Kirsten Barnes raising funds
to join nat’l Olympic team

KIRSTEN BARNES is at-
tempting to row herself to
Barcelona, Spain.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

The West Vancouver resident
won two gold medals in the 199i
World Rowing Championships
held in Vienna. She is part of the
Canadian Women’s Rowing team
and is now looking forward to
joining the Canadian Olympic
team at the Olympics in
Barceiona.

But Barnes needs mere than
mere physical ability to compete
in the Olympics.

She needs money.

-That’s where the West Van-
couver Foundation has lent its
support. It has given Barnes,
through the Canadian Rowing
team, $6,000 to help pay some of
the bills she will encounter while
she competes in Spain. -

*“It’s assistance for my trans-
portation and my living expenses.
The (federal) government funding
is minimal sc this really helps,’’
says Barnes. ‘It takes a lot of
stress off of us.”’

Jim Cameron is the chairman of
the West Vancouver Foundation.
It is a- non-profit, non-political
organization.

“It’s a’community founda-

tion,’? says Cameron. ‘‘We rely |

- on our donations coming from the
community as opposed to cor-

porations, although we do get
some contributions from corpora-
tions."”

Financial contributions are
placed in an endowment fund. In-
terest from the money is
distributed each year within the
areas of culture, science, medicine
and education in West Vancouver.

But not just anyone can receive
money from the Wes: Vancouver
Foundation. ©

“When people make a request
to us for funding we first of all
determine if it (the organization)
falls within the four categories
mentioned. Then we determine if
the organization is responsible and
if they need it (funding),”* says
Cameron.

Following that, the foundation’s
grants committee will make a rec-
ommendation to its board of
directors regarding the allocation
of funds.

Cameron says the West Van-
couver Foundation receives about
25 requests per year for funding.

The foundation was started by
former West Vancouver mayor
Derrick Humphreys in 1979 and
the first donations to the founda-
tion totalled $21,700. Today the
foundation’s funds total $42,000
and Cameron says that by the end
of 1992 the foundation hopes to
raise $1 maillion.

“I'm pretty optimistic that we
can achieve that goal because the
people on the foundation are very
capable,’’ says Cameron.

He adds that the foundation at-
tempts to make all of its dona-

NEWS proto Paul McGrath

‘KIRSTEN BARNES (holding gold medals she won at the 1991 World Rowing Championships). ac-

cepts a cheque from Jim Cameron of the West Vancouver Foundation to enable her to compete fo
the Olympics in Barcelona this summer. SOM,

tions in West Vancouver or to
organizations based in North
Vancouver but whose operations
also benefit West Vancouver.
Recent recipients of donations
from the West Vancouver Foun-
dation are: the West Vancouver
Library Expansion program,
scholarships to the West Van-
couver Secondary School, the
YMCA Friday Teen Drop-In
Centre, the Judith Marcuse Dance

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