Wayne Epp, the Mills Memorial
chairman watches as Lois
director, pins a rose to Fanny Parvainen who retires

Hospital board
Bennest, the personnel

soon after 20 years of service to the hospital here in the
housekeeping department.

NEW COACH STRESSES ©

Cee Bee

By DON’ SCHAFFER”
Herald Staff Writer

“The moat important thing
about the ski program I'm
going to set up is that the
skiers develop as people.”

Cliff Oughtred, the new
coach of the Kitsumkalum
Mountain Ski Team, says
that the team's success is
important, but that he
measures success in terms
much broader than just ood

ea are: “placements,
“Toye ual es Weare
ifivolved with to become
better skiers, sure, but there
are other important things to
consider when you're
dealing with teenagers,”

“We as coaches can never
Jose sight of the fact that the
skiers are individuals,’’
Oughtred aaid.

“We are looking for good
competition. resulta, but we
also the. .skiers to
became better peaple."

“Good times are im-
portant, but if the sklers
imprave constantly then that
ia what’s really important,”
Oughtred said. ‘We want the
Kids to become better than
themselves.”

Qughtred is an ex:
perlenced coach at 28-years-
old, He has coached for 12

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Northern Mainland, Queen
Charlottes: Keavy rain
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rain heavy at times, gusty
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Friday with a few showers

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Highe near 7, lowa 1 to 8.
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The central and northern
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generally clear conditions

CLIFF OUGHTRED..,
«marke count

years, three of which he
spent running his own school
and two of which were spent
on New Zealand's South
Island coaching their club
level aki team.

Hailing originally trom
Vancouver, Oughtred ; ot his

first training on™ Whistler’

Mountain. He has ilved in
Kelowna for the past few
years.

He is a member of the.
Coaches.

Canadian Ski
Federation and the Canadian
Ski Instructor's AlHance.
“Terrace has a lot of
potential to develop racers,
what with the hill so cloae

and the Ski in Schools :

program,” Oughtred said.
"Tn order to get'a good bunch

i

2)

Skiers are people too

of skiers, though, the area
needs a good, professional,
well-organized ski-racing
program, and that ia what I
hope, to be bringing to the

Oughtred said that he is
the first time that the area
has hada full-time coach, He
will be splitting his tme
between the club and the ski
school, where he will be one

Ronee tas
AHS... Gor:
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factora in the operation of
the club, Oughtred sald, and
that all dé the team members
must maintain passing
grades in achool toremain on
the team.

“We want to develop good
aki racers, but we also

concentrate on developing

self-discipline. If skiing is
going to hurt the racer's
-@rades..at school, then he
doesn’t have Ume to ski.”

“Skiing doesn’t offer any
benetita if it takes away from
the other facets of the per-
Bon's education,"

He said that although the
‘organization he will bring to
the club will be important to
Ita success, ultimately the
club rises or falls on the
members.

“The kids we will have are
the keys to the operation,"
Oughtred said. ‘When it

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t

Photo by Greg Middleton [im

comes down to It, it is the
kids that get out and do the
fundraising, it's the kids that
go out and work for the good
times and It's the kids that do
the performing.” -_

The club’s program
conslata of training in three
diaciplines of ski racing, the
downhill, giant slalom and
slalom on Saturdays and
Sundays until the end-of the

, Season, one night a week on
the Hill) and two -houra of
dryland ‘training per week.-

There will also be weekend
travel to selected races until
the end o, the seasdn, and a
ten-day Uhristmas camp
consisting of four days of
downhill and giant slalom
tralning at Kitsumkalum,
downhill training in Prince
‘George and then giant
slalom workouts in Prince
George, iasting until Jan. 4,

Oughtred says that he is
trying to build the base of a
good program which will
eventually lead to the
development of national ski
team members,

He will be conducting
once-weekly clinics for the
Nancy Greene (13 years ald
and under) coaches while he
is here, and through a
strengthening of the younger
skiers’ skills, hapes to
develop a good program
from the ground up.

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The administrative ataff at
Milla Memorial Hospital
demonstrated Friday that
elephants aren’t the only
creatures with good
memories,

In a display of good will
and appreciation for the
good work performed by
hospital employees over the
years, 18 workers were
presented with long service
awards in a. special
ceremony Friday morning.

The awarda were
presented to. employees who
have served the hospital for
five, ten, and in one case
twenty years, Over 50 em-
ployees from all hospital
departments attended the
ceremony, highlighted by
the presentation of the 20
year service award to Fanny
Parvainen.

Presenting the pins were
Wayne Epp, the chairman of
the hospital board, Lois
Bennest, the director of

The Herald, Thursday, December 27, 1979 Page 3

Hospital honors the staff

personnel, and Shirley
Bentley, the director of
nursing and acting hespital
administrator,

Listed below are the 18
workers who received pins
for their years of service, A-
five-year award: L, Camp-
bell, T. DeJesus, N. Jacura,
K. Kuzyk, M. Lloyd, E.

Mental

Manji, F. Pearce, M.
Petrick, C. Sinctair,

l0-year award: M,
Batagelj, A. Elkiw, E, Ellls,
L. Hull, D. Paisley, &, Sto-
Domingo, S. Sutherland, R,
Sutherland,

20-year award: Panny
Parvalnen

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