Terrace Rotary decided to back ringette with a donation of $2,000 to the Northern B.C. Winter
Games Society. Rotary president John Jack presented Games representative Vern Ferguson with

the cheque last week.

Behind the scenes things
tense, determined for Games

by Betty Barton Securities is supplying the tele-
phone system." The Amateur
Communications Radio Club is providing operators

and radio communications from
the remote venue site at Shames
Mountain (downhill skiing) and
Onion Lake (cross-country skiing).
‘Sweeting is taking the last week
of January off work to concentrate
his efforts on coordinating the
whole communications network.

Gord Sweeting, communications
coordinator for the Northem B.C.
Winter Games in Terrace, says
"T's all working on paper. In ‘the
next week, we have to collect,
inventory and channel all the
equipment. We’ ll start to install the
equipment on Jan. 30. The control
centre will be fully operational by
Thursday, Jan. 31."

As one would expect, Sweeting,
a communications technician for
the R.C.MLP., knows a lot about
communications. He figures that
was why he was approached to
head this department for the North-
em B.C. Winter Games, "The only

thing. that was new to me was
telephone systems," he says. He
began organizing the communica-
tions department in June 1990 by
reading all the reports from the
eight previous Northern B.C. Win-
ter Games, sorted through their
recommendations, and added his
own ideas. "It’s involved lots of
meetings and telephoning," says
Sweeting.

The function of the communica-
tions department is to determine all
communications requirements —
remote, radio and telephone — for
the control centre at the arena, the
venues, and for the registration
centre at Thornhill Junior Second-
ary School, and to provide paging
for directors, the host committee
and departmental heads, explains
Sweeting. Secutity, administration,
first ald and transportation are the
four departments that have to be
linked constantly for the duration
of the Games to ensure everything
runs smoothly.

"We've begged, borrowed and
had generous donations of radios
from B.C. Forestry, Highways,
RCMP, EHS, A.G.K., B.C.
Hydro and B.C. Tel, Tolsec, Lock-

port, Amateur Radio Club and

Sight & Sound. Lockport

Transportation

"In the eleventh hour, it’s all
coming together,” says Bob Petras,
{ransportation coordinator for the
Northem B.C. Winter Games. The
job of his committee, which
includes assistant coordinator Al
Bishop and pool car coordinator
Bob Middleton, entails scheduling
all in-bound buses carrying athletes
and coaches from ail parts of the
region, storage of the buses in
secure compounds at Freightways,
Bandstra and Williams/Lindsay’s,
arranging courtesy vehicles, pool
cars, and buses from the control
centres to venues at Shames
Mountain (downhill skiing), Onion
Lake (cross-country skiing) and
Kitimat (volleyball, hockey, figure
skating and speed skating). "It's a
big operation," he states
emphatically.

The pool cars (four or five avail-
able at any time for the duration of
the Games) are being coordinated
by Bob Middleton, Middleton has
recruited many of the pool car
drivers through the Northwest
Loggers’ Association. The pool
cars are available to move officials
around from venue to venue, to
"so fer" stuff as required, and for
unplanned trips to or from a
venue.

The courtesy cars, available to
the regional directors, are being
donated during the Games by
Tilden and Budget rental cat
agencies. The billeting families are
also a critical part of the transpor-
tation operation. Although each

Bob Potras: Still need Class 1
and 2 drivers.

athlete will be given a complimen-
tary transit pass for the weekend,
the host families may be required
to get them to the control centre at
some time during the Games in
order for them to catch buses to
their venue.

The scheduling and the weather
are major factors in the success of
the transportation operation. One is
within the scope of the transporta-
tion committee; the other isn’t.
"There are so many variables,"
explains Petras, "Last week, I
presented a revised, revised,
revised standard version of the
plan to the Games committee".

Bob began coordinating transpor-
tation in February 1990. He has
worked in close co-operation with
the control centre and the events
committees. Bach driver will com-
municate with the control centre.
Pool cars will be dispatched
through the control centre. Some
will be radio controlled, Others
will check into the control centre
for assignments. "This is my criti-
cal month,” says Bob.

"Our biggest concern is the avail-
ability of fully qualified drivers.
We still need drivers with current
Class 1 or 2 driver’s licenses," he
says. Call Bob Petras at 635-2810
or 635-7316 or Glenn Thomsen at
635-2268 to volunteer.

Feb. 1,2,3* 1991 * TERRACE
The clock’s running

Northern B.C. Winter Games will be arriving
places to billet some of our young athletic guests. If you have not as
yet offered your home, phone the Winter Games office at 635-1991

right now. They need you.

them.

by Mary Ann
Burdett

with eight days left

COUNTDOWN — In only eight days the participants of the
and we still need

Your home does not have to be elaborate or palatial — your

guests will bring their own sleeping bags and foamies. Transporta-
tion will not be a problem as they will be receiving free transit passes
for the weekend. It will be very little inconvenience to you and could
be a great deal of fun, so pick up that phone and dial. If you have
already offered to take billets and have not been contacted by the
Winter Games office with confirmation, please call them as soon as
possible — remember that number is 635-1991. Absolute confirma-
tion of billets and their approximate arrival time on the 31st should

be forthcoming by mail the week of Jan. 28.

Once again, if you don’t hear from the Games office — you call

Terrace athletes are reminded that they must register for the

Games at Thornhill Junior Secondary School on Jan. 31 between
the hours of four and five p.m.

There is still a need for more volunteers in several areas, with

First Aid and Security being two of the priorities. Can you spare a
few hours? Every little bit helps. Just call that Games office and
give them your name as another community-spirited Terrace person
—_ it’s coming fast, let's “Catch the Skeena Spirit”.

When we think about the Northern Winter Games, its activities
and participants, we tend to think in terms of the young in years,
but there is one event in which the participants lean towards being,
rather than young in years, young at heart. The event is, of course,
the one which will take place in the ‘‘Happy Gang Centre”’ on
Kalum Street and which will have the interest and attention of

many.
It is

CARPET BOWLING |7%.

There are three provincially accepted carpets set up in the base-
ment of the centre and all the necessary equipment required to carry
out the hosting of the carpet bowlers. There are duly qualified
referees ready to make the decisions and a group of seniors who are
ready, willing and able to see that the contenders receive the
warmest of hospitality.

Carpet bowling calls for skill, strategy and self-control, It is a fist
of temper and a trial of honour. Carpet bowling promotes physical
health and gives opportunities for companionship. It is a game well
suited to people into their most senior years. It has many similarities
to regular bowling, or could be said to be lawn bowling moved in-
doors. Whatever the description you might apply to the activity, it
provides many hours of pleasure and competition to those involved

and will be an interesting part of the upcoming Northern B.C.

Winter Games.
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For a younger group

GYMNASTICS

will be the centre of their interests. For these Winter Games there
will be four categories of eligibility — Midgets, nine years old;
Argos, 10 and 11 years old; Tyros, 12 and 13 years old; and Open,
14 years and up.

In this event one will witness great shows of strength, grace and
artistic impressions, To excel in this most pleasurable event for
spectators, the contender must have great determination and must
have devoted many hours to tedious repetitive practice which, in the
end, grants contender and spectator alike much enjoyment and
great satisfaction.

It will be with the utmost of interest and enjoyment that we will
be atteriding the events for the young and for the young at heart.
Hey, Terrace, see you at the venues on the fast approaching first

weekend of February.

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