Fall clinics : set up A Ringette school will be held -on fout™ consecutive © Saturdays in. September, | starting September 8, at at the Karen. 10:45 a:m. Magnussen Arena in North ' Vancouver. “The ‘school is intended | to dramatically: . improve skating ability of beginners, improve the confidence and proficiency of the ex- perienced player, and make even ‘an all-star player’. stronger. ; Cost is $1 0, ‘and registration will be Thur- sday, September 6, at 7:30 ‘p-m. at the Karen Magnussen Arena, with. soni tration at the endofSeptember. - The North’ Vancouver Ringette -Association was held recently, with a complete new slate of of- ficers elected. Peter Griffin was elected aS president, with Dave Radbourne serving . as vice- president. _Lila Griffith is now secretary, and Kate Lister is treasurer. George _Drew willbe 7” Stewart . Tegistration equipment manager will be “Jerry Smandych. Gord and Georgina Scott will be in charge of fund raising, with Luanne Griffin, Myrna. Howard, and Loulse. dealing. with . publicity: . Eber Behrenz will be acting as- statistician, . coaches coordinator is Craig . Stewart, referee-in-chief is: Bruce McPhee, and Peter Griffin will be serving as all- ° star coordinator. Ringette’ Ss first season in North Van was. described as a. very successful one, ‘especially as the Petite All- Stars won the. B.C. cham- -pionship. One of the Highlights of the year was the Belles All Star team (ages 14-17) winning a challenge game against the boys’ midget hockey team, 8-2, and their coach’s admission that; ‘it wasn’t the rules, it was the © skating’ that did his boys in. ‘Because of the enthusiasm generated for the sport among the girls, aged 8 to 16, the association expects to triple in September w when the ringette RINGETTE IS A. FUN game for girls and more and more are taking up the sport on the North Shore and 1 throughout _ the Lower Mafiland. A clinic for the sport will be held fm September. & pat Wine, “LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (UPI) - Organizers of the: 1980 Winter Olympics have opened the floodgates for ticket applications, but fewer than half of the ducats will go directly to the general American public. Organizers said Monday that more than 85 percent of the ‘tickets for the pames - 470,000 - are reserved for Americans, however, 50,000 are held for residents of the seven towns around Lake Placid, site of the games, and another 200,000 will be sold to tour operators. Those operators can be any group or business that More than 200 remarkable athletes from Canada’s 10 Provinces and the Northwest Territories will converge on | UBC and Richmond August 19-25 for the Eleventh annual Natiuonal Wheelchair Games. Athletes will compete in 14 sports, and those who reach qualifying standards will be considered for the Canadian team that will _ compete at the Olympics for the Disabled in Holland, June 21 - July 5, 1980. The sports are: volicyball, table tennis, archery, bowling, snooker, murder ball (a form of rugby, only rougher), pentathion, swimming, rifle shooting, fencing, track and ficld, archery, slalom == and weightlifting. heelc : develops Olympic packages, a. spokesman said. Ap- plications are. still being accepted, with about 100 on hand so far. 1- Foreign visitors have been alloted 78,500 tickets, in- cluding 32,900 for Canada. About. 200 LPOOC staff members also will get preference for ticket pur- chases. The Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee said ticket prices range from $10 to $60 per event, including, transportation from special The National Wheelchair Games will officially open at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 19, at UBC’s War Memorial Gymnasium and close at 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, August 25. Overall, 337 events will be contested in the 14 over the seven days o Games. the UBC facilities will be used for the majority of events. Those events to be held in Richmond are track and field (Minoru Park), and rifle shooting (Richmond Rod and Gun). “Dennis Cherenko, executive director of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association (B.C. Division), says he expects scveral 1ir games:se parking areas to the sites of the competition. — Domestic tickets are also being allotted regionally, with 35 ent, aimed at distribution in the Northeast, and other area's allotments decreasing as their distances from Lake Placid increase. Ticket formulas can be changed after sales are reviewed, a spokesman said. He said that with daily ticket sales limited to 51,700, che games are expected to draw a maximum of 40,000 fans to the 2 .700-person village on peak competition days. World and a Canadian records during the Games. host of to fall “Everything points that way,” said Cherenko. “At the Ontario Games last weckend, two world records and 11 national marks were broken and another tied. The gams open Feb. 13 and run through Feb. 24, although = scheduling problems forced officials to slate a few hockey games for Feb. 12, the day before the opening ceremonies. Tickets for outdoor events will cost between $15 and | $40, with the most expensive ones for ski jumping. The less expensive tickets and those between $40 and $60 will be for indoor events, a spokesman said. Tour packages must in- clude only two events on the same uay and cannot be for That means certainly,, the athictes, from Ontario are ready for the nationals. And I know the B.C. competitors are set.” Records, incidentally, are only recognized if broken during the national com- petition. 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Globe Ticket Co. of Philadelphia will handle the confirmations after the Bank of Lake Placid. reports checks or charge card orders have been processed. Tickets should be mailed. in late December or January, the spokesman said. The LPOOC’s address for ticket inquiries is Box 1980, Lake Placid, N.Y. 12946. PARKS AND FIELD ALLOCATIONS FALL & WINTER - September Ist, 1979 - April 15th, 1880. Applications ore now being occepted for use of fields in the * City and District of North Vancouver for soccer, football, field hockey for the fall and winter season, (Those who have already sent in their survey forms which included their onticipat ed needs, for 1979 do not have to re-apply). Due to the shortage of fields available at least 75% of t ployers on the team must be North Vancouver residents. lications in writing giving your choice (1st, 2nd & 3rd) of s, days, times, dates and percentage of North Van- couver residents on team should be sent to: Porks & Field Allocator, c/o North Vancouver Recreation Commission, 123 £. 23rd Street, North Voncouver, B.C. V7L 3E2 by Au 15th, 1979. Individual teams in leagues should moke their requirements known through their league executives.