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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

in Vancouver reception

BY MARK HAMILTON

Three of the Terrace
Centennial Roadrunners said
they were disappointed at the
reception they received in
Vancouver when their relay
race ended last Friday.

Murray Hamer, Gerry
Piesche and his brother Ralph,
all students at Caledonia
Secondary School, said that less
than a dozen people were on
hand to welcome them in
Vancouver at the end of the
race.

The boys said that the small
crowd confirmed their general
feeling that somewhere,
someone had got crossed up and
people just didn’! know what
was happening.

But the boys added that their
disappointment was secondary
to their feelings of elation at
having reached the terminal
point of their run,

The relay race had started for
Murray, Gerry and Ralph in
January this year when the run
was first announced, All three
were interested in track and
field and cross-country running,
and they thought an 80)-mile
relay race would be fun.-

They ran in mile shifts, with
each boy running about twenty
miles in total, and their major
complaint was the pace of the
miles. The time for each mile
had been set al nine minutes, a
pace the boys found slow.

Each of the runners was
capable of the six minute mile
and the transistion to a slow
mile was difficult.

Besides the miles they had to
run the boys often ran on their
own, mostly for something to

lo.

The boys also said they would
have liked to stay longer in the
communities they passed
through. and a longer stay in

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Vancouver would have been
appreciated.

But there were two things that
made the run worthwhile.
First, beautiful country and
secondly, the support given to
them by the p eople of Terrace.

The boys had felt forgotten
when they reached Vancouver
and there were only a handful of
people to gree them, but felt
betler when they were
presented with the telegram
signed by 500 Terrace residents,

Another thing that kept their
moral at a fairly high level
while on the road was the
publicity they received in most
of the population centers they
passed through.

The boys met some troubles
onthe way. Other than the bull
and the bat incident and the

freak snow storm in the Interior:

the boys felt “really lonely”
running in the early hours of the
morning.

There were some incidents of

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cafs taunting the boys trytng to
get them to speed up but on the
whole the boys described the
drivers of scars as
“encouraging”.

The runners I talked to
thought that though motorists
along the route didn’t know
exactly what was going on they
knew that something was
happening and they offered
encouragement.

What did the runners think
about while they were running?

Sometimes, the boys thought
about getting back on the bus
where it was warm but most of
the time their thoughts were on
the time they had taken so far.

Life on the bus for the five and
a half days was, for the most
part, friendly and happy.

There were some peity
hassles and arguments but no
major eruptions.

The first three days of the trip
proved exciting but after that
things settled down, mostly
because the runners were
getting tired.

Most of the runners slept on
the return trip.

There were topics the boys
discussed on the bus that kept
them from boredom; for
example the NHL Stanley Cur
Play-offs and sports activities.

Rod Smith

On their arrival home most ol
the boys crawled! into bed for
some sweet sieep. There was ne
school for the weary joggers on
Monday.

As well as the B.C. Centennial

medallions presented to the .

runners in Vancouver the
Roadrunners were awarded
other momentos of their run in
various communities along the
route.

They received a bottle of
locally mined Molyibdumim,
Quesnel silver dollars and
Centennial scrolls in Quesnel
and postcards from a
Testaurant

The Piesche Brothers also
play in the school band and are
maintaining good marks in
their studies,

When asked how they fit
everything into a twenty-four
hour day, the boys said the
whole thing revolved around
will-power and concentration.

Concentration proved to be a
big factor in the running itself
as the boys found it easier to run
a six minute mile but were
running or trying to run nine
minute miles. .

‘The wip was slow, whether
the boys were running or riding
on the bus and while this had its
draw-backs they felt they got
more out of the run at such a
slow pace.

They grew loappreciale more
and more the physical
characteristics of B.C. from the
towering mountains in the
Fraser Valley to the flal dry
land of the Interior around
Cache Creek.

The tension built up in the
boys all ihe way down to

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Vancouver but tempers were
kept in check and numerous
practical jokes kept the pace
easy-going when the tension had
grown too much.

One of the boys told of a
pracital joke he played on a
number of people.

‘He was running through the
Cache Creek area where, it had
been noted, there were rattle-
snakes.,

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Jim Leaviit

The Terrace Badminton Club
overcame a strong challenge
from their Kitimat counterparts
last weekend to retain the Inter-
City Badminton championship
for the third year running.

The Kitimat club fielded
strong opposition in the annual

event bul the depth of the local

team proved to be too much for
them. ,
The Smallenberg doubles
team from Kitimat almost
proved the tocals un-doing but
the Terrace squad fought back
after Ernie and Linda

Smallenberg had downed .the
local mixed doubles,

__ The season winds up for the
Terrace club this weekend. with
their annual wrap-up. .

Gordon Clent, president of the
local club, indicated that a large
delegation of players is
expected for the match this
weekend.

About one hundred players
are expected to represent
Prince Rupert, Smithers,
Kitimat, Hazelton, the Queen

Charlottes and Prince George. 'B@
* The iacals expect another jim
Terrace domination of the event
but they will be hard pressed fo

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Play gets underway this
Saturday morning at 9.a.m. at
the Skeena Secondary Schhol jm
gymnasium and is expected to

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Hank Tashout

He picked up a broken piece
of fan belt off the road and when
his shift was over scared
numerous peaple with his
improvised “rattle snake”,

The first few moments of
running through the night
always proved to bea matter of
concern lo the boys but they
drew added security from the
pick-up car which trailed each
runner as they jogged through
B.C.

When asked if they would do it
all over again the boys said yes
only this time the run would be

The PRO’s nest

BY VE MCKINNON |

From the Thornhill Golf &
Country Club

An Executive Meeting was
held at the Thornhill Golf &
Country Club on Monday, April
19th. Plans were made for the
coming SKEENA VALLEY
OPEN to be held on the long
weekend of May 24th, 1971. This
will be one of the finest
Tourneys ever held in the
Northwest area, and is
advertised through the Festival
of Sports. Outside entries will
be plentiful so local golfers
should register early.

The golf course js coming
along nicely, Work on the
course is progressing well and
Bill La Plante has started to do
some cleating which will make
for better golfing conditions, It
won't be long before you can get
out and get rid ofall those
winter frustrations.

A pre-golf party will be at the
saturday, may Ist at 8 p.m., sa
let's partake of some of that
“May Day Madness” and come’
out and shed a litlle skin at the
dance. All members, friends
and future club members are

faster with longer stops and less
people to crowd the busses

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Gerry Piesche -

Fees are set
for campers

An overnight camping fee of
$2.00 (twa dollars) for
accommodation in 56 provincial
park campgrounds 1s an-
nounced by the Honourable
W.K. Kiernan, Minister of
Recreation and Conservation.

The camping fee will be.
collected between May. 16 and...
September 11 inclusive in parks
having @ full time attendant, a
minimum of thirty campsites,
and a good water supply. Forty-
seven other parks with
developed campgrounds will
not be subject to the camping
charge.

he occupancy limit of 14

days in provincial park
campgrounds remains
unchanged. «

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK ---
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equipment and is if in good
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CENTENNIAL MEMO - In 1872
British Columbia's 25 school
districts had a total enrolment
of 1,028 with an average daily
attendance of only 575 or 55.9
percent.

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