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Local recreation departments host B.C.-wide convention

FOURTEEN MONTHS’ planning and organizing by 20 members of the North Vancouver Recreation Commission and the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department will conie to fruition May 11 to 13 when the provincial Rec- reation and Parks Conference rolls into the Whistler Con-

vention Centre.

The conference is sponsored by the B.C. Recreation and Parks Association. The conference pro- gram is made up of 36 educational sessions, ranging from Managing the Future, Teen and Youth Workshops and Recreation Ser- vices for Seniors.

The keynote address will be delivered by Sharon Wood, the first North American woman to climb Mount Everest. Wood will focus on the exploration of human potential, turning a dream into re- ality, and the process of setting goals and following through to at- tain them.

Conference organizers are ex- pecting to draw about 500 delegaies from across the province to the event.

The annual conference is usually organized by the parks and recre- ation staff working in the hosting community. But said conference chairman and assistant director of West Vancouver’s Parks and Rec- reation Bob Kusch, ‘‘There is no parks and recreation staff in Whistler, so the North Shore join- ed forces to organize the event.”

Kusch has personally spent the

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“The association’s main objec- tive with this is to communicate with its members all that’s happen- ing in this field in the province. it’s the hub for the members,” he said.

Many of the planning issues West Vancouver is presently wrestling with are common to other changing communities.

Said Kusch: ‘In West Van- couver, the leisure issues include dealing with the aging population, the declining children’s popula- tion, the issue of aging recreational facilities and the issue of the grow- ing costs to maintain the expansive parkland we have in the communi- ty. Per capita, we’ve probably got more parkland than most com- munities in Canada.”

The B.C. Recreation and Parks Association, the sponsor of the event, was formed in 1954 as a non-profit organization and public interest group to enhance leisure services.

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BOB KUSCH of the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department (left) and Bruce Ray of the North Vancouver Recreation Commission are prepared for the arrival at Whistler of 560 recreation delegates from across the province. Tike two North Shore recreation departments organized the conference.

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