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The first-ever Vancouver
Sportsmen’s Show, featuring
displays and live demon-
strations of interest to
outdoorsmen from all walks

of life, will take place
February !3 to 17 at

Exhibition Park.

An expansion upon the
highly successful ‘Camping
,on Wheels’ Show of previous
years, the Vancouver
Sportsmen's Show will be
held at the Rollerland,
Showmart, Food and North
Forum buildings.

Pete Rose, first baseman
for the Philadelphia Phillies
of baseball’s National
League will be guest of
honor at the show.

The Pepsi Cola Skicade
program to teach students
how to ski has entered its
second year this year.

Skicade will introduce
both alphine and _ cross-
country skiing to over 14,000
non-skiing students in B.C.

SPORTS MAILBAG

Pat

Rich should be
ashamed to have accepted a
free weekend at Big White to

pretend to be a= sports
reporter after his biased
negative article, “The

Seduction of Big White.”

The last paragraph in his
article states, “and despite
the fact that I don't downhill
ski.” This statement sums up
my feelings as to why your
coverage of ‘the biggest ski
racing event to come to this
province should have been
covered by someone both
knowledgeable and _ in-
terested in ski racing.

Virtually all of the pro
racers at Big White have
represented their countries
on the amature World Cup
circuit. So uf you follow ski
racing at all the pro’s are not
“no names” as Rich would
have us belive.

Rich states that Pro
Racing is never going to
make it as a sport-entertain-
ment event. But, he should
have asked the racers about

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Another attraction will be
The Mercey Brothers,
Canada's top country singing
group, who will entertain

nightly during the five-day
show.

More than 100 companies
representing many hundreds
of lines and products have
taken space in the show
which is expected to attract
in excess of 25,000 visitors.

Products being exhibited
include small boats, canoes
and marine accessories,
outboard motors, four-wheel
drives, water and snow ski

equipment and fishing
tackle.

This winter, a mobile van
complete with both alpine
and cross-country © equip-

ment will visit two schools:

daily, providing an oral in-
class presentation and an

outdoor or gym experience
lesson.

Each student willl be given
the basic introduction in

ut ‘negative’ Big

the crowds of 3,000 -to 5,000
at Pro Skiing events in the
States and this year in
Europe.

He feels the interviews are
a waste of time as you can
predict what the racers are
going to say. This statement
is ‘a direct reflection on the

interviewers ability to ask
intelligent, thoughtful
questions or = stupid,

repetitive questions that the
racers hear from four out of
five interviewers.

There were a lot of good
things that happened last
weekend. The weather. the
excellent course and site
prepared by Big White. the
excitement put on by the
racers (which Rich felt was
boring as they finished the
races sometimes as close as a

hundredth of a second
together) and the free in-
strucuon put on by the

racers and Nancy Green for
young skiers. Or did Rich
miss this instrucuon when he
was inside the lodge keeping
warm and drinking his free
Labatts beer”

PARKS & FIELD
ALLOCATIONS

SPRING & SUMMER 1980

until Pb acday

allocated a field for use during the Spang and Summer of

1980

75% ot the player Compiement on the team must be

North Vancouver residents Applcations should be sent to Mr

Howie Carty Parks and Field Abo cator
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returned by February 15th

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In addition, there will
displays of trailers, campers,
motorcycles, motorhomes,
vans, fishing tackle, exercise
equipment and games,
canopies and clothing.

Lodges, resorts and tourist
associations will be
disseminating information to
show visitors as will the
Ministries of Environment,
Parks and Fisheries.

There will be a casting
pool, a cross-country ski
demonstration, a display of
“several breeds of dogs, a
camp cooking area and
canoe and kayak demon-
Strations.

Skicade in second year

either form of skiing, with
the use of plastic snow.

A number of companies
are sponsoring the program
which is offered free of
charge to schools’ with
Grades 7 to 10 throughout
the province.

There was one correct
statement contained in the
article.

“And everybody, the
skiers, promoters, media
and especially Big White,
loved it.”

Bob Salo
N. Vancouver

Editor’s note: While every
letter writer is entitled to his
opinion, it should be pointed
out that News reporter Pat
Rich paid his own way.

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Hours for the show are 6

-m. to 10:30 p.m. on

ednesday and Thursday, |
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday
and Saturday and | p.m. to 6
p.m. on Sunday.

Admission is $2.50 for
adults and $1.50 for juniors
(five to 15) as well as senior
citizens.

The Vancouver Sport-
smen’s Show is one of three
shows produced annually by
Canadian National Sport-
smen’s Shows (CNSS) in
Vancouver and one of 14
across Canada.

The other two Vancouver
shows are Dockside -- The

Wheelchair

Basketball with an_in-
ternational flavor along with
a unique twist will be on
display at Handsworth
School Saturday and Sun-
day.

The ‘Cablecars’, a
wheelchair basketball team
from Vancouver will be
taking on Spokane in a two
game tournament.

Vancouver
Show —

tember at the Bayshore Inn
Marina and the Vancouver

Floating boat
held each Sep-

International Boat Show
which immediately precedes
the Sportsmen’s Show at
Exhibition Park.

CNSS is a l
chartered non-profit
organization and the
proceeds from all 14 shows
across Canada are devoted
to. conservation research,
projects and outdoors
education through the
Canadian National Sport-
smen’s Fund.

federally

To date, the organization
has raised more than §$8-

basketball

Playing with other
physically - handicapped
teams in the Pacific North
West, the teams are vying
for the Gold Cup, em-
blamatic of the basketball
championship.

The ‘Cablecars’ are part of
the B.C. Wheelchair
organization.

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million for the support of
conservation © work,
distributed in the form of
grants to groups and in-
dividuals engaged in con-
servation research projects
and education.

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Game time on February 9
is 8 p.m. with the Sunday
game going at 10:30 a.m.

A team from Edmonton
will be in town February 23
& 24.

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