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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

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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 --- Have you checked your golf equipment and is if in good shape? [fnot, now is the time to do so; when the. Golf Season opens you don't want to waste time repairing broken equipment. Call Bill LaPlante at the Club and he will start you on your way to a Better Golf Season.

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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