be Jan.20, The annual, traditional] Burns Night celebration will be held in the Skeena Room of the Terrace Hotel on January 20. The haggis, the heather, the pipers and the Scottish dancers and singers await in readiness this gala event. Formerly sponsored by the Terrace ' HAVANA-Canada might . set up a winter-training Cuba for Canandian amateur athletes as early as next December. Sucha camp would help to enable the _ Canandians.to work all ear on summer.sports thateriormatly: ave.ruled out by their own coun- try’s winter climate. Canandian officals said the camp could be one benefit of an exchange agreement signed on weekend by federal sports minister Iona mpagnolo and her Cuban counterpart, Jorge Garcia Bango. of the agreement will be series of visits by Canandian and Cuban amateur athletes to each -other’s countries. At a_news' conference after the signing, Mrs. Campagnolo said she was delighted because sports can be “a wonderful ice- breaker” between nations, _ Then-realizing that the commor _ VANCOUVER (CP) — Westcoast Transmission Co, Ltd. is applying today Boad in Ottawa fer ap- proval of an $80.5 million project the company says ill save energy. The company wants to loop the remaining 178 kilometres of its 1,033- kilometre natural gas ipeline from Chetwynd, fn northeastern British Columbia, to Huntingdon, near the United States border in the Fraser Val- ley. Soha Anderson, | Westcoast execute vice- resident, said in. an interview Monday that looping the remaining portion of the pipeline would be an energy- saving measure. Looping is doubling a line = ayin aeeher pipeline parallel to it. Westcoast said Monday the project would create about 600 new cCon- y struction jobs at the peak. of activity. The average - number ef jobs for: the sevenmonth period of } ; = construction would be 300. to 400, ' ' When the, aplotennit § completed, wall mean between 10 to 1 The immediate result to the National Energy Shrine Club, in 1976 the tradition will be con- tinued by the Terrace Hotel. Toastmaster - M.C. will be Stacey Maris; address to the Haggis will be given by Bill Bennett; Toast to the Haggis by Hugh McKenna. ‘The Toast of Thankfulness Tona’s year-round plan Our athletes may take Winter training in Cuba Augue (Mc) Geeraert preparing for Burns Night at the Terrace Hotel. Dinner Burns Night In Terrace will be proposed by Jean Orr; the Immortal Memory of the Bard by Vesta Douglas; to the Lassies Percy Newly ive, with the y given by Doreen MaKenda. . Further in- formation is available by contacting the Terrace ntet. . Canandian expression is superb. “breaking the ice” meant nothing to her Cuban audience’she changed her metaphor to “won- derfull door-opener.” The canadian minister “Ofi state for fitness’ and “amateur: sport “dismissed “comments= + in->--the Canadian “media, “"” suggesting she was in Cuba mainly to bask in the sun. She'said she had been busy since arriving in Havana last Thursday evening and had not bee fear a beach. - Among the first ex- change visits scheduled under | the new a ment: . nandian wrestlers will come to Cuba "Ee 5 3 -B tj & is -, Canadian fencers and a. |: uestrian team will visit Cuba in March. -In May, CANADIANS TAKE PART IN THE ANNUAL Barrien Memorial track and field meet held in Santiago de Cuba. : junior , Mrs. Campagnolo met -In June, Canandian Friday with senior Cuban officials, including-to her surprise-Premier Fidel CASTRO. She said Castro was extremely interested in sports, telling her thathe used to pitch baseball and sayin that he stil skin dives an plays basketball, When Castro told her he also loves fishing, Mrs. Campagnolo suggested he should visit her British Columiba constituency, where the saimen fishing 15 permanent new jobs for operating and mainte- nance personnel, EABLY START “We hope to start the project this spring, and complete it this autumn,” Anderson said. . “There are 18 com- pressor stations along the existing 30-inch diameter pipeline,"’ said A, L. Green, Westcoast vice- president of sales. ‘Each compressor is driven by gas taken out of the pipeline, * he said. “By laying another pipe—it would be 36 in- ches in diameter— alongside the remaining unlooped 178 kilometres, we could reduce the amount of gas taken from - Gymnasts will visit Havana. -A Cuban wrestling team = [ will train and compete.in Alberta and Ontario. cities between March 12- -The excellent Cuban _ Wwater-polo team will visit |, Edmonoton between March 20-27, Cuban divers wil) visit Cananda between April 16-23 and cuban s . mers will be in Winnipeg between May 7-14. $80.5 million plan to loop N.W. BC gasline the line to drive the compressors, and the complete system can operate at a lower pressure. ‘ “We estimate we can save seven billion cubic feet of gas a yeam enougm to heat aboutan,- 000 homes for a yeay,”"'he said. ; : In financial terms, Westcoast -says it can make @ 1e1 cost of ice saving of $5.2 mi 1979—if the . project is completed on schedule— adually increasing to 14 million, in current terms, in 1987,. but An- derson said, “we can’t say at this point if it will ultimately mean lower gas rates.” TODAY IN ‘HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS 8.1978 Wats Hele on Scott reached the South Pole 66 years ago — today—in 1912—one month after the Norwegian polar ex: plorer Amundsen reached it. The British explorer who was -backed ilnancially by the ‘British and dominion governments, began his southern sledge journey: in’ November, . 1911, - November, 1912... Though dela sickness ant aby weather, Scott and his four companions reached the. pole to find they had been beaten by Amund- ‘ sen. All Scott's group perished on: the return journey due to sickness;:!: ufficient food and the severity of the ‘weather, but their remains and’ records of the epic journey were found by a_ search . party’ in® for. a. on in . In February THE HERALD, Wednesday, January 18, 1978, PAGE 3 Premier Bennett To Present First Brief At Unity Task Force Meeting In Vancouver Premier Bill Bennett will present the first brief to the Task Force on Canadian Unity at its: two-day meeting in Vancouver February 8 and 9. The Provincial Government is one of more -_ than 50 organizations or in- dividuals who hae in- dicated they wil | make submissions. . The -. eight-member Task Force, headed by Hon. John Robarts and Hon. Jean-Luc Pepin, began meetings in major centres last fall to let Canadians express views on national unity. enting the B.C - Yukon area on the Task Force igs Mayor Ross Marks of 100 Mile House. All the sessions are informal and open to the public, said J.D. Wilson, airman of aé_ B.C. Committee set up to co- ordinate presentations and organize arrangements for the t= ‘scheduled only two days Task Force in the Province. Any organization or individual may appear before the Task Force, and need not: be ex- perienced in preparing or making presentations, Mr. Wilson said. “We welcome the widest possible range of viewpoints from organizations and in- dividuals." However, since Force the has and .two evenings for presentations in ‘ebruary, time for eac h participant is limited. Daytime sessions will be for organizations and. evenings for individual presentations. In- dividuals are free to make oral ntations in the evenings without submitting briefs or advising the committee of their intention to ap- r. the meetings will be held in the B.C, Ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver, starting at 9:00 a.m. Mr. Wilson said written submissions can be any length, hut oral resentations of ghlights are limited to five to ten minutes. Writeen summaries of briefs wit with specific recommendations are required. Newspaper ad- yertisements inviting submissions to the Task Force appeared in November and in ad- dition invitations were sent later by the B.C. Committee to a number of organizations representing a cross- sections to the Task Force appeared in November and in ad- dition invitations were sent later by the B.C. Committee to a number of organizations representing a cross- section of interests in the Province, Mr. Wilson said. Leaders of the three opposition parties in the Provincial Legislature were included in those sent invitations. The 21 member B.C. Committee includes representatives from labor, business, the academic community and a variety of other interest groups. Requests to make presentations can still be made, Mr. Wilson said. If there are more requests than time available, selection of those to make presentations wili be made by the B.C. Com- mittee. “Tt may not be possible in the two days the Task Force has given itself for everyone to appear in person to present i hlights of their briefs,” he said. ‘‘But all material submitted will be considered by the Task Force.” Mr. Wilson said smaller public meetings with some members of the Task Force will also be held in late spring in Victoria, Prince George, Kamloops and Cran- braok, for those unable to make presentations at the Vancouver meeting. Dates of these will announced later. Vancouver ia eleventh in a series of visits by the Task Force to major centres in Canada’s ten vinces and two territories. 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