All of us at Zack's Place  want to thank you for your generosity, volunteer time, and
support in 2015. We hope to see you soon in 2016!

   2015 was filled with amazing programs at Zack's Place of which all were offered for free. We currently have over 60 individuals attending our programs and they come from all over the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire and beyond. We have 3 individuals that attend, that have moved to our area just because of Zack's Place.  All of our funding comes from generous donors, grants and private foundations and fundraising. Our annual fundraisers include "The Stay at Home Tea" an annual appeal, The "Dine Around Events" a series of private parties throughout the community, The Woodstock Phone Book which we produce and raise money by selling advertising, "The Tournament of Champions" an annual golf tournament and "The Zack's Place Turkey Trot which is a 5K walk and run on Thanksgiving Day. We could not do what we do without you!
We try to include a variety of programs to help our participants have a well rounded day and good choices of enriching classes to attend.  In the winter we have Snow Shoeing, Skiing, in the spring we hike and cycle, summer we kayak and canoe, ride horses and swim and fall is for hiking, bowling and cycling. We have a daily fitness program as well as art and educational programs offered on a daily basis.
The pictures below are of a variety of programs that we had in 2015.

Zack's Place has skied at Suicide 6 with Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sport  for four years, and the Woodstock Resort Corporation lets us ski for free!

The Zack's Place Special Olympics Snowshoe team has competed for 9 years!

Music is so important to us. Fred on the harmonica and our music teacher Kerry Rosenthal.

We love art and have it daily! Marty is making a project with Amanda.

Zack's Place loves field  trips and learning. Lindsey and Sarah learn about bubbles at Montshire Museum.

Staying fit is really important to us. Bari Ramirez has helped us keep fit every week since Zack's Place opened it's doors in 2006.

We take a weekly pottery class with Fiona Davis at Artistree.

We love Science. Anthea Lavallee teaching us science.

Tita Manice has taught yoga at ZP since we opened our doors in 2006.

We love swimming at UVAC!

Terri Long works with us in our really fun writing workshops!

Woodstock Union High School Students have thrown ZP a beautiful prom for the past 5 years.

We hiked the entire Railtrail from Andover to Lebanon.

Zack's Place put on a terrific musical called "Zackton Abbey".

We love our adaptive sports! Annie O'Neil is paddleboarding.

We have lots of fun field trips to our friends houses and farms. Carl and Joyce Hurd have a summer slip and slide party each year for us.

Jessie Tensen on Silver Lake, Kayaking with Vermont Adaptive.

Zack's Place had a Special Olympics Golf team for the first time in 2015. That is our team up on the podium receiving medals.

We love horseback riding at Moonrise farm.

Josh is figuring out how the machinery  works at Precision Museum in Windsor.

Keegan hits a drive during our golf competition.

We are so lucky to have Marsh Billings Farm and Museum and the National Park within walking distance to our center. We do frequent programs there all year long.

We like to visit our historical society.

VASS did a spring and fall cycling program with us.

ZP participants cleaning up our garden.

We love to pick apples with our friend Josh at Maple Wood Farm

ZP hiking the rail trail and greening up. This program was made possible by a grant from TransCanada.

Volunteer Brian Kopf builds a new walkway for us. It was his Eagle Scout project.

Mary Thulander works on Pumpkin Art with us.

ZP loves the Woodstock Elementary School Student council. They come once a month to do projects with us and they put on a pep rally for our Snow Shoe Special Olympics Team.

Zack's Place staff and participants compete in our largest fundraiser, the ZP Turkey Trot.

We reached our goal of 39 miles on the rail trail in November!

Ed makes muffins for the ZP Turkey Trot in our weekly cooking class.

Anthea teaching us about gravity.

ZP loves to bowl!

ZP showing off the Kissing Balls that we made with Claire Ruch and Ellen Snyder.