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Local recreation departments
host B.C.-wide convention

FOURTEEN MONTHS’ planning and organizing by 20
members of the North Vancouver Recreation Commission
and the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department
will conie to fruition May 11 to 13 when the provincial Rec-
reation and Parks Conference rolls into the Whistler Con-

vention Centre.

The conference is sponsored by
the B.C. Recreation and Parks
Association. The conference pro-
gram is made up of 36 educational
sessions, ranging from Managing
the Future, Teen and Youth
Workshops and Recreation Ser-
vices for Seniors.

The keynote address will be
delivered by Sharon Wood, the
first North American woman to
climb Mount Everest. Wood will
focus on the exploration of human
potential, turning a dream into re-
ality, and the process of setting
goals and following through to at-
tain them.

Conference organizers are ex-
pecting to draw about 500
delegaies from across the province
to the event.

The annual conference is usually
organized by the parks and recre-
ation staff working in the hosting
community. But said conference
chairman and assistant director of
West Vancouver’s Parks and Rec-
reation Bob Kusch, ‘‘There is no
parks and recreation staff in
Whistler, so the North Shore join-
ed forces to organize the event.”

Kusch has personally spent the

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This year is also the 125th anni-
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Geneva Conventions, in which the
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national sign of neutrality on the
battlefield. Henri Dunant, the
founder of Red Cross, was born
May 8 and devoted his life to pro-
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which side they fought on.

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past two years working to bring
the conference together, and
estimates other volunteers have
dedicated 200 hours each to the
project.

“The association’s main objec-
tive with this is to communicate
with its members all that’s happen-
ing in this field in the province. it’s
the hub for the members,” he said.

Many of the planning issues
West Vancouver is presently
wrestling with are common to
other changing communities.

Said Kusch: ‘In West Van-
couver, the leisure issues include
dealing with the aging population,
the declining children’s popula-
tion, the issue of aging recreational
facilities and the issue of the grow-
ing costs to maintain the expansive
parkland we have in the communi-
ty. Per capita, we’ve probably got
more parkland than most com-
munities in Canada.”

The B.C. Recreation and Parks
Association, the sponsor of the
event, was formed in 1954 as a
non-profit organization and public
interest group to enhance leisure
services.

ence. As community and voluntary
organizations mature and expand,
the business acumen and experi-
ence of senior decision-makers is in
more demand than ever. Without
the leadership abilities of business
people, organizations such as the
Red Cross could not operate.

One volunteer with the Red
Cross is Ledford Lilley, currently
serving as president of the B.C.-
Yukon Division. With the
organization for the past seven
years, Lilley, 47, began with the
division’s finance committee.
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BOB KUSCH of the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department (left) and Bruce Ray of the North
Vancouver Recreation Commission are prepared for the arrival at Whistler of 560 recreation delegates from
across the province. Tike two North Shore recreation departments organized the conference.

with Coopers and Lybrand, a
Vancouver firm of chartered ac-
countants.

“Volunteering offers lots of op-
tions,’’ Lilley said. ‘‘Many
business people I know provide
volunteer support to their profes-
sional and business organizations;
others lock for a different en-
vironment from their workplace,
such as the Red Cross.””

To find out more about volun-
teering for the Red Cross locally
contact the North Vancouver
Branch at 988-7115.

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