4 - A Feature Section of the North Shore News - June 9, 1982

Message from the President

Almost from the time the
final gun sounded in our
Western Division play-off
game with Edmonton last
November, the management
and coaching staff of the
B.C. Lions Football Club
have been working long,
hard hours to prepare for the
coming season.

An unbelievable amount
of effort has since gone into
the post-evaluation of our
1981 game performance, and
in the scouting and
recruiting of new players to
strengthen the team and
provide for replacements
and retirements.

AS we enter the new
season, all of us who are

closely associated with the
Club are looking forward to

will

to win

the games ahead, eagerly
and with a great deal of

optmism. We have a solid
group of young but seasoned
veteran players returning to
the team as well as an out-
standing crop of rookies. We
have a highly competent,
experienced and stable
coaching and training staff.
We have capable people
in our front office who are
managing, marketing and
administering the affairs of
the Club on a professional,
business-like basis. And,
perhaps most important of
all, we have the will to win!
We expect that the
Western Division of the
C.F.L. will again be highly
competitive this year, and
that the other Western teams

will be as strong or stronger
than they were last season.

| PAUL HIGGINS |

Major improvements can
also be anticipated in the
Eastern Division of the
League, now that the
Montreal situation seems to
be straightened out and
stronger management and
coaching ts in place in
Toronto. All m all, despite
the problems of the
economy, the coming C.F.L.
season looks like it will be
very exciting.

Many people are unaware
of the fact that the B.C.

Lions Football Club is a
community-owned organiz-
ation which represents not
only Greater Vancouver but
also the entire Province of
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Canadian Football League.
While the maim activity of
the Club is concerned with
operating a _ professional
football team, we are also
dedicated to the develop-
ment and support of amateur
football throughout the
Province.

Membership in the Club is
open to season ticket holders
and can be obtamed at
reasonable cost ($20
initiation and $20 annual
dues). Members have the
opportunity to participate in
a variety of Club functions
and, of course, to attend the
Annual Meeting and vote on
the election of Directors and
other Club matters.

The past few years have
not been easy ones for the
B.C. Lions Football Club.
However, with the solid
foundation of playing,
coaching and management
talent that we now have m
place, and with the opening
of the new stadium just a
year away, the future indeed
looks very much brighter.

The prime objective of the
B.C. Lions is to provide
winning, entertaining,
championship football for
British Columbia, and we
again this year will strive
mightily to accomplish this
goal. But win, lose or draw,
we intend to earn and retain
the loyalty and support of
the people of British
Columbia, which we believe
is vital to our future survival,
prosperity, and success.

Fourth
year
as club

president

Paul Higgins joined the
B.C. Lions’ Board of
Directors in 1977, and after
serving two years” as
Treasurer, ts now in his
fourth year as President of
the Club. In this capacity, he
heads the member-celected
Board of Directoms of the
football (cam, and
represents the Club on the
Canadian’ Football Leage
Board of Governors

Paul has had a longtume
involvement in amateur
sports as a player, coach and
executive A native of
Ontano, he ts a graduate of
the University of Toronto,
and = =a Chartered Ac
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Vancouver

West
since 1965
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of the Bonnush Columbia
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