazing Toronto 2915 Parapan American Games and 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games for us all to enjoy. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR "BUILD IT FOR THE CHILDREN, TODAY!" ADVERTISING CONCEPT AND HOW TO BECOME A WEBSITE SPONSOR PLEASE VISIT: www.websites2b1.com       March 18, 2012: ENGLISH FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL PORTUGUÊS We're inviting the athletes and coaches from the Americas and people from all around the world to Toronto and Ontario in Canada for the 2015 Games: Check out the Paralympic organizations of representative countries: Nous invitons les athlètes et les entraîneurs en provenance des pays des Amériques et des gens de partout dans le monde à Toronto et en Ontario au Canada pour les Jeux de 2015: Connectez-vous avec les organisations représentatives des pays paralympiques: Estamos invitando a los atletas y entrenadores de los países de las Américas y la gente de todo el mundo a Toronto y Ontario en Canadá para los Juegos del 2015: Conectar con las organizaciones representativas de los países en Paralímpicos: Estamos convidando os atletas e treinadores dos países das Américas e pessoas de todo o mundo para Toronto e Ontário, no Canadá para os Jogos de 2015: Conecte-se com as organizações Paraolímpicos de países representativos: National Paralympic Committees For The Americas Contact Information For Americas Paralympic Organisations / Organizations Country Specific Websites Comité Paralímpico Argentino Barbados Council for the Disabled Canadian Paralympic Committee Federación Paralímpica de Chile Comité Paralímpico Colombiano Comité Paralímpico de Costa Rica Federacion Deportiva Paralimpica Ecuatoriana A Sports Smile From Haiti Comité Paralímpico Mexicano Comité Paraolímpico Nicaraguense (CPANIC) U.S. Paralympics - United States Olympic Committee Comité Paralimpico Uruguayo Comité Paralímpico de Venezuela     December 2, 2010:  SHORT NOTICE yet just found out about the City of Toronto's International Day of People With Disabilities celebration happening at Variety Village tomorrow morning (Friday December 3rd, 2010 from 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m..  For more information please visit the City Of Toronto website's web page: http://www.toronto.ca/diversity/intl_day_disabilities.htm  It's going to be a fun time at Variety Village, as it always is.   November 19, 2010:  We were looking for a website with sport descriptions for the Para Pan Am Games sporting events listed on our ParaPanAmGames.ca website: we are pleased to have discovered Para Sport Ontario. As  such we now have some description for the various sporting events.  Their list is not comprehensive yet so we'll keep searching.  This is indeed a expression of the need to support organizations such as Para Sport Ontario so that they might indeed have the resources to invest in expanding the descriptions.  We are also pleased that their website is well recognised by Google to the effect that the pages can be translated by Google into French, Spanish and Portuguese. October 5, 2010:  We need your help in building this web portal, in particular the 2015 Parapan Am Games websites.  As you might have noticed the Information on the Internet is limited in terms of Parapan Am Games's activities.  We have the opportunity with these two quality Parapan Am Games websites to really shine and as such we welcome your communications. Following is one fabulous website - subscribe to Play to Podium "Much more than a magazine, Play to Podium is a bond of popular media – print, internet and social networking – and an assembly of industry partnerships, providing the disability community a first-rate resource for special needs families on the go." In this Parapan Am Games News segment we wanted to celebrate Jeff Tiessen, the publisher and visionary behind Play 2 Podium.  (Click on the above image to visit the website.)  We know Jeff from attending the Active Living conference at Variety Village in Toronto.  When you have the opportunity to meet Jeff you'll understand why he is in our opinion a most amazing person and athlete.  Although he deals with his double amputee challenges there is nothing limiting about this man and no doubt his leadership inspires many others to succeed.  Being a former Paralyic athlete and world record holder we are fortunate to have his energy in our Community and no doubt he will be an most positive influence in our presenting the best Parapan American Games ever in 2015. Here's a video of Jeff on xable.com  October 1, 2010:  We are please to launch the Parapan Am News website to complement our Parapan Am and Pan Am Games web portal.  Much of of volunteer activities are centred on serving children with special needs and we are most honoured to have the responsibility to develop such a perfectively descriptive domain name as ParapanAmGames.Com and ParapanAmGames.Ca.  As we want to untilise these resources for the benefit of the Community we invite you to contact us to help to make it them into excellent websites for the 2015 Parapan American Games.  Contact mark @friendlyville.com or call 416 769-7700 (Toll Free in North America at 1.888.668.6248). The new Pan Am Games and ParaPan Am Games logo was unveiled this past week (Sept. 29, 2010).  Right on the date that our CEO of the Games, Mr, Ian Troop, said it would be, when he gave a speech at the Enable Diversity conference earlier this month. While our report of attending the Enable Diversity of Sept. 16th conference can be read in the Sept. 29, 2010 entry of our TorontoPanAmericanGames.ca website it is important to mention the the noun / verb "incluson" was emphasized in the presentation by Mr. Troop and in stressing that a major theme of the Games was to celebrate Diversity which includes very much those people with special needs. more to come soon