Deep Cove resident on charity canoe trip

CAPILANO COLLEGE: grad
Frank Wolf is heading up the
creek, paddle in hand.

By Paul Dillon
Contributing Writer

The 24-year-old Deep Cove resi-
dent and his travelling companion are
well into a seven month, 9,200-kito-
Inetre (5,704-mile) charity cance trip
from Saint John, New Brunswick, to
“Vancouver,

It. is the first time anyone -has

attempted a cross-country voyage of |

this length in one shot.

“Eve always loved canoeing, I'm
an instructor, so this is sort of a dream
come true.” Woif said during an inter-
view outside the Parliament buildings
in Ottawa recently.

Wolf, Roman Rockliffe, 24, and
their yellow, (6-metre) 20-foot canoe
» Were an Odd sight,on the Hill.

The modern-day voyageurs, sun-
burnt and anxious to get back in the
sawater, were waiting to meet Canadian
Heritage Minister Marcel Dupuis,

They had faxed the prime minister
but he. was a no-show.

"“*We don’t’ mind doing this; it’s an
important: puirt of the trip, but the

“machine can’t stop or we'll get iced -

‘in. before we: reach Vancouver,”
“Rockliffe said.

Rockliffe began organizing the
journey, which began in the Bay of
Fundy April 18, after experiencing
‘first-hand the devastating toll AIDS
_ has taken in West Africa. «

. “YE taught ‘English in Northern
~-Nigeria.a couple of years ago and
“when; selasses began in September I

had 84 students. By Apri! there were
only 46 kids left. They'd ali died from
AIDS,” he said. “I was living with
that horror so | decided to do some-
thing about it”

‘The goal of the C2C voyage is to
raise $1 million for Photographers
and Friends United Against AIDS, a
charity which will donate the money
to organizations that minister to
women and children with the deadly
virus. “So far the response has been
pretty good,” Rockliffe said. “Some
people are giving us cash along the
way and others are putting it in a bank
account. *Ve've also had a lot of sup-
port from our sponsors.”

A notoriously: private Montreal
lawyer took ‘time out to discuss the
finer points of their trip.

“It was funny, we sat down for a
cafeteria lunch with Pierre Trudeau
while we were in Montreal,” said
Wolf, who taught cross-country ski-
ing. at Holiybum Ridge last winter.
“We went up to his office and he
pulled out the maps. He gave us some
advice and we talked about a trip he’s

. planned up north this summer, a river

no one’s ever run before. He's in

* amazing shape for a guy who's 7.”

The pair face an uphill battle until
they hit the Continental, Divide,

ascending ‘through the Great Lakes,

paddling upstream to Lake Winnipeg,
across the Prairies | on- the
Saskatchewan, before a backbreaking -
180-kiiometre (112-mile) portage to
the Fraser River headwaters near
Jasper. They ~ will have plenty of
opportunities to practice hauling the

load. The overland portions of the trip |
account for appfoximately 800 kilo- /
metres (496 miles) of the total.

Millions of dollars’ at stake,

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vate lots. :

“When asked about the possibility
of compensation,” he said:' “We

“haven't Jooked at any of that.”.
However, if Mountain Forest and
‘ove Forest are rezoned as parkland,
the zoning for the private lots -will
become legally non-conforming, he

said.”

“At a June 5 ‘council ‘meeting,
Palmer had taken the unusual step of
j requesting : that council ‘ask. for a
} eport on the financial implications 0 of

rezoning the urban reserves.

He said hundreds of millions of |
dollars are at’ stake if council rejects 2
development.

Council did not ask for the report.

Matergio also said a petition
requesting the urban reserves remain
parkland was misleading because the
10,600-signature : petition’ contained
the names of 2,594 people. who do
not live in North Vancouver District
or City, ‘

The possible rezoning of the
urban reserves wil] be the subject of a

; public hearing | in the fall.

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ishes seized

A . VANCOUVER woman who alerted used china shops
about her stolen Royal Doulton set is going to be setting
her table with the expensive dishes again. :

.. The dishes were recovered by the North Vancouver
RCMP on June 20 after employees of a local china shop, .
contacted by the woman, were subsequently telephoned by
a suspect. Police say they arrested two men who arrived
with the dishes at the store. The dishes were stolen a few
weeks earlier. A 36-year-old man anda 17-year-old teenag-
er, both of Burnaby, face charges of possessing stolen prop-
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They wil} need to spend at least 12
hours paddling each day to reach
Vancouver by their Nov.. 20 target
date, but say the toughest fight will be
mental.

We've both been ui tining for this
so J'm not too worried about that. [t's
all up here,” said Rockliffe tapping
his head. Donations for C2C can be
made to account 506900, at any
Canada Trust branch...

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