ko provide facility and atmosphere which will permit this
development and attract children, parents and coaches who will
anhance this imaqe and who will serve as cammunity role models

for skaters and non-skaters alike.
A national champion such as an Elizabeth Manley 106 not

come about due ta wishful thinking. She has trained (all year
lang) arid worked for a number oaf years. Setbacks and
disappointments have been ineluded with the triumphs but the

support af her family, her coaches, her peers and her community

ave all contributed to her desire to achieve excellence. Why

must aur talented skaters mave from aur cammunity to receive the
encouragement, support and training facilities required? Why
must very talented local skater Shannon Allisan, whoa has
ated at Port Conoutitlam with one of our coaching staff, be
quired to travel daily to the North Shore to train? These
acilities must be available, moat only for these very talented
athletes, but also far the enes as well as the
recreational ones.
there will be no spring ice for FoCoa skaters this year,
SO children will travel to Coquitlam to pay a premium
or ice and tm receive second-rate times, when these are
avaltlable. Will these and other FoCc zthildren be forced to
travel to Maple Ridge and Surrey again this summer to continue
with their sport? Will minor hockey users be forced to seek ice
in Burméeby toa cantinue their programs? Will the very successful
Fort Caquitlan Ringette group be forced to halt their progress
and start over again in September? Will our beginners, or as we

call thems our Canskate children, who now number in excess of