ssing javel

Bob Mackin
News Reperter

MAE Turck is joyous
about her javelin.

She resumed training a few
weeks ayo after her javelin was
found, thanks to a News read-
cr.

* "Phe Vancouver masters ath-
tere lost her $300 Swedish-
made javelin alter an evening
practice at Carisbrooke Park in

arth Vancouver Sept. 21. Iz
we found the’ next day by
Capilano Highway Services
worker Rob Grange.

Turek set it on the sear
bumper of hee truck, bur
neglected to foad it in the back
with her bicycle before heading
home.

Grange spotted the light-
weight, white implement on
the — casthound = Lonsdale
omramp to the Upper Levels

Highway daring a work assign-
ment. “f just looked over and it
Was sitting on the concrete tip
of the iand between the high-
way and) onramp,” says
Grange.

Grange took it home to
Maple Ridge and tried throw-
ing it at a park with his son.

A co-worker, who was dri-
ving the truck the day the
javelin was picked up, read a
News story on Oct. 3 about
Turek. He showed it to Grange
ar work the next day and
Grange called Turek to arrange
for the reunion.

“f ended up talking to her
on the phone for 20 minutes,”
Grange says. “She's quite a
spark plug.”

Turek — who set Canadian
masters records in discus, shot
put and javelin in 1994 — gave
Grange a jar of apple sauce and
a teddy bear for his four-vear-
old son as a token of her appre-

ciation, She posted handbills
around North Vancouver and
placed classified newspaper ads,
but she’s crediting a story in
the News’ sports section for
leading to the happy ending.

“She definitely is happy,
there’s no doubt about that,”
Grange says.

The javelin is not the weird-
est item Grange has found at
work. He found a boomerang
on Highway 99 near Lions Bay,
a dead body on First Avenue in
North Vancouver and a blind
man wandering around the
Taylor Way ramp to the Upper
Levels Highway. Cell phones,
pagers, wallets and purses sre
items commonly found on the
highways, he says.

As for Turck, she’s training
for her goal: a medal at the
world championships for mas-
ters athletes. “Most people as
they get older slow down,” she
says. “I'm going up.”

New fast ferry gets old name

THE name Discovery
was painted on the hull
of BC Ferries’ second.
 PacifiCat fast ferry
Wednesday.

The. PacifiCat Discovery
receives its colours just two
months shy of the 210th
anniversary of the naming of
George Vancouver's Discovery,
one of the first European ves-
sels to chart the inner waters of
Burrard Inlet. : .

“It’s ‘quite ‘an honour to ;
celebrate the naming of a new. *

ship,” said, said Bob
Lingwood, ‘president and
CEO. : .

“The original Discovery was
the sixth ship in the Royal Navy
to bear the name, and BC
Ferries is prond to dedicate our
newest vessel to such an impor-
tant part of our heritage.”

- The: Discovery was officially
launched on May 25 and is
scheduled for commissioning
carly next month.

The first of BC Ferrics’ alu-

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