Zone 10

Games team
brings back
26 medals

The Zone 10 B.C, Senior Games
team made up of players from
Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert
are proud of the fact they won 18
medals last year.

This year’s adventure into the
annual event for seniors aged 55
and older at Coquitlam was even
more lucrative — our gang came
home with 26 medals from the
- games held early in September.
We had some superlative perform-
ances, including Joe Mandur’s five
gold and one silver effort in the
swimming pool.

Terrace veteran Bud Kirkaldy
came up with four medals in track
and field. He won gold for the
shotput, javelin and discus, plus a
silver in the long jump.

In badminton, Kitimat’s Dorothy
Cheyne brought home two silver
medals while her teammate Ann
Kawa had one silver.

Jim Allan had good wind in the
bagpipe event. Jim won a couple
of silver medals.

Prince Rupert’s Ted Arney hit
golf balls accurately enough to
collect a gold in his event. Bob
Bennett came through with a goid-
medal effort in darts.

In horseshoe tossing, Betty Dem-
"mitt won silver while Joan Ziraldo
took a bronze.

Rupert’s Vi Walker won two
swimming medals — one silver
and one bronze.

Doreen Lindeman was a silver
medallist in five-pin bowling.

Our walkers were successful as
well, including a gold for Joe
Smith in the 10-kilometre event
and a pair of bronzes for Jim
MacDougall for his efforts in both
five and 10-K walking.

_A surprise winner was Terrace’s
Bill Bennett, He won gold in the
five-K walking race. What’s so
surprising? He’s over 80 years old,

“Zone 10 hopes to have more than
100 competitors for the 92 games
slated for Dawson Creek, August
27 to 30. .

"We had a ball this year," one of
them. told us.

Where the
athletes and the
readers meet:
the Terrace Review

Sports Section

SWEET HOMECOMING. These are some of the from the

members of the Terrace contingent, shown here at
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B.C. Senior Games with a pot of medals.
Participants from the Northwest accumulated 26
medals at the Games, held this year in Coquitlam.

OLD,

BUT

SPEEDY —

Being a gold medal winner ina
sporting event is memorable for a
youngster, but if you happen to be
83 years old it’s amazing.

Well-known Terrace resident Bill
Bennett earned his gold medal at
the B.C. Seniors’ Games at Co-
quitlam earlier this month. Bill was
one of several over-55 competitors,
and by far the eldest from here.

His award came in the five-kil-
ometre waik, an event for which
he’s well qualified.

Bennett has the regular habit of
walking about three miles every
day for exercise. This means he’s

in very good shape for a man his
age.

Bill spent 30 years of his carly
life at sea. He joined the Merchant
Marines when aged 17. He also
spent eight years in the Canadian
Amny in World War I.

Born in Scotland in 1907, he’s
been married for 52 years to wife
Norma. They have one son and
four grandchildren.

Billi owned and operated The
Motel for 32 years. He sold out
three years ago and now lives in
retirement.

High school sports
scene taking shape

The high school sports situation
will be keener this season with the
approval of Burns Lake teams to
quit the North Central zone and
compete in our Northwest zone in
future as either double ’AA’ or
single °A’ (depending on the
school’s population).

This was one of the items that
came up at the NW athletics meet-
ing held at Thornhill Junior high
school on Friday.

Soccer will be kicking off the
inter-school season, quickly fol-

lowed by volleyball and then bas-
ketball. Badminton, track and field
and finally golf will wind up the
school year next spring.

A complete schedule for all
sports is expected to be out by the
end of this month.

Meanwhile, Terrace will get its
mini-basketball season underway
with a registration this Friday at 6
p.m. at Caledonia Senior Second-

ary gym. It’s for boys and girls in

the Grades 5 to 7 age group.

SCHOOL IN KELOWNA; WHERE SHE STUDIED

THIS SUMMER, LISA LITTLE BEGAN WORKING
AT KERMODEI TRADING IN TERRACE. SHE'S
HAPPY IN HAVING JUST RETURNED FROM

TRAVEL AND TOURISM. |
IN HER WORDS, THE PEOPLE OF TERRACE ARE
REALLY DOWN TO EARTH

SUPPORTED BY THE CITY OF TERRACE

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