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They have come from alt over British Cobunibia,
hut circumstances fave put their Olsinpic
A aspirations on hold: over a dack of adequate
training faciilies,

With Obmmpic stars in their exes, the TW budding
gymnasts from the special Best-Rver training program
in’ North Vagcouser hopefuls who could faut
Canada in the medal running need desperately to
find facilities to amply accommodate their intessive
training needs,

In training for the high-competition Olympics —- the
pinnacle of athletic prowess --- esery day courts: since
the group has decided to move from now-crowded fa-
cilities, the search for space hiss been dificult,
hampering training.

Dreams might come effortiessly, but Galy through
lireless dedication can the Olympic longing be realized.
Going for gold is a chance few athletes ever see — to
have their hopes dashed over a techinicalily is some-
thing that must not happen.

Athletes face near-insurmountable odds in their bid
for the Olympics, and the public is honor-bound to see
that the spark of a dream is nurtured to become us
long-lived as the Olympic flame itself. Striving for ex-
cellence is a time-honored pursuit, and a pursuit that
Canada's Olympic hopefuls embrace with all their
youthful enthusiasm.

Canadians feel a swell of pride when their athletes
bes! the world and stand proud to receive their medals.
Dreams wait for no one — training, it seems, waits for
adequate facilities. Now more than ever, the Olympic
athletes-to-be need the public’s support.

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NEWS photos Noel Wright
ONE OF A RARE BREED...(Left) dack Scrivener, with wife Hazel and Forests Minister Dave Parker, exam-
ines plaque to be implanted in his honor in Garibaldi Park. (Right) Jack's “thank you’ for couatless tributes
and gifts.

A salute from friends te
a very special Canadian

Noel Wright

@ Sunday brunch ®

A QUIET DINNER with 30-40 Wardens. A scoutmaster before and Veterans Affairs Minister

friends and family on his retire-
ment was all North Van’s Jack
Scrivener knew about it until he
and wife Hazel walked into the
Canyon Gardens Thursday even-
ing--to be grected by a standing
ovation from over 200 guests in-
cluding Forests Minister Dave
Parker, Capilano MP Mary Coi-
lins, Mayors Marilyn Baker and
Den Lanskaii.

They came to honor the wartime
RCAF hero, shot down cover
Nuremburg to spend long months
as a PoW in Stalag Luft 1, who
devoted 46 selfless years to B.C.'s

and after his World War tI service,
he transferred to scouting’s pro-
fessional staff and rose to be
district. commissioner in Victoria
for 12 years. In 1977 he joined the
B.C. Forest Ass'n as a field super-
visor for the Junior Forest
Wardens—the ‘boy scouts of the
woods’’—and once again reached
the top as B.C.’s Chief Warden,
the post from which he’s just
retired.

The informal, infinitely warm
after-dinner ceremonies brought
Jack and his !oyai Hacc! countless
tributes and gifts: messages from
Prisne Minister Brian Mulroney

Boy Scouts and Junior Forest

NEWS photo

BOTTOM LINE of the Coho Festival...[rwin Park kindergarten class
watches parent Steve Saba release baby coho fry, raised by the class from

cegs, into West Van’s Roberts Creek.

George Hees, a trip to England
with a B.C. House reception, a
Loveboat cruise and a new Hyun-
dai Pony—to mention only a few.
But the most valued gift of all was
a plaque recording his prowess as
an outdoorsman which the B.C.
government will implant in
Garibaldi Park.

{t was B.C.'s “thank you’’ to a
very special Canadian—an excep-
lionally talented man whose entire
Career put service to youth and the
community far ahead of monctary
considerations. Jack belongs to
quite a rare breed.

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BORN IN 1979 as a kind of fate
sumer public picnic party, next
week’s 8th annual Coho Festival
—z. five-day welcome to the salm-
or returning to North Shore rivers
gad streams—has grown to be the
North Shore’s biggest community
event,

Wednesday through Saturday
Park Royal malls feature salmon-
relauied exhibits with hands-on
displays end contests for the kids
and an arts competition juried by
noted Canadian artists. An c«-
citing addition Saturaay, sept. 12,
is the gala evening party in Park
Royal North—with buffet, bubbly,
music, entertainment, door prizes
and a J-in-300 chance to win a
tuxury Hawaiian holiday for two
(call the Festival office, 922-3971,
pronto for remaining tickets).

Centred on Ambleside Park, the
fun-filled climax Sunday, Sept. 13,
includes a pancake breakfast; the
nine-mile Coho Run to Kitsilano:
the popular two-hour-plus Coho
Walk down from Cleveland Dam
(they bus you up there); the all-day
salmon barbecue; refreshments,
kite flying contests, guided fishing
charters, puppet shows, clowns
and other entertainment galore.

All funds caised) during the
event—sponsored by West Van
Chamber of Commerce and the
Coho Festival Society—go to the
salmonid enhancement programs
conducted in North Shore schools
to ensure that the yearly harvest of

HELMUT HOEBIG, 1920-1987,
“Se sea keeps on returning. Public
relations-wise, the salmon never
had it so good!

SAD LOSS to the Norih Shore
cultural scene was the death Wed-
nesday (Sept. 2) of well-known
musician and string instruments
teacher Helmut Hoebig, 67. Arriv-
ing in Vancouver from Germany in
1953, he was active for years in the
city’s musical life—as conductor
for the B.C. Opera Ass'n (now
VOA), conducting Viennese Pops
Concerts and VSO members, and
featuring such leading singers as
Milla Andrew and Karl Norman.
More recent involvements included
the North Shore Light Opera, the
North Shore Music Festival, the
Kiwanis Music Festival and the
Canadian Music Competitions.
With wife Patricia, his Haebig
Music Studio on Capilano Road
has nurtured many talented young
North Shore musicians, including
his own family—daughter Gwen is
now concert master of the Win-
nipeg Symphony and son Desmond

principal cellist of the Cincinnati
Symphony.

SCRATCHPAD: Typo gremlins
got to our Wednesday item on
low-cost housing for West Van
seniors. Council wants over 130
units by 1990—NOT just ‘‘over
30”... Hundredth birthdays bring
you a big party, but the even more
impressive birthdays that follow go
largely unnoticed. So a_ belated
“many happy returns’’ to
Evergreen House resident Gertrude
Tett who turned 102 Aug. 31
Happy anniversary today (Sept. 6)
to North Van’s Pat and Barbara
Widdifield And more of the
same tomorrow (Sept. 7) to West
Van's Chris and Helena Christie,
celebrating their 52nd.

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WRIGHT JOR WRONG: Of
course they go awry. What else do
you exrect of any plan that’s been
made between mice and men?

GERTRUDE TETT...102 rates