Olympic bid share

Andrew McCredie

editor
andrew@usnews.com

THE Olympic Games.

For athletes, the words conjure up images of

gold medals, national anthems and heroic home-
comings.

For organizers, the words invoke visions of

community spirit. the world’s attention and last-
ing legacies.

On Thursday afternoon ar Cheers
Restaurant, it was the fatter group that took cen-
tre stage as Arthur Griffiths offered his rendition
of the proverbial “I have a dream” speech.

Since selling his interest in the the Vancouver
Canucks and Grizzlies last year, the 41-year-old
sVest Vancouver businessman has become the
point man on the Vancouver-Whistler bid for the
2010 Winter Games.

“These Games have unlimited potential for
all parties involved -— the community, education,
transportation,” Griffiths said at the North
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
“And not just for B.C., bur also for Canada.”

Griffiths said the Games would generate a net
surplus of in excess of $100 million and 15,000

jebs (not inciuding those required to upgrade
transportation infrastructure}

The Vancouver Whistler bid is compenng
with Calgary, which hosted the Winter Games in
1988, and Quebee City to host the 2010 Winter
Games. The key date is Now. 21 —- the day the
Canedian Olympic Association (COA! decides
which bid to hack. Onee the COA backs a city,
the nexe key date will come in 2003 when the
Invernational Olympic Committee decides on
the site for the 2010 Winter Games.

Tf successful, Griffiths and company will
embark on answering a million litte questions —
and a few big ones. The biggest?

“The corridor to Whistler and the resolution
of that issue,” Griffiths said of the suspect trans-
portation link between the Lower Mainiand and
the all-season resort town. “It's incumbent thar
when we go to the international level that a deci-
sion on the solution to the transportation to
Whistler is dealt with in advance.”

Another important aspect of landing the
Games will be strong community support to
host the international athletic competition,
According to Griffiths, recent surveys in Whistler
and Vancouver found that 83% and 82% of resi-
dents respectively are in favor of hosting the
2010 Games.

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mittee with a 17,997-name
petition in support of renaming
the area the Seymour Ancient
Groves Regional Park.

The. group is lobbying to
change the land use of off-
catchment lands in the Lower
Seymour Valley (below the
Seymour Dam) to protected
regional park.

The vailey is home to some
of the world’s largest cld-
growth fir and cedar trees.

The demonstration forest,
in which logging is allowed, is
managed by the Greater
Vancouver. Water — District
(GVYWD).

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ef the 5,600-hectare (13,838-
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