14 ~ Friday, March 7, 1986 - North Shore News

Lifestyles and T.V. ___

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A LOCAL gymnast practices at the North Vancouver Flicka Gymnastics
Club, The club, which has a membership of 750, will be staging a mara-
thon March 9 to raise funds towards its operating budget.

Flicka flips

NORTH Vancouver's Flicka
Gymnastics Club will be staging a
gymathon March 9 as part of its
annual campaign to raise much-
needed operating funds.

Flicka, which currently bas an
enrolment of some 750 in four
gymnastic divisions, is one of the
few gymnastic clubs in the Lower
Mainland not funded by municipal
governments.

According to club president
Tom McKenzie, Flicka has an an-
nual operating budget deficit of
between $15,000 and $20,000.

The club hopes to raise $7,000
towards offsetting that deficit with
what will be its fifth annual
gymathon, McKenzie said. .

Because Flicka offers top-level
instruction in its competitive pro-
gram, its overhead costs are higher
than those of less intensive clubs.
That program, which currently in-
volves 45 gymnasts, has become

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one of B.C.’s most successful and
has established Flicka as one of
Canada’s top competitive clubs.

“The higher a gymnast goes in
competition, the mare complicated
and more expensive his or her
training becomes,’? McKenzie said.

Over the past year, Flicka has
added approximately 250 aspiring
gymnasts to its ranks.

The club, which has been on the
North Shore for the past 12 years,
currently has 16 instructors, three
full-time coaches, and one profes-
sional administrator.

In Sunday’s gymathon at the
club’s North Vancouver Recre-
ation Centre iocation, each of
Flicka’s 750 gymnasts will perform
repetitions of their chosen exercises
for pledges of between $.01 and
$2,

For those interested in making
pledges call the Flicka club at
985-7918.

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