f _ | TERRACE-KITIMAT | : . ie CF SECOND SECTION. Disco dancer struts stuff TORONTO (CP) — The road to the top hasn't been easy for disco dancer Leslie Wiseman. But it will take Lay ety rating er from s rt stuff in New York’s famous Studio 54 club. Miss Wiseman and disco partner Nabeel Abunassar, both from Mississauga, Ont., boogied their way to a free weekend in the Big Apple by taking top prize at a Toronto disco con ; Miss W aan broke her rib during one of their dances just two weeks before the contest. “Nabeel was lifting me up on my back but I landed fairly heavily on __ his shoulder,” she recall. “I- was still in some pain when . the big test came so 1 had to have my back frozen so [ wouldn't feel any pain.” Miss Wiseman says that _@ace the music began, she didn’t even think of her rib and core. back: Abunassar “prevent ‘hps partner from feeling the music. : “Even with the bad back we stuck to our regular “pal didn't . routine, tricky steps, and just h that she wouldn’t get hurt,”’. he says. . The couple, both 16, practised thelr disco steps “about. three hreo days each week. Wiseman’s basement we they had only two months to pelish their act. They competed against the best two couples from five Toronto discos, dancing three rounds before five judges. Abunassar says he ‘and Miss Wiseman didn’t think they stood a chance of winning because, in addition to his, partner’s injury, the other couples had been dancing together for years. But when the lights died down and the music stopped, the Missiasauga couple was . No. 1, earning them the New York trip and $150.in spen- ‘ding money. . They will stride into the Tov i} studded Stu 0 64.4 firat weekend: in uly. Abunassar is hoping it will | &; provide the break he has’ been looking for. COME STAY WITH US _@t ENGLISH BAY near STANLEY PARK in beautiful downtown VANCOUVER ; TOLL-FREE 800-268-8993 1785 DAVIE STREET VANCOUVER &.C. V6G 1W5 TELEPHONE (604) 682-1831 won. veneer Jo goo od cidokickicticik Pee Hidden somewhere in the ‘paper are two Terrace phone numbers, Find them, andif one is yours you've Pick up your tickets at the Herald office, 3212 Kalum St. ¥ 4028 Hwy, 16 W. 7 SN Terrace = 35-9151 Including bome t at.the oe. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — “vo Californians who met -two months ago are on their >way around the world in a - kayak. They said the journey ) = ‘which began in Portland . this week ~~ will take seven - to. “years. . Sopbla Anne (Sam) Merk, 32, met 42-year-old David Wilson while filling his car's gas tark ata station in Death * Valley, Tuesday they headed ‘down the Columbia River in ‘a 12-foot vinyl-covered ” kayak, , ' ’ Their short-term destinations were the Pacific Ocean and, in six months, .the Panama Canal. Wilsca is no newcomer to kayak and canoe travel. He ‘and. two others made a 2 1-2- year voyage from Houston to Montreal. Wilson arrived in time for the 1978 Olympics and was a house guest of another avid canceist, then- Prime Minister Trudeau. ‘After the trip, the Los . jornd the world | Angeles native decided not o return to his. career as a photojournalist, So he planned his mare ambitious journey. He needed a second kayaker who weighed less than 105 pounds and Ms. Merk fit perfectly into his plans, “I needed a survivor, a special brand of person,” Wilson said. "And when you meet a survivor, you can always tell by thelr eyes.” After the pair reach Panama, they plan to head up the Bast Coast to Nova Scotia, They will fly their kayak to England, then paddle across the Engligh Channel, down numerous Eurepean rivers to the Black “Then they intend to paas through the Suez Canal, travel around India and up the China coast to the Soviet Union, across the Bering Strait to Alaska, and finally back to Portland. a ’ The old d Highway 16 Copper | River Bridge is still there but not for walks | Phato by Brian Grepo Hiking is their hobby . CALGARY (CP) — Jules and Lindsay Holt of Victoria, B.C., have found a hobby that ‘suits them fine i in their retirement years. , It's hiking, jogging, walking and backpacking in’ Western Canada and it has taken them over’ 41,150 Kilometres of terrain in the last 11 years, They've been on the read since the first of April this year and by the time they finish thelr jaunt through Kootenay, Banif and. Yoho National Parks and then over the Rogers Pass, they will have coyered another 1,600 kilome “Our relatives and friends think we're crazy,’ says Holt. “But unless people have done some hiking, you just . can't explain the exhilaration and sense of accomplishment to be de- rived from walking,”’ He took an early relirement from a Winnipeg ‘department store several years ago, and he and his wife moved to Victoria. Holt always had been interested in sports and. fitness and.used to play foothall for the Regina Roughriders in 146. When the Holts lived in Winnipeg, he was on the executive of the Blue Bombers, “We took up hiking and backpacking P bout + eight years ago,” he says, “We snow-shoe in -winter."* Mrs. Holt, a sprite woman whose lively face is smoothly tanned, says that they travel lightly. They each have a down- filled sleeping bag and vamp overnight in a free-standing dome tent. 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