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Feb, 1,2,3 * 1991 * TERRACE
In the end we

did ourselves proud »

It’s over now, but it was grand.

After two years of planning, months of preparing, weeks of wor-
rying, and those last few days of never-to-be-equalled (we hope)
pure panic and desperate changes, the Northern B.C. Winter Games
have come and gone from Terrace. It seems almost like the day after
Christmas, when we suffer the mixed felings of relief that we got
through it, total exhaustion from all the preparation, and a kind of
“what is there to look forward to now?”’ feeling — almost a let
down,

The Winter Games chairman has taken off on a sort of busman’s
holiday — he is curling.in competition for the Royal Canadian
Legion provincial honours, representing Branch #13 Terrace in
Courtenay. Marge Skead, Games coordinator, is still wading
through the piles of paper, boxes of information and left-overs
which must now be straightened around back at the Games office,
and she still is threatening that one of these days she is going to take
aday off. soe

The Games office will remain open until all aspects of the Games
have been concluded, which will likely be some time in March.

Rod Cox, finance and administration chairman, is breathing
sighs of relief and going around with a smile on his face. This ap-
parently indicates that the Games did not lose a lot of money and
that should be enough to make him smile — I am just not real sure
what the reason is and it always makes me nervous when a financial
chairman smiles — I feel sure that I forgot to turn in a bill for some-
thing and there is no way he is going to pay me now.

The hostesses are soaking tired feet and exchanging amusing
stories of happenings during the weekend and swearing that they
may never smile again, and all the committee chairmen and the.
members of their committees are giving their heartfelt thanks to the
people of Terrace for their support, their enthusiasm and their
*‘Skeena Spirit’’.

We were afraid we would be short of billets, but the people of
Terrace came through and we had homes to spare, We worried
about finances, but the people of Terrace came through and finan-
cial goals were met. We worried about having enough volunteers to
handle all of the jobs that had to be done for these Games, but the
people of Terrace came through and there was help when it was
needed. The chairman of the Northern B.C. Winter Games 91, the
coordinator and the office staff and all the committees thank the
sponsors, the patrons and friends of the Winter Games, the busi-
nesses of Terrace, the volunteers who helped, the media, and most
of all, the people of Terrace, Kitimat and area. We are very proud
of our home town and the job you did, for it could not have been
accomplished without you.

As for what we have to look forward to now — I am sure that the
hospitality of this area will soon have us hosting another big event,
and even though right this minute all involved are saying ‘‘never
again’, we know better, we will indeed be doing such things again
and again and doing them well.

In the mean time, Terrace can take a little rest, relax and turn our
thoughts to the coming summer, and of course, our very own River-
boat Days, when once again we will give of ourselves and our time
for the furthering of our town and our own pleasures.

But before we think about that, this writer, like many other Ter-
race people, is going to have a little rest, a lovely (albiet short) holi-
day to southern regions, and after next week’s final article on the
subject, give the readers’ eyes a rest from the subject of Terrace’s
very successful hosting of the Northern B.C. Winter Games.

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 6, 1991 BS

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