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BM Layne C Christonson

“Comin unity Repo Reporter ,
* dayne@senewscom

. ~ DRAGON-boat racer
 Blisabeth Villeneuve
* dacswt care-to finish
‘fitst across the line at
this weekend’s acess
oe She and her Maks are on
anathe: nilsson,

“We're Hot there to win the
dragonshoat race,” sald the 45.
year-old North Vancouver rest-
dent, “We're there to wit the:

un “rnc apainst breast cancer
survivors,

“They. are
_ Millenetive and her team-mates,
” “There are 65 women who com:

i prise the three teas of Abreast,

n'a Boat that will race Saturday
and, if thé advance, Sunday in
Halse Creek 2 8

ta Fourteen are ftom North,

and West Vancouver, All have *

battled fyreast cancer, Some are
* still in the fight, ,
. One. woman’s . cancer, has
spread.. Another racer under.
i}went a mastectomy three weeks
“6 apo, Ie was her second, Already,
“she’s back paddling, 4
Phe,
each other, They are all on the:
._ Same missions a 8 Me,
“ “There area few, women.’

raw strength frony:

whose nig throtiph treat
mont ve biY we don't diyell on
that,” says Villeneuve, *Our
dessngte [se poes an
Jvad’ stroke

Larson Vlementary for 20

calicer 24 years Age, “1 was one
af the lucky ness! she sald,
Belg the oldest stievivar, 1s a
badge of honor, ‘The youngest
padaller is 31,

Coverdale hag seven chil
dren and 17 grandehildren, She
rows heeause it makes her feel
good and she’ mi the carna-
‘raderie, but she jalso rows for
them, "

“E have three daughters and
eight grand. daughters,” “she
sald. “And Dm very concerned
Jfabout the cancer research that
“news to be done” 4"

* Jacki “Ralph Jameson - has
been “cancer-free since
November (1994, She took. up
racing after’ meeting last year’s

Abreast fn a‘ Boat team-mem:

* bers at a, breast cancer forum in

“October at \West. Vancouver
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Cancer Society, thought “Ohl,
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ESTHER Mataubuchl and 13 other breast-cancer survivors from the North Shore are
among the 65 women who are Abreast ina Boat. Three teams wilt race this Saturday.

«At that forum , Jamieson and

other breast-cancer survivors
learned ‘that members of the
original Abreast in a Boat team
were part of a study led by Dr,

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theory was proved wrong, Aho

all 24 racers Mnished last year’s
drigon-boat ntee without hie i!
Ade eflvet of lymphoma. ;

Since then, Abreast lial Hon '
Tits taken On few members aie
trspired teams In Vietorla,::
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Recrultment is typ and ations ©
dance ty high, sald coach Sherr;
Niesen a pli siotheraplst’ who'y ©
comp seting her dastoral work
at UBC's Sports Medicine.
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“We have the highest comes

iltanee of all the teams,' » sald
iesen, “Nobody evetsmiisses ”
practices, Nobody ever qults, ”

Ralph Jamieson believes {t's
the camaraderie that binds the
teams together, “It’s been such

an uplifting experience forall 2

we women,”

Villeneuve, who didn’t qual-
ify for the team in its inaugural ©
year -— her. breast ‘cancer was
diagnosed just last. June, if
agrees that membership has its:
privileges. “It’s a wonderful

‘group of people”. °°

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