Ottawa – (May 19, 2011). Legendary football champion Joe Montana will deliver the keynote address at the 14th Annual Ottawa Celebrity Sports Dinner, Monday October 24 at the Hampton Inn and Conference Centre.
Widely considered the best NFL quarterback of all time, Joe Montana personifies performance excellence and personal integrity both on and off the field. Yet the word most closely associated with him is not “winner”— it’s “leader.”
Joe Montana and the San Francisco 49ers won four Super Bowls and were the team of the 1980’s. What they accomplished in football may never be equalled. Montana won more than 70 percent of the games he started during his 16-year career with the team. He is the all-time NFL Leader in quarterback ratings (93.4). Known for his agility, his vision, his extreme accuracy as a passer, and his capacity to retain and act upon staggering loads of information, Montana’s excellence as a player is legendary.
"On the biggest football stage, no player in the history of the NFL performed like Joe Montana!” says Event Chair Stuart Ages. “It is an incredible honour to have Joe attend Canada's Premier Sports Fundraiser."
The Ottawa Celebrity Sports Dinner brings together elite members of Ottawa’s business community to raise much needed funds for important local charities. The Ottawa Celebrity Sports Dinner is proud to support the Soloway Jewish Community Centre and to welcome new beneficiary partner Citizen Advocacy, a community-based charity providing services to people with disabilities residing in the City of Ottawa.
“The Sports Dinner is the flagship sports event in Ottawa and Ontario. The Soloway Jewish Community Centre is proud to be the organizer of such a prestigious event,” says Soloway JCC President and COO, Barry Sohn. “Our Chairman, Stuart Ages and his committee do an amazing job covering every detail of this great event. I am thrilled to be a part of the OCSD!”
“I am delighted that Citizen Advocacy has the honor of being selected as the recipient charity of the Ottawa Celebrity Sports Dinner in 2011 along with the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Proceeds will be especially helpful in building the Fran Ages Fund of Lifetime Networks. This fund is specifically designated to supports individuals with disabilities and their support networks participate more fully in the life of our community,” says Brian J. Tardif, Citizen Advocacy Executive Director.