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TERRACE HERALD,

TERRACE, B.C.

Herald

SPORTS

BY MARK HAMILTON

B.C. Recreation Association's
biggest problem is geography,
says newly elected president

community experts.
Mr. W.L. Wescott a

Telephones key to
distance problem

Youth

Bert Linder.

Linder told delegates at the
B.C. Recreation Conference in
Kitimat that he intends to speed
up policy-making decisions

among executives by using
telephone conferences,

Lindner also told the |
conference tha! the Association
must establish a recreation |
image and then go out andsell it !
to the community. I

Delegates. voted to open |
membership in the group to |
students, al a fee of $2 a year. |

The conference, held last |
weekend in Kitimat, was co- '
hosted by the District of Kitimat |
and the B.C. Recreation |
Association. !

Elite Benefit

The conference's key-note |
speaker stated that the |
members of communities that
are now receiving most of the
henefits of a recreational - ;
program are anelite group who |
are best equipped to make wise |
of their leisure time with or
without the help of trained |
Recreationalists,

Noting that this elite force |
was only a small part of the ;
total population Larry Berges |
urged the Association to learn |
the needs of the recreationally |
deprived and then satisfy these |
needs within the province, i

Beres also stated that a time
has come for a re-appraisal of |
the Community Recreation |
programs with a view of
directing these programs at the
community as a whole,

Provincial Government

This statement came during a
discussion that also saw Jim
Fanton the Director of the
Community Recreation Board,
outline the provincial
government's plans amd
proposals for the current year
in regards to recreation.

One idea is Reach, a program
that will help people involved in
recreational activity will help
invelve others from the
community on an
organizational basis.

The provincial government is
expected to make a formal
announcement concerning
Reach, later this year.

fanton also spoke on federal
involvement in a recreation
program and advised the
delegates of a National study, in
June of recreational facilities.
Fitness Awards ‘
Also up coming from the
provincial government will be a
Centennial ‘71 Fitness Program
under which awards will be
piven to any resident of the
province over 17 years of age
who completes a specified
program of athletic tests before
the end of 1971.

Seminars Held
The delegates also took part
in seminars with out-side

Speed limit
enforced

The Terrace RCMP
Detachment has issued a
warning lo all motorists
traveling along grave! roads:
adhere to the posted maximum
speed limit of 20 miles per hour,

Due lo increasing complaints
from residents of speeders
“dusting along” dry gravel
roads, traffic patrals have been
stepped up.

An RCMP spokesman said:
“Most drivers are actually not -
going any faster than before but
dust on non-paved streets :
makes il appear thal drivers |
are going faster than before.” :

_A speeding conviction costs a +
driver three points out of ten |
allowed on a drivers licence
before it is. suspended for a ,
minimum period of one month.

’The Speed Limit for gravel
roads throughout Terrace is 20
mph and 30 mph on paved
streets, : :

. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Country music star Roy Clark is
undergoing a series of tests in
the-intensive care unit at Bap-
Ust Hospital,

Clark, -37, the pudgy guitar-
picking star ‘of CBS-TV’s Hee
Haw,’ was admitted to hospital
with chest pains Tuesday night,

“His” plysician,: Dr. - William
Ewers, did not rule out the pos-
sibility. that Clark may have
suffered a heart attack, but said
‘preliminary examinations indi-
cated the entertainer was suf-
fering: frova, exhaustion... :

' use today, according to Wecott
‘ were the solvents, such as glue

| today
: elementary school children in

' Much greater than it had ever

_ association and psychologists
! should work closer together to

: depression, a depression that

: didn’t

Officer with the Burnaby School
Board spoke on “Drugs in
Society Today”.

Wescott outlined the various
drugs in use by society today
and the problems these drugs
afford their users,

The most dangerous drug in

and finger nail polish remover,
which are inhaled.

Wescott also noted that the
entire spectrum of drugs in use
ate available to

the Lower mainland.

Mental Strain Up

Sam Travers of the Skeena
Health Unit talked to the
conference’s delegates and
informed them that the mental
strain on Canadians is six times
frealer than it was on their
forefathers and that the need
for recreational proprams was

been.
Travers urged that in the
future the recreation

develop and to prevent reactive

caused 12 suicides last year in a
community that only had 75
citizens.

Travers noted ‘‘Recreational
programs are being planned for
these small communities at the
present lime.”

Northern communities
because of their isolation are
the centers in our province that
heed these programs and would
best benefit from their
establishment, the ‘health
officer also suggested abstract
thought games.

Mr, Bill Dickerson a
community psycholigist
advised the conference that the
recrealional. ..programs
available to young adults were
not necessarily the ones they
wanted,

Heremarked upon the need of
young persons, over the age of
fifteen for abstract thought
games.

partial remedy
Dickerson suggested that
creativity and intellectual
laying wouid be more satisfying
to older teenagers than the
conventiona] kind of recreation
programs.

AS .a

The executive committe
elected by the delegates include
Bert Linder, President and
directors Ernie Smith, H rold
Moist, Bill Webster, Pete
Fanning, Maybell Murphy.
Myrtle Saxton, Les Spooner and
Eric Granstorm.

The new exceutive committee of the B.C. Recreation
Commission were elected at last weekends annual meeting held
in Kitimat, The new executive council from left to right Ernie
Smith, Abbotsford; Harold Moist, the past-president from
Vancouver; Bill Webster of Surrey; Terrace’s Pete Fanning;

Mrs, Maybell Murphy frem Courtney, Mrs, Myrtle Saxten of
Vancouver Island: Lee Spooner, Delia; Eric Granstorm,
Koolenay West; and the new president Bert Linder from

Merritt,

Members and guests enjoyed
the hockey telecast -
companionship and steaks at

the Tuesday night Hockey Get- |.

Together, There. were a few
disappointed Chicago fans,

Wednesday night -is men's
night with good food and fun on
the menu. Let’s see more of you
fellows out on Wednesday
nights. Games are replayed
after 9 in the' clubhouse.

Thursday night is Ladies
night and we would like to see
more ladies out for free galf

- Small competitions will be set
up every second week between |

got out for the first time this
week, tried the bar stool, and
believe it makes, sense,

Junior Golf Program - June
ist is registration and. the
beginning of our Junior Golf
Program for juniors ages 12-18.
This will be a complete
program including golf lessons,
golf etiquette and the rules and
regulations of tournament play.

juniors and seniors. Gerry

Martin and Bill Laplante will }

THURSDAY, MAY ache :

The PRO’S NEST.

by Vi: Mckinnon

lessons under the instruction of

supervise the juniors. Parents --
Golf Pro Bill Laplante, Last

here is an excelient opportunity

week he taught us how to drive | to introduce GOLF to your
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Phone 635-2542.

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The regular meeting of the :
Terrace Committee of the B.C,
Festival of Sports was held
Tuesday, May 4lh at the Civic
Center. Organizers of Festival
sporting events reported on the
dates of the events,

A new event has been added
to the Festival of Sports; Mr.
Gary Symthe of the Terrace
Rod and Gun Club announced a
shoot on the 24th of this month
at the Gun Club in the Thornhill
area.

There will be three classes alt
the shoot, Children’s 22, Adult's
rifle and trap shooting.

A track meet comprising
mostly the elementary school
students of the Terrace and
Kitimat area will be held June
12th.

The Judo club plans to enter a
float in the Elk's May Day:
Parade, May 24th,

. Award ‘presentations for Judo.
events will be.made May .22nd. .
Mr. Mailoux presented

results for the bowling.

The bowling event will be in
the form of a twenty game
marathon on the 23rd of this
month. Pete Fanning is
expected to present the awards
after the . completion of the
event.

The Truck Loggers Rodeo, to
be held May 22 and 23 al Lions
Park reported that
were going well, but so far there
was a lack of entries in the
event.

Doug Hartman reported that
entries for the trucking rodeo
can be made any time up lo the
17th at most of the business
firms displaying the Truck
Rodeo sign.

The awards for Loggers
Sports have been ordered.

Prize money for the axe

throwing event had been raised

because the event is a Canadian
Championship.

The cash prize from Terrace

Equipment for the top all-round

- logger has also been increased.

A committee head reported
that 13 teams have entered the
Atyansh All Native Soccer
Tournament. ;

The Committee voted to
accept the Regulations for
Application for Assistance from
The Terrace Athletic
Achievement Fund.

The Regulations provide for
financial aid to local athletes
who meet provincial standards,

The money would be used by
competitors to travel to
provincial championships.

August 6

The Canadian football season
opens on CBC television Friday,
August 6 this year when the
Toronto Argonauts meet the
Saskatchewan Roughriders at
CNE Stadium in Toronto. The
game will be seen live on the full
CBC-TV English Network.

A total of 17 CFL games will
be seen on CBC-TY this season
it was announced, including
playoffs and the Grey Cup
games November 28, All the
games will be telecast in color
and of the total, nine games will
be seen on the full CBC-TV
network. In addition, four
games will be seen by viewers
in Eastern Canada and four
games by Western viewers.

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make a quick decision when he
came face to face with the
biggest catch of his life—so he
jook the plunge. After realizing
that his line would break he §
dived in and grappled with a 19-
pound cod. But his wife Vera
lake well to her
husband’s style of fishing: J
‘When he came in dripping all
over the carpet I was furious.”

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