Local swimmer ready to take on Lake Ontario

15 year old Jenna Lambert plans to do a marathon swim across Lake
Ontario this July to raise money for the local YMCA and Y Penguins.

The inspiration of Vicki Keith has made a marathon swimming protege out of one of her athletes.
Jenna Lambert, 15, a member of the Kingston Penguins swim team, will attempt a 32-km crossing of Lake Ontario this July. Lambert, born with cerebral palsy, is aiming to become the first person with a disability to swim across the lake.
And just like Keith, it’s all for a good cause.
The Kid 4 Kids Marathon, as its been dubbed, will help raise funds for the Kingston Family YMCA’s Character Brick Building Campaign which includes facility upgrades, a new 25-metre pool and 18,000 square-foot fitness area.
The $4.5 million dollar expansion is hoping to receive $2.5 million through fundraising, which Lambert hopes to boost.
Lambert says that Vicki Keith, her coach and good friend, has been a great inspiration to her and will be for her swim.
“Taking a God given gift and putting it to use for the good of others, that’s a goal worth striving for,” she says.
Keith will be there to support her along the way.
“No one can prepare you for the heights you will soar until you spread your wings,” says Keith.
The Y expansion project is close to Lambert’s heart. As a member of the Penguins swim team, she has found a new love in life. Lambert was born with cerebral palsy, a condition that reduces her movement and had forced her to walk with a walker.
Swimming for the past five years has improved her strength and movement she now walks with forearm crutches.
She has triumphed in the pool, too, recently winning her first international medals in competition. The next competition is against Lake Ontario.
The swim in July will begin in Point Peninsula, New York and will finish approximately 24 hours later, at the shore of Lake Ontario Park in Kingston.
To contribute to The Kid 4 Kids Marathon campaign visit the Y location at 100 Wright Cres., online at www.kingston.ymca.ca or call 546-2647.

Oh you silly stupid pastime of mine.

Despite wanting to be done my stint at the Kingston This Week I won't be for another three months or so. I did so well that they have offered me a summer position saying that out of everyone who interned with them that I showed the most enthusiasum and potential which really is great to hear. Weeee! As ridiculous as it sounds I will say it again that my 4 weeks [I decided to do another week] I have really grown, I'll go to shoots and get things done, approach people more openly and actually really like the stuff that I am producing. I am really excited because I feel like they actually like me and the work that I am producing and not just using me for 3 weeks to do stuff so they don't need to...But I would'nt have thought that anyway because the staff at the KTW are wonderful. So here's to a great summer, or what I will try to make out of it without Brant. boo. It'll be hard but we can do it.

ALSO - I'm SO going horseback riding TOMORROW!
Woot! Brant's cousin Jodie and her husband are having thir one year anniversary party tomorrow in Athens and we are going, I'm pretty excited they have 17 horses and probably other animals that I will get to see, they are having a dinner and a bonfire. I can't wait. This will be the closest thing to R&R that I have had in the last month...The baseball tournament SO doesn't even count either. Freezing your ass off in May doesn't count as relaxation at all.

But yeah, thats it. Not to sound like a retard but I'm really happy with the things that I have accomplished in the past little while it's awesome, I just hope that Brant will understand and support me, which he will I'm sure.

Yay for FUN! <3

You look like me, I look like hell.

So my internship is over which I did exceptionally well at, so well that they offered me a temp job there for awhile! I'm pretty excited. I worked my ass off for the past month and will have to for the next few months. It's a great job, a great publication and great people to be around, people who I really enjoy working with.
Despite being totally stoked I wish I was in Belleville, not to be in Belleville but to be with Brant.
I'm so lame right now and feel like a total girl and an idiot for writing on my blog when I feel crappy and when I miss Brant.

I feel and look like shit.

So I'm going to stop writing.

<3

You used to be one of the rotten ones an I liked you for that.

So I clearly haven't updated in eight-teen forevers, I've had a good reason though. Intern has taken over my life, but not in a bad way.

I love the Kingston This Week and everyone who works in the Editorial department. I've worked my ass off but I think that it shows and everyone here can see that.
The first week was pretty slow, only doing news briefs, community events and taking some photos while going out with Rob, KTW's photographer/photo editor, which was probably one of the best things that I could've done. It taught me alot and I got to see how he did everything. I got a few photos published in that paper but this week was the biggie, I got 3 stories, one which is on the first page published! and 7 photos in.
I think that that is a pretty big accomplishment for being an Intern and I'm glad that the staff there are confident enough in me that they will assign me alot of things and know that I will get them done by deadline no matter how hard I have to work.
Working at the paper actually makes me want to work for a newspaper, who would've thought 2 years in a photojourmalism course didn't give me the desire to do this but working at the newspaper really makes me want to do it.

Working with one of my favourite writers Lynn Rees-Lambert who is a phenomanal writer and loves what she does, she would be what I'd want my career to be half as good as hers is. She is a coloumists and is in charge of the A&E section at the KTW--which is exactly what I want to do!.

To say the least when next week is over it'll be sad but I think I wanna still write for them while I am working next year in Belleville, it'll give me my in to the community and it'll still feel like I am actually doing something that still feels like spending $20,000 on has been worth it.
Something I've found interesting while working at the KTW is the stats for newspapers around Ontario, The Kingston This Week is one of the smallest papers and get a lot of shit from bigger papers like *cough* TheWhig *cough*, although a great paper the KTW is above them in stats. More people read the KTW then bigger papers around the province.
I dunno, i just found the interesting. go ktw!

Here are some of my favourite things that I've shot ---[This is the Queen's Solar Car, Kids were having a tour of it.][Kingston's Track & Feild Championships][QECVI Baseball game][Highschool students planting trees in honour of Kingston's title of Canadas First capital]

So Intern's going well and I graduate on June 8th. Yay, real life. boo. But still exciting.

In other news: Traci got Dallas Green tickets for us cause she's the sex. So we're off to Toronto in June to cum in our pants.