The Honourable Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, will speak at the Athlete Draft and Send-off Celebration for Team NL as they depart for the 2020 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games on Sunday, February 23.

The event will take place in Room IIC 2001 at the Bruneau Centre for Research and Innovation, Memorial University, St. John’s, beginning at 4:00 p.m.

Forty-four athletes will compete as Team NL in seven different sports at the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games in Thunder Bay, Ontario, from February 25-29.

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