WGI8 Terrace Review — _ Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1986

Sports groups benefit —
from Winter Games legacy!

Benefits to Terrace in
the form of sports equip-
ment and improvements
to existing facilities, have
already been counted
and there'll be more to
come once the games are
wrapped up.

Here’s a list of equip-
ment to be left with
sports groups or facilities
so far:

Alpine skiing — an
electronic timer and race
poles — overall value
$7,900; Judo — mats
valued at $3,300; Gym-
nastics — landing mats,
spring board and beam
pad —
$3,200;

Basketball — a 30-sec-
ond — clock, plus
numerous balls —

overall value $2,290;
Volleyball — standards,

overall value —

referee stands, nets and
balls — overall value
$2,153; Weightlifting —
olympic class weights ~~
$2,100; Curling — meas-
uring device and_ ice-
cleaning equipment —
overall value $814.
Netball — standards
and balls — $809; Cross-
country skiing — score
hut and bibs — $350;
Wrestling — anklets and

repair kits — $350;
Hockey — pucks —
$220.

Twin City benefits

Kitimat also benefits
due to their hosting bad-
minton games. They get
nets, birds and standards
valued at $2,578.

As for facility im-
provements, weightlift-

Terrace residents gather
Terrace residents gather outside the municipal hall to
view the 1986 Winter games torch which has been erected
in recognition of the athletic event to be celebrated Feb.
27 to March 2, 1986 In the community. Local residents are
Rob Greno (front, left), Margaret Dodd, Wendy Berg and
her daughter Katrina, 20 months. Back row (I to r) are:
Keith Norman, Nancy Boychuk, Christine Yagelniski, Bob

Haltsor and Mike Rossiter.

Skip Bergsma

Skip Bergsma, assistant
superintendent of schools
for School District 88, ex-
lends greetings to Terrace
quests.

Visit the
Heritage
Park

Heritage Park at the
top of Kalum Street hill
will be open daily from
10 am. to 4 p.m. for
visitors during the length
of the games. Visitors
may also be interested in
seeing the fish hatchery
located just a few
kilometers north of Ter-
race off Kalum Lake
Drive.

ing will get a $500 plat-
form. Cross-country ski
trail work will be done to
the tune of $1,500. Thir-
ty sets of portable
bleachers valued at
$12,000 have been con-
structed, and will stay in
Terrace for use through-
out the community.

The Rotary Club has
donated $10,000 towards
the improvement of
lighting in the arena, and
Pacific Northern Gas is
donating up to $10,000
towards the installation
of heaters above the
arena stands.

Various improvements
to school district
facilities will come to
about $5,500, and the
Thornhill Community
Centre will be blessed
with a $2,500 stage.

This all adds up to the
Terrace Winter Games
Society contributing
$32,000 in faciltiy im-
provements here, and at
Kitimat and Thornhill.

Legacy left

Following the games,
a legacy will be left in the
community to be spent
on amateur sports. The

exact amount is not yet
known, but it will consist
of at least $70,000 plus
one-half of profits
generated through sou-
venir sales. The dispersal
of these funds will be
decided soon,

It goes without saying
that thousands more
dollars will be spent here
by athletes and spec-
tators. Retail outlets will
benefit here.

A bottom line estimate
is that the direct benefit
from the games will
come to more than
$150,000.

The ribbon cutting

Whitney Brinnen, center, Miss Terrace; Mireille
Schmiderer, left, first princess; and Dena Ippel, second
princess, cut the ribbon for the official opening of the
B.C. Winter Games to be staged In Terrace Feb. 27 to
March 2, 1986.

The Games float

The 1986 Winter Games float graces the streets praceded by four of our finest.

Competition
reaches its

spiritual
| a home when
Dave Simons
Dave Simons, retiring first athletes
vice president for the B.C.
Old Age Pensioners trive
organization, wishes
athletes “all the best” on S
behalf of sanior citizens in
Terrace. “t only wish we for
(seniors) could be taking
part In all the events,”
Simons commented. excel len ce
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magnificent effort.

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