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OFFICE OF THE MINISTER and Government Services V8V 1X4

May 9, 1980

‘Mayor G. R. Laking
City of Port Coquitlam
2272 McAllister Avenue
Port Coquitlam, B.C,
V3C 2A8

Dear Mayor Laking;

RE: 1982 British Columbia Winter Games
1982 British Columbia Summer Games
1983 British Columbia Winter Games
1983 British Columbia Summer Games

On behalf of the Government of British Columbia, it
is my pleasure to invite your community to bid to host the 1982
or 1983 British Columbia Summer or Winter Games. ‘Your community
may bid on all four Games or any number of the four Games. How-
ever, you would of course only be awarded one of the Events. In
the event you bid on more than one of the Games, each Games you
bid on must be by a separate and distinct bid.

The first British Columbia Summer Games were held in
Penticton in 1978; the first B.C. Winter Games in Kamloops in 1979;
the second B.C. Summer Games in Richmond in 1979; the second B.C.
Winter Games in Kimberley in 1980 and future Games have been awarded
to Kelowna (Summex 1980); Prince George (Winter 1981); Comox-Courtenay=
Cumberland (Summer 1981). .

This year's 1980 Winter Games in Kimberley involved over
2,000 B.C. athletes and this year's B.C. Summer Games in Kelowna
Will involve 3,600 B.C. athletes - in 1979 we involved 112,000
British Columbians in all the playdowns leading up to the Games.

You will note in the enclosed criteria for bidding, that
the Government of British Columbia will provide $210,000.00 for
@ach of the 1982 B. C. Summer and Winter Games and $220,000.00 for
each of the 1983 B. c. Summer and Winter Games =- the Winter Games
are to be held in Mareh and the Summer Games in August.

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