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The culminating highlight
of the Vancouver Jaycees Sea
Festival celebrates its 10th
birthday this Sunday. ;

It’s the World Champion-
ship Bathtub Race from
Nanaimo to Kitsilano Beach,
Vancouver. The race, which |
draws tubbers: from across
Canada, the U.S.A., Austra-
lia, New Zealand and Eng-
land, runs across the Georgia
Strait, a 36-mile stretch’ of
open water which often has

waves up to six feet and

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The Great International
Bathiub Race began in 1967
when Glen Galloway, a real
estate salesman, suggested
the zany idea of a bathtub
race to his boss, Frank Ney,
now Mayor of Nanaimo, as a.
fun spectacle to ‘celebrate
Nanaimo’ s ee birthday.

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A new experience i in ballet |
awaits. Lower Mainland aud-
iences this weekend with the
visit to the Queen Elizabeth
Theatre of eight soloists from
the Royal Danish Ballet.

The . show, presented by

David Y.H. Lui, runs Friday,
July 15, and Sunday, July 17
(NOT Saturday) at B: 30 p.m.
on each of the two evenings.

The Danish dancers, on
their first North American
tour, perform excerpts from
the ballets of the 19th
century Danish choreograph-
er August. Bournonville,
whose. exuberant works such °
as “‘Napoli’’ and ‘Flower
Festival in Genzano”’ are the
specialty of the’ Danish
company. em |

reception from audiences
and critics during their

appearances. in ‘New York —
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Tickets ‘are available at .
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minimum and except for services throughout ‘the — spirit developed by this fun~
safety features such as. Western world. ‘Overnight, contest (no- money prizes)
wearing a lifebelt, having an. Nanaimo was proclaimed the has prompted many. volun-—

escort craft and the ability to - ‘Bathtub. Capital: of. the tary. contributions. of time
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the craft should conform.to ‘Each year ‘on’ the “third. The race is: open. to

the. normal shape of a Sunday in July, the. bathtub everyone who has attained
bathtub: and ‘that the tub extravaganza. draws. more the age of sixteen and who 7
engine should. not exceed six . than 200. entrants of all ages, can sail a. bathtub. ‘For an g-

horse power. ee So a) enjoyable. ‘Fun . Sunday’”’ &
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media, appeais by an. indian Loyal Nanaimo Bathtub Soc-

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and, pre-potlatch festivities, tions of the tub, the engirie,
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infiamed. with what Frank ulations have bee kept to
described: as_ “contagious minimum and the imagin- .
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