NEWS photo Gindy Bellamy

OVER 750 runners from ail walks of fife ran (he 10 km Mountain Express run put on at Cypress Bowl to gather
funds for leukemia and other cancer research. Event organizers were pleased with the $20,000 raised and prom-

ise to host the event on the mountain apain next year.

GYMNASTS BRING HOME GOLD

NORTH VANCOUVER gymnasts
heiped lead B.C. to a first overall
finish in the senior women’s sec-
tion of the Western Summer
Games held Aug. 9 to I] in
Regina, Saskatchewan.

Tracy Wilson, 18,
with the Best Ever Program at
North Vancouver's Flicka Gym
along with the other five meinbers
of the B.C. team, finished first
overall with 36.90 points followed
by teammate Ursula Trpin, 16,
with 35.95 points and Manitoba's
Lynette Wittmeier, who finished in
third place overall with 35.85
points.

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All other members of the B.C.

women's team finished in the top
10.
Lisa Onno, 16, was fifth with

35.35 points, followed by Heather

Andrews, 15, who finished eighth
overall tied with teammate Helen
Carmichael, 14, with 35.00 points
and Kristin Wingfield, 16, who

Chena team 12th in

CHENA Swim Club’s senior
women’s relay team placed 12th
out of 90 competing teams at the
Canadian Senior Nationals held in
Calgary, Alberta in late July.

Coached by Jan Henderson, the
team was made up cf Andra

Anglin, Suzy Stanton, Lisa

Woods, Michelle Woods and
Catherine Schier.

Stanton piaced 14th, seventh
and 1ith respectively in the 200-
metre backstroke, 200-metre
freestyle and 200-metre individual
medley.

Woods placed ith and 12th in
the 200-metre and 100-metre but-

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RUN RAISES $290,000

Race runners
aid leukemia

ORGANIZERS of the first
Leukemia run Sunday at
Mountain say they wall defin

annual Mountain Express for
Cypress Bowl on Hollyburn

itcly stage the event again next

year ater an estimated $20,000 was raised by approximately

750 runners.

Papress  co-oreanmizer Wayne
Popowich, whose 24-scar-old sister
died July 18 after no suitabie bone
marrow donor could be found tor
her, said Monday he was ‘tex-
tremely happy with the results. We
had adjusted our original estimates
oF raising S28.000 down to
STES.000, so Cour ostiemely
pleased.’

Original idea for the run came
from Philip Eastwood, who, along
with Popowich and Jeff Clark,
helped bring the event to fruition,

IDEA REALIZED

“J started with the idea in
January. To end up with $20,000
and 750 runners was just great.”
Eastwood said.

The !0-kilometre Mountain Ex-
press featured a race course of
varied lerrain through the downhill
and cross-country areas of the
mountain.

Approximately 100 volunteers
helped with race-day organization.

Participants included 12

members of the Squamish Indian
Band, who ran in memory of Eli
Lewis. The six-year-old boy died
March 6 of acute leukemia.

Money raised fram the Moun-
tain Express will zo to the Cana-
dian Cancer Society for leukemia
research and io help fund a Cana-
dian Red Cross) bone marrow
doner unit.

AWARENESS RAISED

In addition to raising money, the
race was organized to help raise
the awareness of the various forms
at leukemia research and treatment
of the disease in the Greater Van-
couver area.

The run was co-sponsaied by the
Canadian Cancer Society, Cypress
Bowl Recreations Lid., Labatt's
and Pepsi.

Eastwood said the run would
definitely be held again next year
at Cypress Bowl.

“We had great cooperation with
the people at Cypress Bowl." he
said.

GOLD SNAPPED UP

Chena swimmer
a relay winner

NORTH SHORE Chena Swim
Club swimmer Suzy Stanton
brought home five gold medals
from the Western Canada Games
held recently in Regina.

finished in a 10th place tie with
Manitoba’s Suzanne Villeneuve.
Both gymnasts scored 74.90
points.

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terfly, while Anglin, recovering
from a knee injury, managed to
place 22nd in the 200-metre
breaststroke.

All three women are eligible for
provincial funding.

Schier swam a personal best time
in the 200-metre butterfly event.

Stanton won her medals in three
versonal and two relay events: the
100 backstroke (time 1:07.00), the
200-metre indivdual medley (time
2:25.6), the 200-metre freestyle
(time 2:07.10, a new games record)
and the 4 X 200-metre and the 4 X
100-metre freestyle relays.

British Columbia was the
Outstanding winner in the competi-
tion, beating Alberta by over 300
roints.

MEN'S TEAM

Blues tryout

THE CAPILANO College Blues
men's soccer team will be holding
open tryout camps Aug. 29 and 30
from 10 a.m. to noon both days.

Anyone attending the college for
the fall semester is eligible to turn
out for the team.

Tryouts are held at the Capilano
College soccer field.

For information
lacobellis at 986-1911.

call Joe