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SPECIAL TORCH RELAY ISSUE
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• Torch map & events you
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• Our Olympian: Amy Gough
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Upfront❭❭ O P I N I O N 10 • L E T T E R S 11 • C L A S S I F I E D S 41 • ❭❭
Hosting the Winter Olym-pics a few miles from our own green grounds is
more than an event we’ll likely remember . . . it’s a time we’ll never forget.
So with that distinction we proudly provide this very special edition of the Abbotsford & Mis-sion Times.
Inside you’ll discover stories on where to find the torch, what
our city has planned for its arrival, and even accounts about the people proudly holding it high.
Global by definition and national by design, the Olym-pic Games truly break down to embracing one concept: com-munity.
To the International Olympic Committee, it’s the notion of a global village. To me and hope-
fully many of you, it’s about having something to share – something we collectively call our own.
Here in Abbotsford and Mis-sion we’ll benefit from the experience more than almost anywhere, because it’s here in this wonderful melting pot that hardly an athlete will compete without the not-so-far away cheers of support from some
Abbotsford living room.Likewise, holler in your house
with the window slid open and expect to hear more of the same from your neighbour. Maybe you’ll watch together, maybe it’s something finally worth talking about over the fence together.
Organizers say Sunday’s Olym-pic torch welcoming inside Rotary Stadium could be the venue’s single largest gathering
to date. Imagine: friends, fami-lies, teammates, strangers, new and old. How many generations? How many backgrounds?
How can we not be excited about something that brings us together?
Whether or not you agree with the politics of the Games isn’t the point. If it’s support you want for each other despite social standing, then support all classes during these times of togetherness.
Whether or not the Games will provide long-term monetary gains is years from being known. For now, speak freely, but please speak respectfully.
We are, after all, hosting the world.
It’s ours to hold highOnce-in-a-lifetime doesn’t happen every day
DARRENMCDONALD
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CHRISTINA TOTH
Abbotsford is throwing a par-ty on Sunday evening and you’re invited.
The city, in collaboration with the Abbotsford Spirit of B.C. office and VANOC’s Olympic torch relay
organizers, will host events starting at the Abbotsford Recreation Cen-tre LiveSite, along the torch relay route and the big finale at the city’s Rotary Stadium at Exhibition Park. The events continue very early the next morning in Mission—for route updates visit www.vancouver2010.com.
As one of the 189 official celebra-tion sites along the Olympic torch tour, Abbotsford will host the full VANOC Olympic torch relay perfor-mance, said Christine Wiebe, chair-woman of the Abbotsford Spirit of B.C., which promotes the 2010 Olympics locally.
VANOC brings its own program and performers to Rotary Stadium, where the program will include local performers, speakers and of course,
the entry of the torch and a ceremo-nial lighting of the cauldron.
“It’s absolutely top entertainment. What the torch relay brings with them has been compared to Cirque de Soleil,” said Wiebe.
All the events are family friendly and she encourages everyone to come out to the Sunday evening show at Rotary Stadium.
“I’ve never seen anything in Can-ada bring people together in such a positive way as this,” said Wiebe, who carried the torch last week in Sicamous.
“Everybody should wear their red and white. It will be full of commu-nity spirit and Olympic spirit,” said
Wiebe, who will be escorting the Olympic mascots Miga and Quatchi at the stadium.
The day will be packed with events to make for an exciting day, say organizers.
A community barbecue along with the Russian Olympic figure skaters starts at 2:30 p.m. at the Abbotsford Recreation Centre. The torch enters Abbotsford at What-com Road at 4 p.m. and makes its way through the city over the next few hours.
Entertainment begins at the Cel-ebration Site at Exhibition Park at 5:45 p.m., with VANOC’s pre-event and a First Nations welcome.
At 6:10 p.m., Abbotsford will host Different Drum, a fusion dance piece choreographed by Lee Kwid-zinski that features the Fraser Val-ley’s Good Medicine Dancers and Abbotsford’s Sada Virsa Sada Guarav Bhangra Club.
This cross-cultural project show-cases their dance traditions per-formed to digitally looped music by cellist Cris Derksen. The project is co-ordinated by The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford.
More VANOC performances follow. At 7 p.m., Abbotsford’s renowned Sabir Sisters will perform their lively Celtic fiddle pieces.
Dozens of local athletic teams will
line the entrance into the stadiumto welcome the torch, which will becarried by longtime Abbotsford Roy-als coach, Gerry Swan, for whom the track is named. Bring hankies.
A 92-member children’s choir from Sandy Hill elementary schoolwill ring out the national anthem.
At 7:30 p.m. local dignities willaddress the gathering. Then at7:45 p.m., the colourful Hannah &The Inukshuks will steal hearts as they perform. Local dancer Han-nah Celinski choreographed the13 adorable Inukshuks, while TimBarrett of Nuu Music has written an original song called With GlowingHearts, for Abbotsford’s young sing-ing sensation Victoria Duffield.
The group will be seen through-out the Lower Mainland and Van-couver area before and during the Olympics. VANOC will close the evening by 8 p.m.
Bright and early for MissionVANOC’s CEO John Furlong will be
at Mission’s Olympic torch welcome,which starts at 5 a.m. downtown onMonday, with a free breakfast andperformances by Hatzic Secondaryand Mission Secondary schools.
Joining Furlong will be Missionresident Darlene Poole, the widowof Jack Poole, chairman of the 2010Olympic organizing committee whois credited with bringing the Games to Vancouver.
Other guests include politiciansand past Mission Olympians.
Carly Rae Jepsen sings at 5:40 a.m. and the torch arrives fromthe municipal hall at 6 a.m. Mayor James Atebe will declare Feb. 8 asJack Poole Day in Mission.
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A4 ❘ ATHLETES ❘ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THE TIMES
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Getting the skinny on Abbotsford’s Olympic skeleton racer
CAM TUCKER
Alanna Handley has seen many changes in her life.
The obvious being that her maiden name of Kraus has changed to Handley, so the former Matsqui Blades speedskater won’t mind if local Olympic short track speed skating fans do a double take.
But there are still at least two things that
will never change: the thrill of competing for her country in two Winter Olympics and the jubilant experience of winning not one, but two medals, one in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, Utah and another in the 2006 Games in Torino, Italy.
Simply put, it was “amazing,” Handley said from Calgary, where she now calls home.
“It was pretty exciting. It’s something to be said to realize that you’ve accomplished your goals.”
And just getting to the Olympic Games was the first part of her excitement.
A bronze medal for Canada in the womens 3000m relay in 2002 followed by a silver in the same event in 2006 were the highlights of a career laden with hardware.
“It’s an experience that feels out of body,” she said. “You always dream of doing that and then to actually be there and accomplish it is quite amazing. Time just kind of slows down and you can really appreciate the moment.”
Handley retired from the national speed-skating team in 2008 despite the lure of the 2010 Winter Games being on home soil, but she did have some tips for those who will go up against the world’s best in a week’s time.
Speaking from experienceOlympic medalist and former Matsqui Blade offers advice for Gough and Canada’s other hopefuls
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CAM TUCKER
To say it’s been a long sea-son for Amy Gough would be an understatement. The
Canadian Olympic skeleton team member and former graduate of Abbotsford Senior Secondary has seen it all this year.
Everything from controversy to a rampant flu bug that whipped through the Canadian womens skeleton team earlier this winter, to the pressure of trying to make the Olympic team with the big party
in her own backyard put the ex-rugby player on ice as the Games approached.
It wasn’t until a second place fin-ish at an Intercontinental Cup race in Calgary less than a month ago that Gough’s 2010 Olympic dream-became a reality.
After all that, she will now find herself on the top of the grandest stage in winter sports, along with all the best, looking down at the fastest chute of ice the world has ever seen.
“It feels great,” Gough said on Wednesday, adding the finishing
construction touches to venuessuch as the medal podium were giving Whistler more of an Olym-pic feel.
“I’m getting more and more anx-ious now for the competition tostart.”
Gough has been living in the ath-letes village for the better part ofa week now and it’s been a wholenew experience for the athletes,fans, tourists and residents as theymesh together.
– FILE/TIMES
Speedskater Alanna (Kraus) Handley, left, cel-ebrates her silver medal with her team in ‘06.
see GOUGH, page A8
see SPEED, page A8
– PHOTOS SUBMITTED BY AMY GOUGH/FOR THE TIMES
Abbotsford’s Amy Gough isn’t a stretch to claim a medal in the women’s skeleton competition.
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THE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 ❘ TORCH ❘ A5
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After 22 years of trying tobe selected to carry an
Olympic torch, Abbotsford teacher Dan Pederson willfinally get to carry the nobleflame on Feb. 8 in Maple Ridge.
Judging by the volume ofOlympic spirit he exudesand the volunteer time he’salready put into helping Van-couver capture the Games,he’s earned it. Pedersontaught in Abbotsford for 20 years, and now teaches Grade 7 at Eugene Reimer Middle School.
“This was very exciting newsfor me as I have been a fan ofthe Olympics for many years.I have collected Olympic pinssince the first Games I attend-ed in Los Angeles in 1984. Ispent three weeks in Calgaryin 1988 attending events suchas the opening ceremonies, hockey games [including the gold medal game], ski jump-ing and skiing.
22-yearwait for torch run
CHRISTINA TOTH
Kiya Posthumus isn’t going to let a small thing like broken pelvic bones, internal bruising and a head injury keep her from
taking her place in Olympic history.She’s determined to carry the 2010 Winter Olym-
pic torch along her assigned route in Maple Ridge on Monday morning, despite being in a horrible accident last month. She’ll be rolling along in a wheelchair, not running, but she’ll be there.
Her Abbotsford Royals track coach, Susan North-ey, will be behind her chair.
“I’m pretty excited now that it’s coming closer. I know I’m actually going to be part of the Olym-pics,” Kiya said Thursday.
It was something that almost didn’t happen.The 17-year-old track athlete who attends
Rick Hansen Secondary was on an early morn-ing run on Jan. 25, along Downes Road near her Abbotsford home, when she was struck by a car.
Her mother Maria began to wonder why her daughter was taking so long when police sirens and a helicopter up the road caught her attention. With her heart in her throat, she hoped it had nothing to do with Kiya.
Posthumus made it to the intersection in time to
see a helicopter heading to the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster with her daughter inside.
“It’s a miracle that she’s alive, when you see how far she was thrown,” said Posthumus. The family
had already suffered an unimaginable loss four years ago, when their robust son Sam succumbed to a heart condition at the age of 16, while playing rugby at Rick Hansen Secondary school.
“I didn’t think the Lord would be that cruel to take away two children,” said Posthumus.
However, despite her serious injuries, Kiya has gone through a remarkable recovery, she said Wednesday, the day she brought her daughter home from the hospital.
“You should see her now, it hardly looks like anything happened to her. It looks like she’ll have no lasting ramifications. We’re very, very thankful,” said Posthumus. Kiya will likely be in a wheelchair for the next eight weeks.
“She’s determined. She let us know just yes-terday that she wants to go,” said her mom. She attributes Kiya’s strong recovery in part to her youth and strength, but also the positive outlook shared by their tight-knit family.
“People should try to stay positive and optimis-tic. We all have suffering, but you stay positive and happy, and you work hard,” said Posthumus.
Getting hit by car won’t stop herStill carrying torch that classmates now want to buy for her
– JEAN KONDA-WITTE/TIMES
Ready to roll, Kiya Posthumus won’t let a near-fatal collision keep her from carrying the torch.
“It’s a miracle that she’s alive, when you see how far she was thrown.”
– Maria Posthumus Kiya’s mom
see STRENGTH, page A15 see WAIT, page A33
Abbotsford is proud to salute it’s own Olympian,
Amy Gough.Eh-Oh! Canada Go!
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– JEAN KONDA-WITTE/TIMES
Ashley Topnik, a Grade 12 student at W.J. Mouat Secondary, is geared up for her Olympic moment, as she is set to carry the torch on Sunday morning in Princeton. Her family and friends will be there to cheer her on.
JEAN KONDA-WITTE
W. J. Mouat student Ash-ley Topnik, 17, had no idea she was apply-
ing for the Olympic torch relay when she checked out a website last summer to try to get spon-sorship money for her school’s wrestling team.
“I was so surprised. I didn’t even know I was signed up to carry the torch,” she said after being notified at the end of the summer. “I had no idea what they were talking about.”
The Sogo website was spon-sored by Coca Cola, and Topnik, a provincial wrestling champion, was selected for being a physi-cally active teen who exemplifies a healthy lifestyle.
In her fifth year of wrestling for Mouat, the Grade 12 student trains five days a week and runs track for her cardio workout.
That will put her in good stead as she carries her torch the 300
metres in Princeton in the wee hours this Sunday.
“I’ve done relays in track so it’s kind of the same,” she said, add-ing she’s not too worried about the handoff.
Topnik is no stranger to the excitement of large sporting events. She was part of Team BC at the Canada Summer Games
in P.E.I. where she placed fifth. She will again be competing for Mouat in the wrestling provincial championships in Abbotsford this March.
And she was chosen to carry the team placard for the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Para-lympic Games in Vancouver.
After it was announced that
she would be carrying the Olym-pic torch (the only W.J.M. student to do so) many of her friends and classmates wanted her auto-graph she said.
“It’s so cool . . . it’s like I’m a celebrity.”
◗Topnik’s torch run will be at 8:05 a.m. on Sunday in Princeton.
Wrestler runs as an exampleTeen Topnik floored after she’s tagged for torch
Students and staff at Blue Jay elemen-tary school are taking full advantage of
the Games, both in and out of the class-room.
Grade five teacher Becky Wyse will proudly carry the torch and representBlue Jay on Feb. 8 in Langley.
Her class of Grade 5 students will be catching the excitement and cheering heron from the sidelines, while the rest ofthe school watches the emotional eventvia live video feed on a giant screen inthe gym.
Other Olympic activities planned at BlueJay include a re-creation of the openingand closing ceremonies featuring the official Olympic torch, where studentscan interact with and absorb the spirit ofthe Games. There will also be a full day ofOlympic stations for students to exploreand participate in different aspects of theGames—including the history, sportingevents, and symbols of the Games as wellas spotlighting Canadian athletes.
Building on the students’ enthusiasm,individual teachers will be focusing on integrating Olympic learning into theirdaily curriculums. Using technology inthe classroom, students will monitor the ongoing success of the Canadian andinternational athletes.
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CHRISTINA TOTH
Rob Quiring got an extra kiss from Lady Luck last year – not only did he get picked to carry the Olympic torch, he
gets to do it in his own home community.The structural engineer from Abbotsford
said he entered two contests, one from the Royal Bank of Canada, and one from Coca Cola, and he won the Coke contest. He was asked to pick his three preferred spots and one was Abbotsford.
So on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. he’ll be running the leg from Everett Street down the hill along Marshall Road.
“I guess it just hap-pened by luck. It’s only a kilometre from my house,” said Quiring.
However the oppor-tunity came his way, Quiring is thrilled to be able to carry the torch. There are way too many naysayers criticizing the Games, he said, but for him, carrying the flame and being part of the national relay is the next best thing to being in the Olympics itself.
While he skis summer and winter, and is an avid runner who completes a half-marathon
once a year, he doesn’t consider himself really athletic.
“I thought if I can’t compete I might as well run with the torch. It’s also a way to show your pride – that little torch creates a lot of buzz wherever it goes. I
thought it would be fun to be part of that, to show my spirit,” he said.
Quiring is a hometown boy, having gradu-ated from the Mennonite Educational Insti-tute in 1986. His company, IQ Engineering, is marking its tenth anniversary this year.
The father of two little girls gives back tohis community by participating as a boarddirector with Run for Water Abbotsford, anon-profit event that raises funds for cleanwater projects in Ethiopia with an annual fundraising race, which will be May 30 thisyear.
His wife is notifying everyone they knowthrough Facebook, and Quiring expects to see his sisters and other family cheering himalong the route.
As the day draws closer, he admits he’s getting more and more excited.
“Yes, it’s a big entourage and for two min-utes the spotlight is on you. I just hope I don’t trip!”
Quiring engineers his own home run
The massive collection of the different groups of people has certainly brought about some funny moments, said Gough.
“We went to a restaurant [Tuesday] and the waitress asked what we were doing up in Whistler . . . she had no idea who we were,” said Gough, who is expecting an assortment of family up in Whistler when the Games begin.
“We told her who we were and she started
asking us all these questions so that was really neat,” she laughed.
Gough will be the only Olympian from Abbotsford at these Games, something she was not previously aware of prior to Wednesday. Currently seventh in World Cup standings, Gough said she considers herself a serious medal contender.
“The time I ran on this track last time was good enough for a medal,” she said, “but because it’s warmer, the track isn’t as fast.”
“I think there could be some added pressure. There’s always a lot of pressure going into the Games but I think a lot of them have experienced great races and hopefully they can draw upon that and not get too rattled,” she said.
“You just have to realize that it’s the same competi-
tors, the same races and just go out there and do your best.”
O l y m p i c e x p e r i e n c e s aside, Handley will be wide-ly remembered within the Blades’ local fraternity as the “attention-seeking” phenom-enon who entered the sport at the tender age of four.
“My parents had put me in a learn-to-skate program
and I was able to skate right away,” said Handley, who lived in Abbotsford until she was 17 years old.
“At the same t ime mybrothers had been put into speedskating and the coachsaid ‘why don’t you just send her out there with her broth-ers?’ I thought that was the greatest thing and that’s howI started skating.”
“I thought if I can’t compete I might as well run with the torch . . . I thought it would be fun to be a part of that, to show my spirit”
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Chilliwack-based photographer and former Abbotsford Times editor Rick
Collins isn’t sure how VANOC came to hear about his work, but, if he ever finds out, he plans to reward whoever’s responsible with a really nice hammock he picked up in Mexico.
“Somebody dropped my name on the right person’s desk, and they liked my work,” he said, offering his best explanation for why the organizing committee’s creative director decided to call him up and offer him work on a commemorative book for the 2010 Olympic Games.
Collins jumped at the chance, and now, after fin-
ishing one book – featuring his photos of First Nations artists commissioned to work on Games venues – he is now nearing the end of a 106-day, 45,000-kilometre odyssey to capture the Olympic torch’s Canadian journey in photo-graphs for a second book.
“What we’ve found,” he said, “is that the flame is like a rock star.”
Since touching down at Victoria International Air-port a fashionable hour and a half late on Oct. 30, the flame has been surrounded by an entourage of Aboriginal flame attendants, RCMP officers and VANOC employees and swarmed by crowds of cheer-ing, giddy fans in every com-munity it passes through.
For its trek west from St. John’s N.L., the flame’s reti-nue has swelled to 250, all of whom will accompany it right into Vancouver.
Despite the hoopla, Collins says the flame still brings out a pure strain of emotion in those who carry it and those it passes near.
“I’m a hardened, 20-years-in-the-business, cynical jour-nalist,” he said, “and, I’ll tell you, it catches you when you least expect it. You’ll come
around the corner and see a moment, and you start to cry.”
One of his favourite such moments was a twenty-something woman’s run during the relay’s first day in Victoria. She ran her 300-metre section surrounded by a crowd of supporters all laughing and crying and cheering her on.
“She cried the entire time she had it, from the time she got it in her hands until she had to let it go,” he said.
“The look on her face was so spectacular. It was won-derful to see just a really hon-est expression of joy from her.”
Another moment that caught Collins off guard was hearing a little girl in a crowd along the route turn to her mom and say, “Mommy, I’ll remember this day for the
rest of my life.” One woman carrying the
torch had had two heart transplants – one as a baby and one as a teenager. Her aunt, terminally ill with can-cer, wept quietly by the side of the road as her niece ran by.
Collins’ job is to capture such moments in some of the most stunning landscapes this country has to offer.
He was particularly blown away by Canada’s north where he ate caribou steak and watched the sun rise and set in the course of two hours.
“I think Canadians should take it upon themselves to travel within their country,” he said, “but most of all they really should get up as far north as they can get because the landscape and the people are so fantastic. It’s so wide open. It just goes on forev-er.”
As a long-time documen-tary photographer, open spaces along the torch route appeal to Collins, who looks for a wider view of the world in his photographs and only occasionally focuses tightly on singular subjects.
This approach appealed
Flame framesLocal shooter giving torch book a different look
to VANOC’s creative director who was looking to tell a sto-ry with the book rather than collect a series of portraits.
“There have been a lot of photographs of people hold-ing the torch high in the air
and smiling brightly at the camera,” said Collins describ-ing torch relay books made in the past.
He says this time the book will look more like a Cana-dian road movie in still pho-tos.
With an entourage of 250 constantly hovering around the torch, though, it’s been a challenge working in his preferred mode.
“We get in the way a lot,” he said, “so anytime that I’m able to get just a pure shot of
the torch in a beautiful place or landscape, those are my favourite.”
Setting up those shots, Col-lins spends a lot of time figur-ing out alternate routes to get ahead of the torch, so he can find a defining piece of land-scape or architecture that will tell the story of a particular community.
“You have to get into places and anticipate that a moment might happen right here,” he said.
The schedule, arranged
seamlessly down to the min-ute by torch relay organizers,can be a grueling one.
The flame, held inside aminer’s lantern, which is guarded overnight by Aborig-inal flame attendants, canleave the hotel as early as 5:30 a.m. It is then driven to therelay start point in a securityvan stuffed with flame atten-dants and RCMP officers and flanked by a convoy of policeand VANOC vehicles.
“You’ll come around the corner and see a moment, and you start to cry.”
– Rick Collins photographer
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Remember that hot July day in 2003 when Vancouver and the organizing com-
mittee was awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics?
There may have been more snow on the North Shore moun-tains that day seven years ago than there is now, with just seven days remaining before the open-ing ceremonies.
It’s hard to imagine with all the political wheeling and dealing, revised budget after revised bud-get and all the other political and commercial shenanigans that have happened since ’03 that the Olympics are finally here.
And to celebrate, here are a few tidbits, observations and other forms of gold medal trivia to get you pumped up.
■ Conspiracy theorists across British Columbia now believe Mother Nature is a fed-up resi-dent standing up to “the man” for the numerous cost overruns surrounding the total price of the Olympics and how much the people of this province are going to be paying for this delightfully expensive extravaganza.
This belief is spawned by the fact that with a week remain-ing until the Games officially kick off, there is more dirt than snow on some of the Vancouver mountains that hold some of the Olympic venues, which makes adding a mountain biking event more realistic than a snowboard-ing event.
We’ve seen more of the pine-
apple express than we have the North Pole express, as tempera-tures to the end of January hov-ered pleasantly above 10 C in the Lower Mainland.
And meteorologists are expect-ing this trend to continue.
The significant contrast from last year – subzero temperatures and snow for the better part of a month and tons of snow on the local hills – to the Olympic year is insane.
What makes this more intrigu-ing is that local Olympic dig-nitaries scoffed at the idea of weather experts predicting an El Nino year in 2010 because it wouldn’t sound good, as one meteorologist put it.
Well, here we are.The Games, and the world, are
arriving at this very moment, yet it seems that Mother Nature has no plans to make Vancouver, at least the city itself or Cypress Mountain, feel or look like the winter wonderland everyone was hoping for.
Is this merely a coincidence or is something out there trying to tell the B.C. government some-
thing?■ Not like there’s any pressure
on our athletes, what with the Own the Podium government initiative for 2010 and all, but Canada didn’t win a gold medal in either the ’88 Winter Olympics in Calgary or the ’76 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Here’s something else to pon-der.
Imagine Canada has some-thing like 30 medals, good enough to have won the 2006 Games in Turin, but no gold going into the final event – the mens ice hockey final.
For argument’s sake, let’s say Canada is playing in that game against Russia or the U.S.
If you thought there was pres-sure on the Canadian Olympic mens ice hockey team to win in the months leading up to the Games, then it’s safe to say it would grow insurmountably if this theory ever came to fruition.
And to think how many of us thought we could do Steve Yzerman’s job just as good as he could.
■ To all the Olympic athletes, from both Canada and abroad, best of luck in your competitions Vancouver and Whistler.
To the spectators, have a safe and enjoyable Olympic experi-ence. Let the Games begin!
■ Cam Tucker is a sports columnist for the Abbotsford-Mission Times. Contact him at [email protected].
Whatever people think of the Olympics, the event sure seems to stir the passions to overflowing.
There are, of course, the critics. Some are enraged our governments are spending billions of taxpayers dollars on what they see as a consumerism orgy. An orgy that primarily satisfies multi-national corpora-tions and drains our pockets.
They say the dollars should be spent on our schools, our hospitals, our homeless. They insist we need that money to keep our economies secure, our borders secure and to preserve our environment.
That the dollars ought to be used to help those struggling just to live another day, those straining to rise out of a disaster, such as those in Haiti.
Yes, all of those things are true. But there are times we human beings
want to, and we ought to, celebrate the human spirit and all its positive endea-vours. Times that symbolize that effort, those noble aspects of our collective humanity.
That, too, stirs passion, and there may be more than a few folks who find their hearts swelling and their eyes tearing up as they witness all the regular folks striding along the relay route with their torches, and wide, beaming smiles.
Try to keep a dry eye when Gerry Swan, a venerated track coach with the Abbotsford Royals, lopes into Rotary Stadium, torch held high, on the track that bears his name and that of his late wife, Jane.
Try not to be moved when Kiya Posthu-mus, having just barely survived a horrific accident, is pushed along her stretch of the route in Maple Ridge by her track coach.
So many people have told us it’s an hon-our to carry and pass that torch along.
That flame has an awfully long history, symbolizing the principles of peace, broth-erhood and friendship.
Simply by bearing witness, we too, will become part of the community.
It’s in that relay, that stretched across 45,000 kilometres of our country, in the hands of 12,000 people, that the meaning of the torch comes alive.
Perhaps it’s precisely these times of pain, worry and disillusionment that pulls us together as a community.
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Editor, the Times:Do you feel the buzz yet
or the ca-ching, ca-ching, ca-ching?
If bombarded with repeti-tion of certain phrases or buzz words, is the average person vulnerable to start to give credibility to the ulti-mate goal of the perpetra-tors of such? History clearly shows this type of brain-washing does work.
We are incessantly inun-dated with statements like “these are the greenest Olympic Games ever.”
That makes us all feel warm and fuzzy. How green is using $900 per hour per helicopter to move snow from the top of Cyprus Bowl to the Olympic venue? How green is trucking snow from Manning Park (a seven-hour round trip) to the same venue. These are just two of the hundreds of examples of the “green pious fraud” or did they mean the green that is in your wallet?
We are constantly being told by VANOC, the premier and the media that these are “your games.” Reports state 10,000 to 15,000 media members will have tickets to events. Add to this the bums of politicians, their friends, the IOC elite, secu-rity and tourists, how many seats will be available to you? Add to this the vast number of locals that will go without a pay cheque because of security shut-downs of numerous busi-nesses, some for months.
The true meaning of “Your Games” comes from the generally accepted view that is if you pay for something it is “yours,” so they are cor-rect.
The most disappointing cheerleader is the usually right wing Michael Camp-bell of CKNW, who in the past has trumpeted the “no free lunch” and “no work, no eat,” of which I agree.
He must be feeling the buzz as his demeanor has taken a complete turn-around, as evidenced by his recent numerous comments. To appease the whiners and complainers who can’t attend events because of cost or avail-ability, he states that there are several venues that you don’t have to use your VISA to attend. He calls these venues free. What hap-pened to his “no free lunch” attitude? Hypocrisy comes
to mind as these so-called free venues were paid for by someone and of course that someone is you as these are “your games.”
The sad part of these games is that you will be paying for these games for years to come as you are using borrowed dollars, or did you forget about our enormous debt and deficit?
T.B. MortimerMission
Hoping Dunach fight isn’t made in vainEditor, the Times:
It is a difficult thing when you are told that the school that you have chosen for your children is closing. Never mind the fact that the rumor concerning closure was discredited in November, only to resurface with validity in January. Disregard that, in the midst of teaching my children about democracy, I am left explaining why sometimes decisions are made with-out a say from the general public.
To explain why a school should or should not remain open is an intensely per-sonal thing. I have chosen Dunach Elementary from all of the schools within Abbotsford. We have never once thought of leaving. And yet you may never understand why if you are not directly involved in our school. I have had all three of my children attend this school, all of differing abili-ties and strengths, and have been thoroughly amazed at the care the teachers put into teaching, and reaching, each student. For it is not enough to walk away with a passing grade, but to have done your best. It is not acceptable to simply have a child in class, without some-how understanding that child, in order to help them to become the best that s/he can be. The students are taught to be S.M.A.R.T. (Safe behaviour, Manners, Application to school work, Respect, Thoughtfulness), and every child is recog-nized throughout the school year for exhibiting these behaviours. Every child. Not just the fastest or the brightest, but every child within Dunach is com-mended. Which is what makes us unique. For Dun-ach is about so much more
than grades and homework. It is changing lives, both in students and in those involved in the school.
I am saddened when I think that maybe this fight is in vain. Maybe it is all about budget cutbacks and closing an old, small school. But for my family, who have been privileged to have called Dunach our school for the last six years, it is so much more than that. It is about trying to find a safe alternative, a place where I can trust my children will be accepted and challenged, where I can feel supported as a parent, where morals are still taught. And a place that won’t face a closure of its own in the near future.
Lori KrahnAbbotsford
Keep Dunach in the city in the countryEditor, the Times:
Abbotsford is known as the City in the Country. We like to think of Dunach Elementary as our country school in the city.
Dunach embodies every-thing we love about living in Abbotsford. The kind of close-knit, caring commu-nity that country life is all about while still reaping all the benefits of city living. The best of both worlds.
The passion the parents and students have for Dun-ach is remarkable. It isn’t just another school. It is our school. We knew from the time our children were babies that we would send them to Dunach.
Of course like any parent would, we looked into other schools, including private, but always came back to Dunach, our first choice. It grieves me that as of March 22 we may have to move our children into a second choice school, or if we can no longer register there due to full classes (we’ll be com-ing into the registration pro-cess about two months late) then to our third or even fourth choice schools.
We pay taxes so our chil-dren can go to the best possible school and that school for us is Dunach. We were shocked at the $45 million price tag for upgrad-ing Abbotsford Collegiate when the Abbotsford School Board is wanting to close Dunach for good, a school that produces children with
a high level of academic learning, children who are and will become intelligent and participating members of our unique, City in the Country, community. Please keep Dunach open.
Sam and Heidi DickAbbotsford
Been around long enough to knowEditor, the Times:
I have lived in Abbotsford my entire life. I remember when Essendene Avenue had two lanes with no traffic lights. I have seen this area as the centre of downtown in the 1950’s.
I watched the struggle of the ‘mom and pop’ stores compete with the big box stores only to rebound with new energy and life.
The village of Abbotsford has survived. I strongly believe this area is still the heart and soul of historic Abbotsford.
I believe that the Abbotsford downtown area along with Jubilee Park (which is an inte-gral part of the plan) could be one of the jewels of our com-munity if planned correctly. The Abbotsford Downtown Business Association have done a wonderful job of revi-talizing the area and I have no doubt they will continue into the future with a posi-tive focus.
I have read and listened to comments made from both sides of the issue regarding Essendene Avenue. However I struggle with the thought that the traffic will find a place to reroute.
The alternate routes are George Ferguson Way or South Fraser Way.
Think of the traffic on these alternate routes dur-ing the Berry Festival. With the expected growth of our community, how long will it take to achieve that situation on a daily basis if Essendene Avenue becomes two lanes?
Over the last few years I have noticed while driving on Essendene Avenue that people are running red lights more often and road rage is becoming more apparent.
I sincerely doubt whether traffic calming will take place if two lanes are taken away and replaced with wider side-walks.
The concept, if I under-stand it correctly, is to draw people into the ‘historic old town’ rather than to drive
Reader asks: whose Games are these anyway?them away.
I am asking council to think carefully before mak-ing a decision regarding the proposal that would cost the taxpayers $1.6 million.
If the current plan for Essendene Avenue goes ahead there must be also additional planning for the
extra traffic on the alternateroutes, which would then greatly increase the cost of the project as it standstoday.
But then again, what do I know, I’ve only been here60 years.
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A12 ❘ OLYMPIC NEWS ❘ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THE TIMES
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While the province is celebrating the biggest party in its history in 2010, the Canadian Blood Services
wants you to join in on the fun – at a blood donor clinic near you.
From Feb. 1 to Mar. 31, in exchange for a pint of blood, B.C. donors will receive a limited edition Vancouver 2010 gold com-memorative pin as a way of saying thanks for saving lives and being a true hero this winter.
“When you think of the Winter Games, donating blood isn’t the first thing that comes to mind,” said Britt Andersen,
regional donor services manager for the B.C. & Yukon Region.
“And yet it’s so important to remember that blood is needed every minute of every day by hospital patients in need. Without blood donors, there are no blood recipi-ents.”
Based on the experience of blood centres
located in former host cities, CBS antici-pates a potential 15 per cent decrease in blood collections in the Lower Mainland during the Games. This equals about 650 units of blood.
“For such a big event, people tend to alter their routines, staying at home to avoid road closures and increased traffic,” said Andersen.
“This mentality could greatly impact our clinics, and we want to encourage people across the entire province to consider donating blood in February and March to help keep hospital patients healthy and safe.”
Canadian Blood Services needs to collect 19,000 units of blood throughout B.C. in February and March. Call 1-888-2-DONATE (1-888-236-6283) for an appointment.
◗ During February and March, Abbotsford res-idents can donate at the Abbotsford Pentecos-tal Assembly, 3145 Gladwin Rd., Abbotsford,on the following dates:
Feb. 9, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.Feb. 13, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 23, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.Mar. 9, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.Mar. 13, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mar. 23, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
◗ Mission residents can donate at the fol-lowing clinics at the Cedar Valley MennoniteChurch, 32840 Janzen Ave., Mission, duringFebruary and March:
Feb. 15, 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Mar. 15, 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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As if the usual challenges of the winter season aren’t enough, lower mainland drivers are facing many new driving rules and a number of unusual heightened risks. While the ban on driving and using hand-held electronic communica-tion devices (ECD) has been in eff ect for one month, during this month, to allow drivers time to change their habitual chatting and driv-ing behaviour and acquire hands-free devices, enforcement has involved only warnings.
Starting February 1st, however, police will issue $167 fi nes and three penalty points to drivers caught “holding, operating, communicating or watching the screen of a handheld electronic communication device” while driving. The devic-es are broadly defi ned to include hand-held cell phones, personal digital assistants, other hand held electronic devices that process or compute data, hand-held audio players including iPods and MP3 players, GPS Navigation Systems, hand microphones, and television screens.
A website developed by the government of Brit-ish Columbia and ICBC, www.drivecellsafe.com provides a list of the banned and permitted devices, the special rules for new drivers in the Graduated Licensing Program—no use of any type of ECD, and a list of common-sense tips on how to “focus on the road and drive smart.” Driv-ers should note that 911 calls are exempted.
The other recent rule changes include various road closures, designated Olympics lanes, no stopping and parking restrictions that are now coming into eff ect. Although this information has been publicly available since August 2009, nothing commands attention quite like barri-cades and “Road Closed” signage. Road closures for security purposes or for pedestrian strolls include: the Georgia viaduct, Waterfront Road,
and parts of Expo Boule-vard, Pacifi c Boulevard, Granville, Robson, Main-land and Hamilton Streets. Designated Olympic Lanes for TransLink buses and Olympic accredited ve-hicles will be in place from February 4 to March 1, 2010 for 24 hours, 7 days a week. Olympic Lanes in Vancouver will be in the curb or right-hand lane along parts of Burrard,
Seymour, Howe, Pender, Cambie, Broadway, Georgia, and Hastings.
Most other streets in the downtown core will become no-stopping zones including Nelson, Cordova, Main, Pender, Thurlow and Water, and parking restrictions will be in eff ect on parts of Cambie, Pender, Quebec, Abbott and Cordova streets. In short, lower mainlanders who work, shop or attend entertainment venues in the downtown core will need to learn about these changes and plan accordingly. For the most cur-rent information go to: www.travelsmart2010.ca and http://olympichostcity.vancouver.ca/gettin-garound. The fi ne for breaching these new rules is $100. Cars stopped or parked in restricted areas will also be subject to automatic towing.
Other ‘unusual heightened risks’ are more diffi -cult to understand, but no less problematic. The January 2010 statistics on pedestrian fatalities in both Toronto and Vancouver have been so shockingly ‘bad’ that a reasonable response for the safety-conscious driver is to feel extra-spooked. Of course it follows that pedestri-ans—and we are all pedestrians too—also need to redouble their eff orts to take care.
And another worry comes from the massive ve-hicle recalls from the highly respected brands, Toyota and Honda.
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THE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 ❘ INSIDE 2010 ❘ A13
The first torch of the day is lit from the lantern, and the flame is then passed along the route by means of “the kiss”—the moment the flame arcs from one torch to the next.
In the evening, the last runner makes his/her way through the crowd and onto a stage to light a cauldron, which is extinguished after the evening celebration.
By the time the miner’s lantern makes it back to the hotel room and Collins has uploaded his pho-tos, it’s usually time for bed.
The project is ambitious espe-cially since VANOC plans to pub-lish the book within four days of the Feb. 12 opening ceremonies.
By that time Collins will be work-ing on a third commemorative book covering the Games them-selves.
Until then he is finding plenty of inspiration in the task at hand especially from the 12,500 runners who put a new face on the relay every 300 metres.
“The stunning landscape and Canadiana and all that stuff has all been wonderful,” he said, “but what really stands out is the human experience with the flame.”
COLLINS, from page A9
It’s well worth the long days
with glowing hearts
CAM TUCKER
Sports physiotherapist Greg Bay of Abbotsford is well known in the worldwide athletic community, but prior to 2010 there
was something missing from his resumé.After years of success in his field however, Bay
can add the 2010 Winter Olympics to the list of events and athletes to whom he has provided his knowledge and skills.
Bay left his friends, co-workers and clients at Sport & Spine Clinic on Railway Street in Abbotsford for the bustling resort of Whistler. There, he has set up shop as the supervisor of therapy for the Whistler Polyclinic for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
“It was an honour to be asked to be involved at this level,” Bay said on Jan. 28, one day before he headed up to Whistler where he will stay until the final day of the Paralympics on March 22.
“To be able to utilize some of the skills that you develop over the years, to put together an amazing therapy team and provide the leader-ship for them [is a great honour].”
Bay’s tasks will include scheduling and co-ordinating a highly skilled team comprised of therapists from all over the world. As a Cana-dian, he said he takes pride in being able to provide quality care for the athletes.
“I’m proud to be a physiotherapist who can
provide leadership to the world [with] our level of expertise and to integrate that with a number of therapists all over the world.”
Dr. Bill Jacobs and Dr. Todd Marshall of the Sumas Mountain Chiropractic and Wellness Centre will also be joining Bay and his team in Whistler for the Paralympics.
Bay said that the Games will provide an oppor-tunity to not only raise the profile of the calibre
of athletes in the Fraser Valley, but also the medi-cal care in the region.
“I’m proud to have that community represen-tation,” Bay said. “If we don’t have the athletesand the infrastructure to develop that, then whatdo you do on the cutting edge?
“It forces you to be better. It forces you go outand get further education . . . This is the top levelto perform what we’ve worked so hard to do.”
Heading up an Olympic operationAbby physiotherapist leads team in Whistler
– JEAN KONDA-WITTE/TIMES
Abbotsford’s Greg Bay, left, is in Whistler as the supervisor of therapy. At his Abby Sport & Spine clinic, therapist Murray Schneider, right, works on the knee of skier Kelly VanderBeek, following her surgery.
A14 ❘ FAITH ❘ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THE TIMES
with glowing hearts
There is a very interesting passage in Acts chapter 19, which reads “A group of
Jews was traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits.
“They tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in their incanta-tion, saying, ‘I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, to come out!’
“Seven sons of Sceva, a leading priest, were doing this. But one time when they tried it, the evil spirit replied, ‘I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?’ Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them, and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house, naked and battered.
“The story of what happened
spread quickly all through Ephe-sus, to Jews and Greeks alike. A solemn fear descended on the city, and the name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored.
Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. A number of them who had been practising sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire.”
I wonder how we today would
respond to a leader asking us if we were actually Christians or not? Would we be able to to accept such a robust challenge?
Paul’s identity in Christ is secure, and his understanding of his calling is crystal clear. He isn’t bolstering his self-worth by building an online community or interest group, nor by selling per-sonalized preaching notes.
His sole motivation is love for this misguided bunch of believ-ers. Here Paul issues a challenge: “Take a look at yourselves. Are you in the faith?”
Perhaps more of us need to respond to that question. Today, are you aware of areas in your life that the Holy Spirit is challeng-ing? Tomorrow, if someone ques-
tions or challenges you on your lifestyle, actions or speech, will you respond out of hurt and take offence?
Or will you lean back into the security you have in Jesus and be open to whatever God might want to say to you?
Three statements made by our Lord Jesus beginning with the words “It is . . . offer us comfort, reassurance, and hope that Jesus indeed is enough.”
The first is in Matthew 4, and is repeated three times: “It is written,” responding to the three temptations of Satan. Jesus gave us proof enough that the word of God is true and overcomes the most powerful forms of tempta-tion and pressure.
The second “It is I” statement was spoken when Jesus told His terrified disciples that he himself was presence enough to stop the howling storm and calm the rag-ing seas.
Jesus spoke the third “It is” from the cross: “It is finished!” He assured us that his death was provision enough to pay the debt for our sins and set us free.
Perhaps, however, you need to start at the beginning. Have you confessed your sins and received Jesus as your personal savior and lord? Do it today – tomorrow may be too late. God bless you!
■ Fred Moore is a former missionary,now living in Abbotsford and attend-ing Sevenoaks Alliance Church.
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MaranathaMaranathaBaptist ChurchBaptist Churchwww.maranathabc.ca3580 Clearbrook Rd.604-854-1505
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CHURCH(corner of King & McKenzie Rd.)
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(nursery provided)Free Bible Course Offered
Listen to “Gospel Talk”Mon-Fri 2:45 pm on Kari AM 550
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LUTHERAN
PEACELUTHERANCHURCH
10:30 am Holy Communion10:30 am Children’s Ministry9:00 am Deutsch
2029Ware St. at Marshall604-859-5409
Pastor Christoph Reiners
www.plc-abby.org
(IN MISSION)
St. Pauls8469 Cedar St.604-826-8481
PRESBYTERIAN
10:30 amWorship & Children’s Church
Interim Minister:Rev. Donald Hill
Youth Leader: Doug McKellanwww.stpaulspc.caYou are welcome!
LUTHERAN
Trinity LutheranLutheran Church - Canada (LC-C)Church of the Lutheran Hour3845 Gladwin Road North
604-853-3227
9:45am Sunday School& Bible Studies
10:30amWorship Service
www.trinitylcc.caPastor: David Hilderman
PRESBYTERIAN
NEW LIFEPENTECOSTAL
CHURCH33668 McDougall Street
Abbotsford604-859-0039
Sunday School &Adult Bible Classes . . . . 10:30 amEvangelistical Service . . 11:30 amThursday Bible Study . . .7:00 pm
Pastor: D. Rideout604-850-7579
Calvin ChurchA mainstream church
with an evangelical heart2597 Bourquin Crescent EastPhone: 604-859-6902
Pastor: Hans KouwenbergKids Connect: Sarah Smith
Youth Connect: Katherine Allan
WORSHIP SERVICES9:15 am & 11:00 amCome as you are!
Worship CentresSovereign GraceBaptist Church8134 Hyde Street, Mission
Pastors: Darryl SavageOffice: 820-3448
Sunday Morning Worship10:30 am
Sunday Evening Service6:30 pm
Tuesday Bible Study7:00 pm
sovereigngrace.bizland.com
BAPTIST
ALLIANCE
3440 Mt. Lehman Rd 604-607-5031www.heritagealliance.ca
Sunday~9:30 am Christian Life Classes
for all ages10:45 am Worship Service &
Kidzchurch7-9 pm Youth - Gr. 6-12
HealingServices
St. Matthew'sAnglican ChurchCorner of Marshall Road
& Guilford Drive604-853-2416
Come to sit with Jesus,to seek prayer
for yourself or another.
Where Spirit & Tradition meet
7:00 pm on the firstSunday of each month
Next Service will beSunday, February 7th 2010
2719 Clearbrook Road(Corner of Clearbrook & Old Yale Roads)
Phone: 604-850-6607
CLEARBROOKMENNONITEBRETHREN CHURCH
Sunday, February 7th, 7 pmCommissioning Service for
Pastor Ron & Ruth Bergat Clearbrook MB Church2719 Clearbrook Rd.
Steve Berg,BCMB Conference Minister
and Ron’s brother,will serve with a message.
This celebration will be followedby a time of refreshments.
All are welcome.
REFORMED
Immanuel CovenantImmanuel CovenantReformed ChurchReformed Church
(URCNA)Welcomes you!
35063 Page Road, Abbotsford(east of Hwy 11, north of Harris Rd)Sunday Services:10:00am & 3:30pmRev. Steven A. Swets604.826.8854
Biblical preachingGod-centred worship
THE TIMES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 ❘ INSIDE 2010 ❘ A15
with glowing hearts
Indeed, Kiya is one of those well-rounded teens who can’t seem to get enough of life. She’s on the Hurricanes student council at her high school, she gets good grades, she’s involved in sports such as rugby, but particularly track. She’s been running for two years and is a member of the Abbotsford Royals track club. She competes in 800- and 1,500-metre and 5-km cross-country runs. Doctors expect her to fully recover to compete again, said her mom.
It’s obvious that while her body is tem-porarily damaged, her spirit hasn’t been crushed. When doctors raised concerns about her returning to school while she’s still confined to a wheelchair, Kiya reportedly piped up and informed the doctors, “My school is Rick Hansen Sec-ondary . . . we’re wheelchair friendly.”
At school, “she’s just a ball of sunshine. She’s involved in everything,” said her
principal, Julie Rousseau. “When the kids heard about Kiya [her accident] they were just crushed.”
The whole school, students and staff, have been hanging on any news of her,
and Kiya’s recovery and optimism has inspired her entire school, said Rous-seau.
“Kiya has set an example, setting a goal and going beyond it. She has a will
of steel – this young girl is unbelievable,she’s in a lot of pain, but she still wantsto do this.
“She truly exemplifies the Olympic courage,” said Rousseau, who teared up more than once during the interview.
When Kiya’s student council col-leagues learned that she still wanted tobe in the torch run, they hatched a planto buy the $400 torch for her. They’re busy collecting monies from school-mates and through Facebook and hopeto surprise Kiya with the gift at the endof her “run.”
Rousseau hopes to obtain a schoolbus for the students and staff for Mon-day morning so they can cheer Kiya onwhen she travels along her segment ofthe torch route.
“The spirit of the students, the entireschool, everyone’s behind the idea.We’ve turned a very bad situation into avery strong community-building situa-tion. It’s a beautiful thing.”
“The spirit of the students, the entire school, everyone’s behind the idea. We’ve turned a very bad situation into a very strong com-munity-building situation. It’s a beautiful thing.”
– Julie Rousseau Principal, Rick Hansen Sec.
Teen “truly exemplifies Olympic courage”STRENGTH, from page A5
The local community forest is going to play a
key part of the medal cere-monies at the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralym-pics, with wood from the Mission Municipal Forest being used to construct the podiums.
“The Olympic spirit is alive and well in Mission and this is a tremendous opportunity for us to par-ticipate in the Olympics,” says Maple Ridge-Mission
MLA Marc Dalton. “British Columbia has a
world-class forest indus-tr y and this gives us a chance to show our prod-ucts to the world,” adds Abbotsford-Mission MLA Randy Hawes.
“This is a great market-ing opportunity and gives us a unique connection to the Olympics.”
The Mission Municipal Forest donated coastal Douglas fir for the podium that will be used during the B.C. Place team victory ceremonies. A schedule of events and medal ceremo-nies is available at www.vancouver2010.com.
Mission’s wood bound for medalsPodiums made from region’s Douglas fir
COMMUNITYCHURCH
FAITHBIBLE
CHURCH2455 West Railway StPhone 604-852-0211Fax 604-852-3063
Morning Worship10:00 am
Wednesday Evening7:00 pm
Senior Pastor: Brad Collins
MENNONITEBRETHREN
3160 Ross Road, Abbotsford
(1 block north of Fraser Highway)
Phone: 604-856-2024
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES
9:00 AM & 10:45 AM
“KIDS PROGRAM DURING BOTH SERVICES”
ALL ARE WELCOME!
COMMUNITYCHURCH
GRACEEVANGELICALBIBLE CHURCH
2087 McMillan Road
859-9937
Worship Service - 10:15 am& Children’s Ministry
Weekly activities for studentsand children as scheduled.
Lead Pastor - Warren SchatzWorship Director - Andrew Jager
BAPTIST
Central ValleyBaptist Church
33393 Old Yale Rd., Abbotsford(3 blocks east of White Spot)
604-850-3204Traditional Services
Sunday School. . . .10:00 amMorning Worship . .11:00 amEvening Worship . . 6:30 pm
Wed. Bible Study &Childrens Club 7:00 pm
PENTECOSTAL
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ALL WELCOME!Are you seeking a deeperand richer experience of
the Lord Jesus?Sundays 10:30am & 6:30pm
Wednesdays 7:30pm
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(South of Vye Rd.)604-852-4564
CHRISTIANREFORMED CHURCHCome and join us for worship
LIVING HOPECHRISTIAN REFORMED
CHURCH34631 Old Clayburn Road
604-853-6151Rev. Colin VanderPloeg
Youth Director: Adam VanDop
Sunday Services:10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Sunday School: 10:30 am(Nursery provided)
Weekly activities for all Everyone welcome
Church of Godin Christ,Mennonite
29623 Downes RoadCorner of Ross & Downes Rd.
Sunday School 10:00 am
Worship Service 10:50 am
Everyone Welcome
MENNONITE MENNONITEBRETHRENCLEARBROOKMENNONITE
BRETHREN CHURCH2719 Clearbrook Road
(Corner of Clearbrook & Old Yale Roads)Phone: 604-850-6607
9:45 am German Worship Serviceand Sunday School
11:00 am Family Worship Service7:00 pm Evening Service10:00 am Wednesday Bible Study
German/English“We preach Christ crucified andrisen” 1 Cor. 2-3; 1 Cor. 15-20
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A church with a vision for Restoration
...welcomes you
Times havechanged,the Gospelmessagehas notchanged
2455 W. Railway St. Abbotsford(Faith Bible Church)
Sunday Worship2:30 pm
Wednesday NightHome Bible Study7:00 pm
For more info call 604-870-9770
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
wondercafe.ca
10:00 am ServiceTrinity MemorialUnited Church
33737 George Ferguson WayAbbotsford
604-853-2591Rev. Connie Thompson
10:00 am ServiceSt. Andrew’sUnited Church
7756 Grand Street at 10th Ave.Mission
604-826-8296Rev. Norm Pettersson
10:00 am ServiceGladwin HeightsUnited Church
3474 Gladwin RoadAbbotsford
604-852-3984Rev. Dorothy Jeffery
Contemporary WorshipBiblical TeachingA Great Community
Join usSundays @ 10:00am
(Children’s programs during service)
Meeting at:Abbotsford School of Integrated Arts36232 Lower Sumas Mtn. Rd.
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COMMUNITYCHURCH
Mountain ParkCommunity Church
ARABIC
AbbotsfordArabic Church2719 Clearbrook Road
Wednesday service 7:00 pm
Pastor Rida Hanna 572-9906 (Surrey)
Serop Sarkis 859-2013 (Abbotsford)
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THE SALVATIONARMY
CASCADECommunity Church
Sunday Worship 10:00 a.m.Kids Time for age 2½ to 11Nursery for under age 2½Evening Service 6:00 p.m.
Everyone is welcome
www.cascadechurch.ca
35190 Delair RoadAbbotsford, BC604-556-7000
Where Spirit & Tradition meet
ST. MATTHEW’SANGLICANCHURCH
Corner of Marshall Road and Guilford Drive
Rector: The Rev. Mike StewartAssociate: The Ven. Trevor Walters
604-853-2416
Holy Communion (Traditional) ....8:30 amFamily Eucharist (Contemporary) 10:15 amHealing Service............................7:00 pmHoly Communion Wednesdays... 10:00 am
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ANGLICANALLIANCE
2575 Gladwin Road,Abbotsford604-853-0757
www.sevenoaks.org
Sunday ServicesTraditional Service 9:30 amContemporary Service 11:00 am
Evening Service 6:30 pm
on the last Sunday of each month
MENNONITEBRETHREN
Sunday Worship Services8:45 am Traditional Service11:15 am Liturgical Service11:15 am Contemporary Service10:00 am Learning Centre
for all ages
2285 Clearbrook Road604-859-4611
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
Meeting at Abbotsford ChristianSchool | Secondary Campus35011 Old Clayburn Rd.Sunday Service: 10:00 AMConnections Groups:Wednesdays @ 7:30 PMThursdays @ 7:00 PMPastoral Team:
Blake & Adrienne JoinerSean & Jamie Sabourin
778-808-9684www.connectchurch.ca
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Invites you to worship accordingto the Book of Common Prayer
HOLY COMMUNION12:30 PM
Matsqui Lutheran Church-Matsqui Village5781 Riverside Street
The Rev’d Michael Shier 604-951-3733Info.: 604-856-6902
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ST. MICHAELANDALLANGELS
RESURRECTION LIFE CHURCH
He is not here...He is risen
JESUS CELEBRATION
Saturday @ 6:45 pm
2455 WEST RAILWAY(Faith Bible Church)
Pastors: Ray: 604-807-7470David: 778-878-1189
Patrick: 778-908-9824
TWO LOCATIONS
Sunday @ 10:00 am
SENIORS DROP IN CENTRE(Cyril Street, off Essendene)
Come To Jesus
BAPTIST
immanuelfellowship.ca2950 Blue Jay Street, Abbotsford, BCWorship 9:00 & 10:30 amKidstrek & Crosstrek classes
10:30 Children’s ChurchWeekly Kids Clubs, Youth,
Celebrate Recovery & more.Everyone Welcome604-852-4746
COMMUNITYCHURCH
There’s always a place for you!contemporary worship
excellent children’s program
Sunday Services9:00 am & 11:00 am
Meeting at2393 West Railway Street604.864.ACTK www.actk.ca
Senior Pastor - Justin Manzey
ANGLICAN
NON-DENOMINATIONAL
10:30 am Sunday services(10:15 am coffee & tea bar)
Meeting atAbbotsford Traditional
Middle School2272 Windsor St.
Abbotsford604-746-4411www.ieastgate.ca
A16 ❘ OLYMPIC NEWS ❘ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THE TIMES
with glowing hearts
CAM TUCKER
Abbotsford’s two border crossings, Aldergrove and Huntingdon, are increasing their capacity to cope
with the projected increase of travelers coming into the Lower Mainland for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Huntingdon cross-ing will have five lanes open between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. dur-ing the Games, while the Aldergrove crossing will have three lanes opens during the same hours, said Canada Border Ser-vice Agency spokesper-son Faith St . John on Thursday.
T h e C B S A h a s a l s o increased its contingent of employees to help prevent major waits.
“So we have additional border services officers assigned to those ports of entry and we do plan to increase the staffing levels . . . at those ports of entry as well as others,” St. John told the Times.
Throughout the summer, the CBSA pro-
cesses roughly one million travelers a month. However, with the actions taken by the agency it is prepared to manage that amount of volume plus more during the Games, St. John said.
“The CBSA’s priority is protecting the safety and security of Canadians and visi-tors while ensuring travelers coming to Canada for the Games do not face unnec-essary delays at our ports of entry,” she said.
St. John recommended that people trav-eling to and from Canada during the Games check the border wait times and incorpo-
rate extra time into their travel plans well ahead of their trip.
“Those wait times are updated every hour and will probably be updated more frequently during Games time,” said St. John.
S h e a l s o s a i d t h a t travelers must have the proper documentation, although admissibility requirements will not
change during the Olympics.“Take note of what to expect and how
to prepare and that will help make your experience at the border crossing more pleasant.”
◗ For more information on border waits, go to www.cbsa.gc.ca.
Border set for swarmCrossings at Aldergrove and Huntingdon make jump in staff and hours
“Take note of what to expect and how to prepare and that will help make your experience at the border crossing more pleasant.”
– Faith St. John CBSA spokesperson
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The District of Mission Mayor and Councilinvite you to submit nominations for individuals, groups, or organizations who have
demonstrated exemplary volunteerism in the following areas:
Arts & Culture: For outstanding volunteerism in the field of arts and culture.Citizen of the Year: Recognizes the contributions of one individual for their overallvolunteerism and commitment to improving the quality of life for the citizens of Mission.Community Service: For demonstrating exemplary leadership in communityvolunteerism.Crime Prevention & Community Safety: For an individual, group, or organizationwho has demonstrated exemplary volunteerism in the area of crime prevention andpublic safety.Lifetime Achievement: For an individual, group, or organization that has a notablehistory of volunteerism which has resulted in the overall betterment of Mission.Special Accomplishment: Bestowed to an individual, group, or organization fordemonstrating significant volunteer leadership skills or who has accomplished anoteworthy contribution in any field or endeavor.Sports Volunteer of the Year: For an individual who has demonstrated exemplaryvolunteerism in the field of sports.Against the Odds Achievement: For an individual who achieves excellence despitethe special challenges faced by people with disabilities.
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Sandy Hill elementary’s grade 2/3 class made Olympic banners to hang at the ARC Live Site for the duration of the Olympics. Pictured here is Chelsey, painting an Inukshuk on part of the banner.
With the 2010 countdown nearly complete, all top-level athletes competing
in Vancouver’s Olympic and Para-lympic Games are as physically fit as they are going to get. But as history has shown dozens of times, it’s not always the body or the training that lets down the Olympian. Often it’s the mind.
Jitters, butterflies, nerves, or a sense of being overwhelmed or dis-tracted — call it what you want. What is going on in the mind of the world’s best athletes can become their downfall.
It’s Roger Friesen’s job to help 2010 Olympians dispel any mind-games or distractions they might face before they compete this February. Friesen, a sport psychology con-sultant and University of the Fraser Valley kinesiology instructor, will be working with four other specially trained sport psychology consultants at the Olympics. Basically, they have the challenging job of making sure all athletes have their heads in the
game when the timing is crucial.“It doesn’t matter how well an ath-
lete has physically trained, the Olym-pics can be mentally overwhelming,” says the Abbotsford resident. “The overall level of stress once these athletes and trainers get to the site is a whole new ball game and it’s quite fascinating to see how it affects them. I remember the first time I
was physically on site during at an Olympic Games; it gave me a whole new appreciation of the magnitude of these events and the stress and pressure the athletes feel.”
Friesen has helped athletes pre-pare for six different Olympic s, working with the Canadian men’s field hockey and women’s volleyball
teams, kayaker David Ford, and most recently with alpine ski racer Kelly VanderBeek — until her injury in December. While he won’t be beside VanderBeek at Whistler, he will be on hand to mentally coach all other participants, managers, coaches, or any other member of the Olympic family.
Some examples of why an athlete might need a sport psychology con-sultant are easy to imagine. Most people, even those who are the best in the world at their particular sport, feel some anxiety before a big race or event.
“We let the athlete know that it’s normal to feel jitters before a big event,” he explains. “Intellectu-ally, they know this, but there are so many distractions that they get overwhelmed.”
When not working with Olympic athletes, Friesen teaches sport psy-chology courses in the kinesiology department at UFV, as well as several field-based courses in wilderness recreation.
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Abbotsford acupuncturist Dr. Chris Vallee, DTCM, will be in Van-couver and Whistler during the Olympic Games.
CHRISTINA TOTH
Some Olympic athletes will be receiving a souvenir pin of a different sort, thanks to Abbotsford sports acupunctur-ist Dr. Chris Vallee.
A doctor of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which includes the ancient practise of acupuncture, Vallee will be pulling a few volunteer shifts at the Olympic Polyclinics in Vancouver during the first week of the Games, and then at Whistler for the second week.
“The Winter Olympics is a new area for us – acupunctur-ists will be there [at the Winter Games] for the first time,” said Vallee, who provides his services at the Sumas Mountain Chiropractic and Wellness Clinic in Abbotsford.
As the co-chair of the Sports Acupuncturists Association ofB.C. along with Dr. Ian Dunsmuir, Vallee lobbied to get the alternative treatments into the big winter sporting event.
Their persistence worked, and it probably helped that thepractitioners already have a good reputation among summersports athletes and local professional athletes.
Vallee and several other TCM practitioners will be volunteer-ing at the clinics – and they’ll be wearing Canadian hockeyteam jerseys on the days the Olympic men’s hockey team
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The Japanese Olympic short track speedskaters lit up the ice at the ARC ever since their arrival on Jan. 26. Hundreds of fans have packed into the arena to watch the athletes in action. The skaters met the public and signed autographs for several hundred fans at The Reach last Sunday.
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The Abbotsford Recreation Centre will be the place to be to view all the thrilling Olympic sporting events and the pag-
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the facility, as well as flat screen televisions throughout for the duration of the Games.
“All of the Olympic events will be broadcast in real time,” said Steve Kellock, manager of Arena Operations. “We’ll be following the schedule of all of the Olympic Games.”
And for the mens and womens gold medal hockey games, Prospera will be setting up a 40-foot screen in the 380-seat ice arena where people can watch the hockey finals on the giant screen from the stands or from the ice, during a free public skate.
“We hope for the best, that Canada’s in them [gold medal games],” added Kellock.
This Sunday, the Russian figure skaters start their morning training at 10 a.m. and the ARC will have stadium seating for the public. They will skate until 1:15 p.m. People should plan to arrive early.
At 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. there will be a free community barbecue and the Russians will have a meet n’ greet and sign autographs from 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the gymnasium.
They will be back on the ice for the public to watch the routines from 4:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday is the only day fans will be able to watch the Russians from inside the arena, although overflow crowds can still view from
the mezzanine. There will be wait times.The Olympic torch will be coming in about
4 p.m. Sunday before it makes its way to Rotary Stadium for the torch celebration.
Throughout the two weeks of the Games, there will be structured activities for youthand families in the pool and ice arena, with Olympic themed activities, games and prizes.There will also be special events at the YouthCentre.
“These kinds of activities will add to the Olympic fever in the city,” said Kellock.
For more information, visit www.abby-livesite.ca or phone 604-853-4221.
ARC the place to be for live Olympic actionGold medal hockey on big screen during free public skate
CHRISTINA TOTH
As one of the of f ic ia l Olympic torch celebra-
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Some have already had a taste of what the city’s tal-ented minds can create, with Hannah & the Inukshuks.
The young dance troupe, comprised of 13 dancing ‘Inukshuks,’ two who are just four years old, greeted the Japanese Olympic speedskat-ers at The Reach Gallery dur-ing the team’s autographing session last Sunday.
“A s s o o n a s t h e l i t t l e Inukshuks appeared, every-one couldn’t help smiling,” said Freddie Latham, who directs the Abbotsford Chil-dren’s Theatre, but is involved in the local Olympic cultural events as a volunteer.
Latham’s role in the group’s development was to present
a germ of an idea to chore-ographer Hannah Celinski of Aerial Dance & Acro Acad-emy in Abbotsford. Celin-ski did the rest, creating the choreography and training the dancers.
“I think she’s brilliant. Sometimes collaboration can go sideways, but with the right people it works, and this works,” said Latham.
They’ll perform three num-bers at the free torch celebra-tions on Sunday at Rotary Stadium in Abbotsford.
A phrase from our nation-al anthem, “with glowing hearts,” inspired local impre-sario Tim Barrett to compose and write the score for an original piece of music dur-ing the Inukshuk show.
Multi-talented 15-year-old Victoria Duffield of Abbotsford will be perform-ing the song.
Sunday wil l showcase another brilliant dance com-pilation, choreographed by local dancer Lee Kwidzinski.
She worked with First Nations group, the Good Medicine Dancers, and the Sada Virsa Sada Guarav Bhangra Club, to create a jaw-dropping fusion dance piece called Different Drum.
‘Cultural Olympiad’ not one to be missedARC LiveSite and Rotary Stadium host great events
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The entertaining Inukshuks visit Abbotsford’s city hall recently.
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Russian pairs skaters practise Monday at ARC.
JEAN KONDA-WITTE
The excitement at the Abbotsford Recre-ation Centre is not letting up anytime soon, as more Russian skaters are com-
ing to town Saturday and next Friday to begin their training for the Olympics.
Each day, the ARC has been averaging about 700 people per two-hour training session, for the Russian figure skaters and Japanese speed skaters, as folks crowd into the mezzanine overlooking the arena to get a glimpse of some of the world’s best skaters.
And residents have also rubbed elbows with the athletes as the Russians have been mak-ing good use of the ARC for dry land training.Marina, a trainer on staff at ARC is from Rus-sia, and she’s been working with the skaters.
“She has been fantastic liaisoning with them, giving them orientation to the weight room, assisting them with drills to isolate muscle groups they are wanting to work on,” said Steve Kellock, Arena Operations manager.
Residents are not the only ones happy with the arrangement. The skaters are also pleased with the Abbotsford facility.
“They are very happy with their pre-Games training and with the way the city has man-aged to accommodate them,” said Kellock.
Russians dazzle crowdsLadies and ice dancers set to arrive this week
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Alvin Epp and his daughter Kelsy, 20, a UFV student, will be performing at the opening and closing ceremonies at B.C. Place for the 2010 Olympics. “It’s going to be amazing,” said dad.
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the thousands of performers for their experi-ence-of-a-lifetime at B.C. Place.
Kelsy Epp, 20, a student at UFV will be performing in the opening ceremonies next Friday, while Alvin Epp will be centrefield in the closing ceremonies on Feb. 28.
“It’s going to be a fantastic show and a big party at the closing, but we can’t say anything,” said Alvin, remaining tight-lipped about any other details. VANOC basically swears performers to secrecy, so no
event details are leaked before the big night.“They want it to be a big surprise,” he said.
“They say if it gets out, it ruins the surprise for the world. [But] it’s going to be amazing.”
The Epps auditioned to be part of the cer-emonies back in May and were chosen in
September.Kelsy, a second year kinesiology student at
UFV, has a background in dance and trained in jazz with Abbotsford’s Dance in Motion for 10 years. She is also a runner, completing several half marathons.
While Alvin (past president of Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce and candidate for mayor) admitted he is not the dancer his daughter is, he said he’s not totally uncoor-dinated.
When he’s not rehearsing for the big show or running his business, he volunteers to chauffeur the Russian figure skating team
Family affairDaughter opens, dad closes Olympic Games
“It’s amazing how they dressed up B.C. Place. You won’t recognize it.”
– Alvin Epp performer
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“So we looked at ways we could work with the Olym-pic Games. VANOC was very open-minded from the beginning,” he said, and eventually Vallee and other acupuncturists from the region were booked in for the clinics.
The Games Polyclinics will provide a range of medical and therapy services to ath-letes, VANOC and Interna-tional Olympic Committee members and others who need medical attention, complete with medical spe-cialists for cardiac and other disciplines. That way, ath-letes and other clients won’t have to wait at clinics or go to hospital emergency units unnecessarily, said Vallee.
Vallee and his TCM col-leagues will primarily be offering acupuncture.
They won’t, however, be providing any traditional herbal treatments, as those may interfere with anti-dop-ing tests.
For the high-level ath-letes, the beauty of the acu-puncture application is that there are no pharmaceuti-cals involved that could lead to disqualification, Vallee said.
“Acupuncture is a form of healing: it stimulates the body’s natural healing sys-tems, so the athletes can train and compete to the best of their abilities,” he said.
The athletic world – in North America, anyway – is just starting to understand the benefits of this alterna-tive treatment.
At the Games, Vallee hopes to show many more athletes from around the world just how well acupuncture can work.
“My expectation is to go in and showcase a natural way to heal the body and show athletes how it can be beneficial,” said Vallee.
Two of Vallee’s colleagues from the Sumas Mountain clinic, chiropractors Dr. Bill Jacobs and Dr. Todd Mar-shall, will also be volunteer-
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Vallee said the number and variety of sports therapists from the community is tes-
timony to “the calibre of theprofessional side of sportsmedicine, and the growingnumber of excellent practi-tioners in Abbotsford.”
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“I also spent a little time [OK, maybe a lot of time] trading pins,” said Peder-son, 53.
“I was a Vancouver 2010 bid volunteer since the early days of the domestic bid right up to the final announcement when I was on the floor of GM Place. I also put in over 100 applications through Petro Canada to carry the torch back in the 1988 relay. “I figure it took 22 years to have my name selected, but I am not complaining.”
After all this, Pederson is still calm but the thrill is building, he admits.
“I am sure that when the torch reaches
Abbotsford on Feb. 7, I will not be sleep-ing too well that night. I do consider it a privilege to have been one of the 12,000 [people] picked for this honour – to represent my school, town, province and country,” he told us in his e-mail.
Still, Pederson would like to carry the torch for a longer distance – he runs on the Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge from the “No parking sign to the Pizza Factory at approximately 7:58 a.m.
“A full kilometre would be nice. That would give one time to really absorb the atmosphere of this special time. The one thing that I am sure of, though, is that this will be the slowest 300 metres that I have ever run.”
– CHRISTINA TOTH/TIMES
Eugene Reimer Middle school teacher Dan Pederson of Abbotsford, is surrounded by his Grade 7 homeroom class. He’s eager to carry the Olympic torch on Feb. 8.
Not a lot of sleep the night before
RUSSIANS, from page A28
One glitch that the staff at the ARC overcome quickly was the temperature inside the arena, which was colder than what the Russians were used to in their home arena in St. Petersburg, which is dedicated to figure skating.
“We’ve managed to accom-modate them by getting some fans and more heating in the facility,” said Kellock, adding they were able to adjust the ambient air temperature for them.
The Russian lead liaison Ser-gei spoke with Mayor George
Peary on Wednesday and said he was quite pleased with the reception they’ve received and accommodations that the city has provided for them, said Kel-lock.
Area schools have been bus-sing students to the arena for a chance to watch the skaters, but schools in other districts have had to be turned away due to the high demand for viewing.
“We want to make sure we accommodate our local schools first,” Kellock said.
Three sets of pairs skaters and one male single are cur-rently training at ARC and the ice dancers will be arriving on Feb. 12 to begin their training.
Other athletes will arrive in Abbotsford tomorrow.
“They have not come as a
collective group. They come inspurts,” said Kellock.
Reactions from the fans have been extremely positive he added.
“[They have said] just howneat it is to be that close and
have their own taste of theOlympics . . . they are not eveninterested in going into Van-couver. This is fantastic andthey’ve had the opportunityhere in the Fraser Valley.”
“This is a fantastic oppor-tunity and they’ve had the opportunity here in the Fra-ser Valley.”
– Steve Kellock
Children are first priority
Canadian band Ty Hall & The EZ3 will support the Canadian freestyle ski team by pledging
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The track from the Ottawa-based band can be downloaded from iTunes.
“We know how important every dollar is to amateur athletes and just want to do our bit to
help. There’s a great and long-standing connec-tion between freestyle and music – so this is anatural fit for us,” said Hall, 27.
“Rock ‘n’ roll was part of freestyle from its startin the 1970s so this is very cool. Ty and his bandare part of a great tradition and we really appreci-ate their support and this initiative,” said Cana-dian Freestyle Ski Association CEO Peter Judge.
The rock-reggae, electro-acoustic flavour of TyHall & The EZ3 is known among college crowdsin North America, hitting No. 19 on playlists on U.S. College Radio.
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Agroup of lucky McDon-ald’s Restaurant employ-ees will be lovin’ it in
Vancouver and Whistler during the Winter Games.
About a dozen young women and men from Abbotsford and three from Mission will join the 300-strong McDonald’s Olympic Champion Crew to serve fries and Big Macs to the cream of the crop of international athletes compet-ing at the Games.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime oppor-tunity for these few, chosen from McDonald’s 77,000 Cana-dian workforce, who earned their berths with hard work and by providing great customer service and excellence in teamwork.
Not all the crew are servers. Sabrina Sheculski, a manager at the Mount Lehman outlet, earned her spot by earning the best Customer Satisfaction Oppor-tunities Award. Joining her from Abbotsford are Chantelle Perry, Jodie Sturworld, Jasmine Van-Dyck, Yuting Wang, Natasha Bud-nik, Chelsea Elliot, Melissa Taylor, Paige Traversy, Jaclyn Vanderdeen and Valerie Fraser.
Crew trainer Chantelle Perry, 18, has worked for McDonald’s for almost three years, and is planning to study to become a medical lab assistant once the Olympics are over.
Ashley Brown has worked for McDonald’s since April 2006. She’s
20, a crew trainer and studying for her bachelor of science degree.
The three chosen employees from Mission are Brad Fourni-er, Leslie Rebneris and Michael Westwick.
The employees will work at one of three state-of-the-art McDon-ald’s Restaurants in the Whis-tler Athletes Village and at the Athletes Village and the Media Centre in Vancouver, as well as stay downtown and experience related activities.
They’ll be able to attend select-ed Olympic Games events and participate in recreational, sight-seeing and cultural activities.
All 300 have gone through Olympic orientation and training to ensure they are ready to serve the best athletes in the world.
On Sunday, Ronald McDon-ald and friends will be at the McDonald’s at Bourquin Cres-cent and South Fraser Way, when the Olympic torch stops along its route to Rotary Stadium.
Lovin’ it at the GamesMcDonald’s employees off to the Olympics
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Melissa Taylor, Chantelle Perry and Ashley Brown are local McDonald’s employees making the most of a chance to experience the Olympics.
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With the 2010 Winter Olympics just a week away, Mission school-
teacher and former Olympian Eden Donatelli-Green can feel the spirit of the Games.
After all, she is reminded of it every-day when she sees the young faces in the classroom or in the halls from around the Mission and Abbotsford school districts.
K i d s e v e r y -where are in the spirit, she said.
“I do speak-ing at schools a n d I c a n s e e that the kids are just so excited,” said Donatelli-Green, who was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
“Kids are coming up to me with pictures of the Games . . . It’s really great.”
Donatelli-Green said that she is reminded of her own dream and what inspired her to go for the gold whenever she is around her stu-dents or young speedskaters whom she coaches in three different clubs throughout the Fraser Valley.
“It was back when I was in Grade 4 at Silverdale Elementary and we studied the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.,” she recalled.
“Just the thought of it inspired
me and I remember I was skatingat the time and of course that was back when Gaétan Boucher won asilver for Canada . . . so that was myexperience.”
Although Donatelli-Green needed no further inspiration to reach her dream, the experience of competingin the 1988 Games in Calgary addedto the Olympic luster.
“Being in the Games in Canada,there was a spirit and I feel it againnow,” she said.
She added to her Olympic lore with a silver medal in the women’s500m speedskating event and fol-lowed that with a bronze medal in the relay.
“It was one of those amazingmoments in life that you remember for-ever, like when youget married and havekids,” she said.
“I was young when it happened and I think it means moreto me now. It’s some-thing I look back and
treasure.”Donatelli-Green acknowledged
that not every young child can growup to be an Olympic athlete.
Instead, she said the Olympicdream is the overall “pursuit ofexcellence.”
“Whether it’s sports or somethingelse, children should aspire to be excellent,” she said.
“ W h y w o u l d n’t y o u w a n t t o encourage that?”
Donatelli-Green will be a part ofMission’s Olympic torch celebration,Experience the Flame, on Mondaymorning beginning at 5 a.m. from First Avenue in downtown Mission.
School kids soak up stories of her skates Mission teacher shares her medal memories with kids
“Whether it’s sports or some-thing else, children should aspire to be excellent.”
– Eden Donatelli-Green
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around town which is also fun he said. The opening ceremonies will be filled
with anticipation and nervous energy of everyone from the athletes to the organizers, said Alvin. The closing will be ‘pure party and celebration.’
“The colour and flavour will be real Canadian,” he said. “It’s about Canada and that’s what we get to showcase. That’s the important thing.”
Kelsy has been in rehearsals twice a week in Vancouver since November and said the entire cast is really excited and
“so pumped,” she said.The rehearsals held at a compound
near B.C. Place have been under intense security. No cell phones or cameras of any kind are allowed. Just recently the performers were allowed into the dome and the transformation is unbelievable, said Alvin.
“It’s amazing how they dressed up B.C. Place. You won’t recognize it. They have so many options (with the ceremonies being inside the dome) and they’re working it.”
While he could not get into specifics, he did say the production team is from
Australia, and with several other Olym-pics under their belt, they are pros at co-ordinating shows of this magnitude.
“They’re very efficient, very graceful dealing with the volunteers. We’re not allowed to say what the show will be about, but the costuming is going to be phenomenal,” he said.
“This is our moment in Vancouver to shine. It’s an amazing show with some-thing so cool and unique. Stay tuned.”
The Feb. 12 opening ceremonies will be broadcast live on CTV and through News 1130 radio, and at the Live Site at the Abbotsford Recreation Centre.
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Back by popular demand on the requests of many
readers, I will be using my real legal name once again as my column signature. You know the rules: Kul-winder or Ken, just not Kenny please.
I am super excited about the Olympic torch coming to Mission on Feb. 8. Yes, it’s finally here folks. The time has come for everyone to get on this bandwagon and embrace the 2010 Olym-pics. I realize there is much opposition and rightfully so. But, there will be plenty of time after the two-week event for post-game discus-sions. Let’s welcome the 80-plus countries competing in these Games with some Canadian style. It’s for the athletes and coaches who have trained for countless years to come to Canada and hopefully earn their place on the podium. If you don’t agree with the Olym-pics or the money spent - that’s fine. Point made. Some should remember 64 per cent of Vancouver resi-dents voted in a referendum
accepting the responsibili-ties of host city in February of 2003. On that point, there is no better place in the world than Vancouver-Whistler to host thousands of talented Olympians
I still recall getting up that morning on July 2, 2003 to hear the International Olympic Committee’s deci-sion.
It was between two cities: Vancouver and PyeongChang, South Korea. PyeongChang had the most votes on the first ballot beating Vancouver 51- 40. On the second bal-lot Vancouver overtook PyeongChang 56-53. I almost fell off my couch with excitement when IOC president Jacques Rogge said “Vancouver”. I couldn’t believe it.
Seven years have
passed and final prepara-tions are underway to make these the best Games ever. The Olympic flame is on the final leg of its 106-day journey before the Feb. 12 lighting in downtown Van-couver, visiting more than 1,030 communities over the past several months. It will be here in Abbotsford on Sunday, Feb. 7 at Rotary Sta-dium from 5:45- 8 p.m. and spectators will be treated to lively local entertainment that includes award-win-ning vocalists the Sabir Sisters, native dance groups Hannah and the Inukshuks and much more.
Local resident Gerry Swan has been named as Abbotsford’s community torchbearer. He will have the honour of lighting the community cauldron during the show.
My alarm clock is ready to ring and I am planning to get up bright and early, put on my red Canada baseball hat and whatever else I can find that says Sea of Red as we welcom the torch to Mis-sion. My huge Canadian flag sounds like a terrific patri-
Long time coming, but the Games are finally here
with glowing hearts
otic symbol to wave.The Olympic Torch Com-
mittee will be hosting a community celebration on First Avenue this Monday, Feb. 8 from 5-6:30 a.m.
“For all the kids who get out of bed bright and
early we have 1,000 small torches, Coke hand flags, car flags, Olympic tattoos and buttons, Olympic torch flags, and much more. RBC bank has free handouts and Hemlock Resort will be on sight with free Olympic
souvenirs,” said Mission Deputy Director of Parks, Recreation & Culture Wendy McCormick, who has been diligently chairing the Expe-rience the Flame celebra-tions.
It’s our time to shine.
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German sing-alongThe German sing along wel-comes everyone who wants to join in, on Feb. 6 at 2 p.m., at the Peace Luther-an Church, 2029 Ware St., Abbotsford, at the corner of Marshall. For information call Ann at 604-859-0822.
Infant loss support An infant loss support group for mothers is starting in Abbotsford, with time for sharing, professional guest speakers and creating mem-ory books. The first meet-ing is Feb. 8 from 7-9 p.m. at Eterna Counselling & Con-sulting, 203-2276 Clearbrook Rd., Abbotsford, and it will continue for 10 weeks. Con-tact 778-786-2233 or e-mail [email protected] confirm your spot.
Poets open micListen to poets or recite your own at the Poets Pot Pourri open mic reading, Feb. 9 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Clearbrook Library, 32320 George Ferguson Way, Abbotsford. It is free and open to the public.
Mission Toastmasters Master the art of communi-cation. Mission Toastmasters meets Feb. 9 at the Cedar-brooke Chateau 32331 7th Ave., Mission, in the theatre room, 7:30 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Guests are welcome.
Immigrant helpersCommunity volunteers are needed to be hosts to new immigrants to Canada. Vol-unteers should be aged 17 and up. Call Chandra at the Gladwin Language Centre, 604-854-8160, come by 3145 Gladwin Rd., Abbotsford, or see www.gladwinlanguage-centre.com.
Family justice Fathers and mothers can meet up with family justice professionals and ask ques-tions about the system from a judge, counsellors, clini-cians and others on Feb. 9 from 7-9 p.m. at Abbotsford Community Services, 2420 Montrose St., Abbotsford. The evening is free. Call Ed Friesen at 604-850-7303, ext. 3404 or see www.abbydads.ca.
Baby, preschool storiesFun for young ones at the Mission Library, 33247 Second Ave., with stories, songs, puppets and more on Wednesdays until March 3 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Stories for babies up to 23 months old is on from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays until March. No registration
needed for these sessions. For more call 604-826-6610.
Hominum meetsThe Hominum Fraser Val-ley Chapter is a support and discussion group to help gay, bi-sexual or questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single. It meets Feb. 26 at 7:30 p.m. For information and location call Don at 604-329-9760 or Art at 604-462-9813.
Retirees meetThe Central Fraser Valley Retirees branch of FSNA meet Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at the Abbotsford Recreation Centre at 2499 McCallum Rd., Abbotsford. Guest Lynda Stewart will speak about the MEDOC travel insurance pro-gram. Call Gary at 604-820-9179 for more details.
Indoor winter marketThe Mission Farmers’ Mar-ket is inside at the corner of James Street and Second Avenue Feb. 13, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tangerine Harmony per-forms at noon. Soup, sand-wiches, baking, chocolates, jewellery, crafts, preserves, plants, grass-fed beef cuts. There are still spaces for non-profit groups and vendors. To book e-mail Carol at [email protected]
Clearbrook library storiesThe Clearbrook library at 23230 George Ferguson Way, Abbotsford, offers family sto-ry time for ages 2 to 5 years on Thursdays until February 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. with stories, songs, rhymes and finger plays. No registra-tion needed. The library also has Baby Time for newborns to 23 months, on Feb. 8 and Feb. 15 at 10:30 a.m. Regis-tration is required by Jan. 25 for this popular program that introduces babies and par-ents to children’s literature, song, rhyme and rhythm. Call 604-859-7814.
Mission seniorsThe Mission Seniors Associa-tion meets Feb. 25 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mission Legion (32627 Logan Ave.). Memberships ($10) are now due. The board will also meet at the new MSA office at Play Station (33100 10th Ave., Mission,) on March 4 for the AGM and elections. Get involved in creating a seniors activity centre. MSA office is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Call 604-814-2188.
Women with cancerThe Women with Cancer sup-port group is meets month-ly at the Superstore, 2855 Gladwin Rd., Abbotsford. For information call the Cana-dian Cancer office at 604-852-1410.
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Family storiesThe MSA Centennial Library (33660 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford) invites you to their family story times on Wednesdays to Feb. 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., stories, songs, rhymes and finger plays for children ages 2 to 5. Registration not required. Call 604-853-1753.
Teen readers wantedLeague of Extraordinary Readers Teen Book Club meets Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Mis-sion Community Library,
33247 Second Ave., Mission. Food, fun, great books and new friends. No registration required. For more call the library at 604-826-6610.
Mission ToastmastersMission Toastmasters meets Tuesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the theatre at the Cedarbrooke Chateau, 32331 Seventh Ave., Mis-sion. Visitors, new members are welcome.
English practiseEvery Thursday from 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. at the Mission Community Library (33247
Second Ave., Mission) prac-tice your English and make new friends. No registra-tion necessary. For more call 604-826-6610.
International KnittingJoin other knitters every Thursday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Mission Library (33247 Second Ave., Mis-sion). Experience is not necessary, no registration required. Call the library at 604-826-6610.
Free youth skateThe Mission Optimist Club offers free skate sessions
for youth (up to 18 years of age) on March 4 during public skate sessions from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Mis-sion Leisure Centre, (club pays admission, skate and helmet rental). Contact Trish Raw at 604-820-0779.
Dads and kidsDads and kids aged 5-12 can a drop in to the Abbotsford Recreation Centre on Mon-days from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for obstacle courses, crazy games and more. The cost is $2.80 per child, fathers are free. For more call Jeff at 604-613-3487.
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They’ll dance to digitally looped music composed and performed by cellist Cris Derksen.
“It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime events you really need to make an effort to go out to. If you have small kids, take them,” said Latham.
The artistic talents of the city’s youth will also be on display in a unique digital exhibition, at Sunday’s extravaganza, and at the Olympic LiveSite over the next few weeks at the Abbotsford Recreation Centre.
The Glowing Hearts digital ‘quilt’ exhibit will feature up to 70 artists aged 13 to 18, who created pieces expressing their love for Abbotsford, for Canada and what having the Games here have meant to them.
At the LiveSite, a big screen will show the colourful pieces one at time, with accompanying comments from the artist about their artwork.
“All the ideas are developed here in Abbotsford. There’s a whole lot of stuff going on,” said Kat Wahamaa, cultural programs manager at The Reach Gallery Museum.
“The community should come out to see what the community has cre-ated. I think they’ll be delighted.”
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CHRISTINA TOTH
Heritage Park Secondary school stu-dent Tosh Sutherland will be putting his best feet forward, with tap shoes
on, at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies on Feb. 12.
Sutherland, 17, was invited by VANOC scouts to audition last fall, said his mom Bronwen Sutherland, the manager of opera-tions at Mission’s Clarke Theatre.
He’s danced since he was 12 and is now under the tutelage of Bonnie Jean Anderson at the Dance Factory in Abbotsford.
At the World Tap Dancing Championships in Germany in early December, the Grade 12 student earned fifth place in adult male category.
Tosh has been rehearsing for the VANOC show in Vancouver since November, up to three or four times a week recently at B.C. Place, the actual venue for the opening show.
All Sutherland can say about what Tosh is doing is that her son is tapping at the ceremonies. Tosh is also in theatre and he
often helps his dad, Mark Sutherland, who is the sound man at several local events, including shows at the Clarke, and the summertime Twilight Concerts in the Park.
“He loves helping his dad. He also gets top marks. Kids these days are so amazing,” said the some-what proud mom.
Crich thrilled to welcome the worldAlthough he’ll face a vast crowd at the Win-
ter Games opening ceremonies, Dan Crich is reveling in his Olympic experience so far.
A Grade 12 student at Heritage Park Sec-ondary, Crich recently put his thoughts into an award-winning essay for the District of Mission.
“I am proud I am able to serve my country and bring my skills to the greatest, most impressive and out-of-this-world event Canada has ever seen,” he wrote. The oppor-tunity has given him new experiences and friendships he hopes will last a lifetime.
A busy teen who plays soccer with the U-18 Hotspurs and volunteers at cancer fundrais-ers, Crich is outgoing and doesn’t usually suffer from stage fright, but he admits he’s got serious butterflies.
“Just the idea of performing in front of 60,000 people at B.C. Place, and in front of three billion on TV, it’s really nerve-wrack-ing,” he said.
Even so, Crich said the best reward is just being part of the whole over-the-top event. The Olympic spirit he has witnessed hasalready made an indelible impression onhim.
“When I think Olympic spirit, I think abouta performer in my segment that is travellingfrom San Francisco to participate in theopening ceremony,” he wrote in his essay.
“I think about the choreographers dedi-cating their time, coming from all over the world, spending countless hours teachingus our parts. I think about the thousands ofdevoted volunteers dedicating their time tomake the Olympic Games a success. WhenI think Olympic spirit, I think about howmy country will be hosting the world in amonth, and how I have the honour to be anambassador to people of all races, cultures and religions.
“A friend once told me that life is not measured by the breaths we take, but the moments that take your breath away. To thepeople of Vancouver, the people of Canada,and all people from around the world: pre-pare to have your breath taken away.”
Watch for the boys at the opening show. Both students will also be out Monday morn-ing to help out with the torch welcomingceremonies in downtown Mission.
◗ The Monday morning event is on from 5a.m. to 6:30 a.m. and will include VANOCCEO John Furlong and Darlene Poole, thewidow of Jack Poole who was the chairman ofthe 2010 Olympic organizing committee.
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Music
Cinnamon ToastClayburn Gallery Coffee-house presents Cinnamon Toast Funk (the name says it all) tonight from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Next week Mark Wolfe offers cover tunes from the 60s to the present. Gourmet Gallery is at 300-3033 Immel St., Abbotsford. Call 604-504-0899.
Blues at the churchCorey Lavigne Band plays blues, rock and country on Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at the historic Dewdney Pub in Dewdney, five minutes east of Mission, at 8793 River Road South. Call 604-826-4762 for more information.
Hardy and friendsThe House of James cof-feehouse in Abbotsford is hosting a concert with Cathy Hardy, Kevin Boese and band this Saturday Feb 6. Concert begins at 8 p.m. and admis-sion is a suggested donation of $10. See more information at www.houseofjames.com or 604-852-3701.
Big B SaloonJoin Brent Lee for an acoustic show on Sundays at 7 p.m. in the Big B Saloon in the Bel-levue Hotel (32998 First Ave., Mission). Call 604-826-9814 for details.
Get up to the micRoger Potter hosts an open mic stage every Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Dewdney Pub. Solos, duos or more are all good as long as it’s acous-tic. There is also blues jam every Sunday from 3-7 p.m., or later if the joint is hoppin’. The pub is at 8793 River Road South, five minutes east of Mission on the Lougheed Hwy. Call 604-826-4762.
More open jamsRoger Potter brings his open mic nights to Abbotsford on Thursdays at the Halftime Bar & Grill, at Dogwood Bowling & Billiards, 13-33550 South Fraser Way. Singers and acoustic musicians welcome.
Duke of Dublin The Duke of Dublin Olde Irish Pub offers live music, from Celtic to contemporary, from local and regional per-formers every evening from 8 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The Duke is at 33720 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford.
Merv TremblayJam with Merv Tremblay & the Silverados on Sundays from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
at the Witch of Endor pub, at 227th and Dewdney Trunk Road. Call 604-820-7666 for details.
Finnegan’s PubBaby Jane plays this Friday and Saturday at Finnegan’s Pub in Abbotsford, with top tunes from 80s and 90s, 9:30 p.m. to closing. Also DJ from Thursday to Saturday eve-nings. Finnegan’s is at
Country for HaitiCountry 107.1 FM hosts an all-ages Country for Haiti benefit concert on tonight at the Coast Chilliwack Hotel with Ken McCoy, Nikki Wer-ner and special guests. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m., and seating is limited to 300. Admission is by donation, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going to the Salvation Army Haiti Relief. Tax receipts avail-able for donations of $25 or more. Look for updates on the benefit concert at www.country1071.com.
German sing-alongThe German sing along is on Feb. 6 at 2 p.m., at the Peace Lutheran Church, 2029 Ware St., Abbotsford, at the corner of Marshall. Call Ann at 604-859-0822.
Poetry
Poets open micListen to poets or recite your own at the Poets Pot Pourri open mic reading, Feb. 9 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Clearbrook Library, 32320 George Ferguson Way, Abbotsford. It is free and open to the public.
Local art
People at PlayPeople At Play is a mixed media exhibit of historical leisure activities, on until Feb. 20, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, at the Mission Art Gallery, and at around town. Reception is tonight at 7 p.m. at the MAG. On Feb. 18, the proj-ect sponsors a performance at the Clarke Foundation Theatre with Voices of One. Artworks on the theme are still wanted, as are volun-teers. Contact Sharon at 604-615-6082 or e-mail [email protected].
MAG Staber show The Mission Arts Council pres-ents the 10th annual Peggy Staber Memorial Show until Jan. 30 at the Mission Arts Centre, 33529 First Ave., Mis-sion. Proceeds go to a bur-sary fund for young aspiring artists. Get details at MAG at 604-826-0029.
Kariton GalleryThe Abbotsford Photo Arts Club exhibit is on until Feb.
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Paper WheatThis Canadian classic is per-formed at the University of the Fraser Valley theatre, 45635 Yale Rd., Chilliwack, with evening shows on Feb. 5 and 6 and a matinée on Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. Tickets range in price from $12 to $18. Call 604-795-2814, e-mail [email protected], or visit the website at www.ufv.ca/theatre
Cats at YaleYale Secondary School musi-cal theatre students pres-ents Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Weber, on Feb. 7 at 2:30 p.m., and Feb. 11, 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Abbey Arts Centre, 2329 Crescent Way, Abbotsford. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased in person at the school at 34620 Old Yale Rd., Abbotsford, or call ahead to 604-853-0778 to reserve seats.
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Friday night danceSentimental Journey is onthe stage tonight from Abbotsford Seniors Asso-ciation hall (33889 Essen-dene Ave., Abbotsford) from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Costis $5.50 for members and$6 for non-members. Nextweek it will be the MidnightEagles. Contact Jodie fortickets at 604-850-2465.
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Afive-game losing skid and 11 regulars out of the lineup wasn’t
enough to keep Abbotsford Heat head coach Jim Playfair from offering his rather com-ical insight into the Olympic mens ice hockey event.
A hint: Canada won’t be finishing second or third.
“I talked to Brian Burke the other day and I just wished him good luck with that silver medal they’re going to win,” Playfair said satirically about a chat he had with Team U.S.A.’s general manager.
“I would say Sweden – actually I would go Finland because of Miikka Kiprusoff is going to be a real nice look-ing bronze on their necks.”
Insert drum roll here.“I think abso-
lutely Canada w i t h t h e i r mindset of play-ing at home, I think with what t h e y ’ v e g o t established as a group, I think their coaching staff is extreme-ly strong . . . That’s how I see it playing out,” said the coach.
A lot easier said than done.
Ap a r t f r o m a stacked Canadian team that features the likes of Sid-ney Crosby and Vancouver Canuck Roberto Luongo, there’s more firepower than the hockey Gods know what to do with.
There are the Russians with some guy named Alex Ovechkin.
The Swedes feature two-thirds of the hottest trio in hockey in the Sedin twins.
So it was no surprise that Heat tough guy J.D. Watt steered clear of any predic-tions.
“The men’s hockey is going to be a lot closer,” he said.
“I don’t know, it’s tough to make a prediction when you’ve got that many good teams but I really hope that Canada takes it.”
But he didn’t hold back his thoughts on the Canadia-
womens ice hockey squad, winners of back-to-back gold medals at the ’02 and ’06 Olympics.
“I really think the Canadian girls are going to take gold,” said Watt.
“They’ve got some great up- a n d - c o m i n g young players . . . so I think they’re going to be a force.”
Although the Heat will be on the road begin-ning Feb. 12 – the same day the 2010 Win-ter Olympics officially begin
– one player will be watch-ing Team Canada with extra enthusiasm.
Defenceman Keith Sea-brook will watch his older brother Brent don the red and white in an effort to bring Canada its second mens ice hockey gold medal since 1952.
And while the recent medi-ocre play of his own goalies has Playfair going back and forth between Matt Keetley and David Shantz, he left no doubt who he would put between the pipes when team Canada takes to the ice against Norway Feb. 16.
“You’ve got to go to Martin Brodeur for sure . . .out of respect and big game perfor-mance,” Playfair said.
“I think [Roberto] Luongo will be a factor, especially because it is in Vancouver.”
Playfair picks Marty between Canada’s pipes
The Norwegian Olympic hockey is coming to Abbotsford on Feb. 10, when team Norway takes to the ice for a fast-
paced game against the UBC Thunderbirds.The teams are governed by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Fed-
eration. The mens team is coached by Roy Johansen, whose best finish at the Olympics was in 1972 for eighth place.
The University of British Columbia team is made up of mostly former major junior players with 14 having played their junior careers in the WHL and three in the OHL.
On offence they are led by first liners Brandon Campos
and Justin McCrae. Tyler Ruel, an NCAA transfer from Wayne State, leads all UBC scorers with 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) and is tied for 10th in Canada West league scoring.
Defenceman Craig Lineker leads all T-Bird rearguards with 11 points. In net, the T-Birds split time between fourth-yearFrancois Thuot and rookie Jordan White.
“We are excited to be playing a game against an Olympicteam from Norway. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experienceand we hope that it will be a great experience for bothteams,” said T-Birds’ coach Milan Dragicevic of the exhibi-tion match.
The game starts at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the AbbotsfordEntertainment and Sports Centre (33800 King Road). Doorsopen at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.50, $15 on the day of game,and are on sale only at the AESC box office.
Team Norway takes on UBC at Abby’s AESC
Heat’s Seabrook likes brother Brent’s chances
– TIMES FILE
Abbotsford Heat head coach likes Brodeur over Vancou-ver’s Roberto Luongo in net.
“I talked to Brian
Burke the other day
and I just wished him
good luck with that
silver medal they’re
going to win.”
– Jim Playfair Heat head coach
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