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Morgan News:2010 |Administration, IOC, OCOG| IOC, Vancouver Olympic organizers start sorting out communication roles
The International Olympic Committee will not be setting up a communications office in Vancouver, preferring instead to let the Vancouver Organizing Committee (V-OCOG) of the Olympic Games handle the necessary public relations functions.
If the IOC set up a Vancouver office, it feels it would have to do it at all of the current cities involved in hosting games in various stages, and would probably also have to do it for each city involved in bidding for future games. Instead, it prefers to centralize IOC public relations and communications at IOC headquarters in Switzerland and deal with the international time differences with lengthy staffing hours.
According to the Olympic Charter, there is only one spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee, Giselle Davis, but for the week of November 16, it will be Communications Manager Mark Dolley, who has been on job in this relatively new IOC position for only a month, as Davis will be on vacation during that time.
The current communications department for the V-OCOG are three people who worked with the Bid Corporation and who are on temporary contract until the administration of the Organizing Committee can be set up, which won’t occur until after the new Chief Executive Officer is appointed in January. The three are: Jane Burnes, who was the Executive Director, Government Relations for the Bid Corporation; Sam Corea, Director of Media Relations and; Stephanie Herdman, a communications assistant.
The Vancouver communications group, which works out of the offices of the former Bid Corporation at 375 Water Street in Vancouver, is able to handle, as best it can, the news media load but isn't able to give much priority, except in a few situations, to the demand for Olympic-related speakers at organizations and events or for paying little more than lip service to keeping the organization's website current.
Contrast that with the current size of the Athens communications department for the 2004 games, which has 80 personnel on the payroll and 30 of them deal with international news media, plus another 20 in various specialty positions on contract or part-time. Some are so specialized they are only dealing with media from specific geographic regions, such as the southern part of Germany.
The Vancouver communications office is expected to expand a little by the end of 2004, but the timing and the extent will in part depend on the influence of the IOC's co-ordination committee, which is expected to have its first meeting with the V-OCOG in the last week of next March or the first week of April. If the co-ordination group feels that better public relations or communications is needed it will raised the matter at the spring meeting.
The IOC is also in the process of improving its ability to do what it calls "knowledge transfer" from the IOC to Paralympic organizations, including that for Vancouver 2010, as it acknowledges that it needs to do more with the partnership organization. It's part of the blue-sky thinking that's currently underway within the IOC communications department. Part of that blue-sky thinking these days is figuring out how to deal with the nine-hour time difference between Vancouver and Switzerland, where IOC's headquarters are located, so that west coast media, and North American media in other time zones, can get real-time access to communications staff for logistical support and to IOC staff for comments.
It's also considering development of a section of the IOC website to help improve support for news media access to IOC experts. Software tools are also now under development that within a few months will allow IOC public relations staff to transmit a news release from, say, Vancouver, to the IOC's full list of media e-mail and faxes without tapping staff in Switzerland to do the job. The time difference affects media deadlines because the IOC staff have often left work for the evening when it’s before noon on Canada’s west coast.
The IOC communications department is also working at providing more PR support for media. The IOC, for instance, distributed what are called "B-Rolls" to TV news staff for the first time in Vancouver during a joint news conference with the IOC and the V-OCOG. A "B-Roll" is fill-in video tape of various images of Olympic situations designed to help TV stations do voice-overs and longer reports on Olympic events when they don’t have enough video they have shot themselves. At the same time, IOC communications staff were unhappy with the locale of the first news conference room they chose in Vancouver, citing issues with sufficient lighting for TV camera crews and large pillars in the room that interfered with sight lines.
The IOC communications department is also in the process of compiling a forward-looking schedule of major announcement dates it will publish to reduce the possibility that one of the several OCOGs in existence at any point would make a major announcement on the same day as the IOC. That's because some of the more than 10,000 news media on the IOC's contact list cover the IOC exclusively and run into logistics problems when there are major announcements that overlap, and many news organizations are reluctant to devote time to two Olympic stories, so the stories end up competing with each other for space or air time.
In addition, Vancouver 2010 news media will also be receiving — along with news media on the IOC's press distribution lists in the rest of the world — a questionnaire about how the news release distribution could be developed for more efficient use. Currently the IOC distributes every news release to every news media, even though the information may not be of interest to them all. The questionnaire will even ask questions as to whether the news media want the e-mail version in text or HTML format, since the difference can affect spam filters. The questionnaire will be distributed before the end of 2003. Anybody can get onto the IOC’s news and newsletter distribution list by filling out the form at:
The IOC, which has had a communications style guide for some years, has finally decided to publish it. It's now available from the IOC communications department.
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Article Number: 66 * Published on 10/22/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Economist focuses on construction, hospitality industry as winners in 2010 bid
Mary Webb, a senior economist with Scotiabank, expects that construction will be the major beneficiary of Vancouver winning the 2010 Winter Olypmic bid, which she also says will be good for small business because of the wide number of needs of the Games.
And, she notes in a business letter, about 65% of the construction sector's employees are in small businesses. The hospitality industry — hotels, restaurants, motels — will be a big winner as well, along with a strong demand for business services from small firms such as architects, engineers and planners.
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Article Number: 90 * Published on 10/19/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Chase picks resort road upgrade as 2010 project
The village of Chase in British Columbia's central Interior has chosen an all-season road to the ski resort of Sun Peaks as the village's proposed 2010 Olympic project.
The provincial government has offered funds for certain infrastructure projects as part of its benefits program for the Olympics. Applications for the fund are coming from all across the province.
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Article Number: 81 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Vancouver Island winter resort hires Olypmic experts to upgrade property
The Mount Washington Alpine Resort, on Vancouver Island near Comox, has hired Georgia Manhard, a director of Cross Country British Columbia, and Don Gardner, a cross-country trail designer from Calgary to upgrade the Resort's skiing trails as part of a process to entice Olympic athlete training.
Both Manhard and Gardner worked with the 2010 Winter Olympic Bid organization on the Callaghan Valley Nordic venue. Gardner, a member of the Canafdian Nordic Team in the 1960s, worked on the design for the Canmore trail system during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. The resort plans to increase its 55 kilometres of Nordic trails to more than 100 during the next few years as part of its effort to position itself as an Olympics athlete training facility.
The Resort also has plans to add a training centre, a stadium oval, a building to provide hostel-style accommodations for visiting athletes, a fitness room, additional meeting rooms, and support areas.
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Article Number: 83 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| White Rock area Chamber of Commerce sets eye on 2010 Olylmpics
The White Rock-South Surrey Chamber of Commerce has elected Bob MacKeracher as its new president for 2003-2004, and he says his priority is to set up a task force to find ways the area can take advantage of the 2010 Olympics.
He feels the area needs to market itself more effectively, particularly for tourism, with the 2010 games as the strong draw. He says the provincial government wants community involvement in the games, and that the Chamber needs to set up a 2010 Task Force as soon as possible.
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Article Number: 85 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Cowichan Valley 2010 committees still waiting for Olympic nod
Four 2010 Olympic Committees set up in June to be ready to pounce on opportunities for the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island are still biding their time, waiting for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee to get established and set up.
The Valley’s four committees are being headed by volunteers Liz Hoole for Lake Cowichan, Denise McKinlay in Duncan, Betty James in North Cowichan)and Sharon Bricker in Ladysmith. The board of the V-OCOG took longer to appoint than they expected, but they will be among the first in line looking for what they term "the blessing" of the Organizing Committee for various plans in the Valley.
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Article Number: 87 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Vernon ski festival to enhance reputation for 2010 training
Cross Country Canada has selected the Soverign Lake Nordic Centre in Vernon to be one of the two Canadian sites for the Canadian World Cup Nordic Ski Festival at the end of 2005, and the Club says the decision to host some of the best skiers in the world should help Vernon in the run-up to the 2010 Olympics.
Rob Bernhardt, a Club executive, says it will focus the ski world on Vernon and its facilities as 155 athletes arrive in December of that year for the Festival, and that means its more likely that international teams will consider Vernon for training for 2010. It's the second time Soverign Lake has hosted the World Cup; it last did so in 1991. Nordic skier Becky Scott, one of the organizers of the bid for the 2005 festival, says there is a competitive advantage to competing on "home snow,” which was reinforced by performances in the 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics, where she was a medalist.
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Article Number: 88 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| BC Premier pumps tourism, trade and 2010 with Puget Sound officials
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell , about to start a trade tour of several U.S. states, told a Puget Sound region meeting in Vancouver that there are some necessary goals to be met to ensure tourism the 2010 Winter Olympic Games benefits Washington State.
He said there was an opportunity for cooperation between the two regions to take advantage of the tourism and other benefits that are forecast to come from the Olympic Games, and that the border crossing is important. British Columbia is working closely with Washington state to help make the border as "porous" as possible while keeping it secure.
He also said the Olympics offered opportunities to businesses on both sides of the border. The list of things needed is extensive, Campbell said, ticking off the need for 12,000 trash cans, 50,000 phones, 46,000 folding chairs and 7,500 hockey pucks.
"We'll leave the hockey pucks to you," replied Steve Leahy, president of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, which was a sponsor of the conference, "but I've made a note about the trash cans."
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Article Number: 89 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Revelstoke committee formed to organize Olympic involvement
Thom Tischik of the Chamber of Commerce in Revelstoke, British Columbia, says a local Olympic Opportunities Committee has been established in the Kootenay community.
So far, it's had two meetings and have heard from two individuals involved in previous Olympic planning and winter sport activity.
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Article Number: 72 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Comox and Campbell River hoping to help 2010 athletes with ice training
Comox Councillor Dennis Strand and Campbell River regional director Bill Matthews have discussed a joint application by the Comox Valley Sports Commission and Campbell River's Strathcona Gardens Commission for a share of the $40 million promised by the province for locations where international teams could train for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Comox Valley Sports Centre manager Ray Boogaards feels the province might pay to add 15 feet to the width of ice in the communities' Sports Centre rinks to meet the international standards. Their ice, which currently meets North American standards, is 60 metres (200 feet) long by 26 metres (85 feet) wide.
Facilities at the aquatic centre could be upgraded as well.
The valley, north of Nanaimo and across the straight from Whistler and Squamish has a variety of training facilities, a varied climate and the skiing facilities at Mount Washington, which is submitting a separate application, is the same altitude as Whistler.
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Article Number: 73 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Winter Games organizers hope attendees will include 2010 reps
The 30th annual Northern BC Winter Games is slated for Kitimat from February 5 to 8, and organizers are hoping that representatives of the 2010 Winter Olympics will be attending, just as they did from the Bid Corporation last year.
The name of the games is aimed more at when they're held than the type of sports played. Besides curling, figure skating, hockey and cross-country skiing, which are the focus of the 2010 Olympics, the Northern Winter Games also include badminton, regular and wheelchair basketball, bowling, bridge, carpet bowling, karate, swimming, tae kwon do, volleyball, wrestling, chess, judo, gymnastics.
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Article Number: 75 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Whistler ski organizers think Olypmic bid may hike ski interest by newbies, experts
Organizers for the 34-year-old Whistler Mountain Ski Club hope that Whistler's bid to help host the 2010 Winter Olympics will increase interest and registration in skiing this season, starting with better registration for it's annual Rookie Camp, which is on Novemeber 29 and 30th this year.
The Rookie Camp is free, and is aimed at interesting young skiers in the Club's facilities. The Club trains skiers to provincial and national standards under a paid coaching system.
Meanwhile, Cross Country B.C. is paying for the services of head coach Danielle Murdoch for the Whistler Nordics as part of the Olympic Legacies Now program, which allows the organization's 135 members to compete at a number of provincial competitions this season.
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Article Number: 79 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Administration, IOC, OCOG| IOC, Vancouver Olympic organizers start sorting out communication roles
The International Olympic Committee will not be setting up a communications office in Vancouver, preferring instead to let the Vancouver Organizing Committee (V-OCOG) of the Olympic Games handle the necessary public relations functions.
If the IOC set up a Vancouver office, it feels it would have to do it at all of the current cities involved in hosting games in various stages, and would probably also have to do it for each city involved in bidding for future games. Instead, it prefers to centralize IOC public relations and communications at IOC headquarters in Switzerland and deal with the international time differences with lengthy staffing hours.
According to the Olympic Charter, there is only one spokesperson for the International Olympic Committee, Giselle Davis, but for the week of November 16, it will be Communications Manager Mark Dolley, who has been on job in this relatively new IOC position for only a month, as Davis will be on vacation during that time.
The current communications department for the V-OCOG are three people who worked with the Bid Corporation and who are on temporary contract until the administration of the Organizing Committee can be set up, which won’t occur until after the new Chief Executive Officer is appointed in January. The three are: Jane Burnes, who was the Executive Director, Government Relations for the Bid Corporation; Sam Corea, Director of Media Relations and; Stephanie Herdman, a communications assistant.
The Vancouver communications group, which works out of the offices of the former Bid Corporation at 375 Water Street in Vancouver, is able to handle, as best it can, the news media load but isn't able to give much priority, except in a few situations, to the demand for Olympic-related speakers at organizations and events or for paying little more than lip service to keeping the organization's website current.
Contrast that with the current size of the Athens communications department for the 2004 games, which has 80 personnel on the payroll and 30 of them deal with international news media, plus another 20 in various specialty positions on contract or part-time. Some are so specialized they are only dealing with media from specific geographic regions, such as the southern part of Germany.
The Vancouver communications office is expected to expand a little by the end of 2004, but the timing and the extent will in part depend on the influence of the IOC's co-ordination committee, which is expected to have its first meeting with the V-OCOG in the last week of next March or the first week of April. If the co-ordination group feels that better public relations or communications is needed it will raised the matter at the spring meeting.
The IOC is also in the process of improving its ability to do what it calls "knowledge transfer" from the IOC to Paralympic organizations, including that for Vancouver 2010, as it acknowledges that it needs to do more with the partnership organization. It's part of the blue-sky thinking that's currently underway within the IOC communications department. Part of that blue-sky thinking these days is figuring out how to deal with the nine-hour time difference between Vancouver and Switzerland, where IOC's headquarters are located, so that west coast media, and North American media in other time zones, can get real-time access to communications staff for logistical support and to IOC staff for comments.
It's also considering development of a section of the IOC website to help improve support for news media access to IOC experts. Software tools are also now under development that within a few months will allow IOC public relations staff to transmit a news release from, say, Vancouver, to the IOC's full list of media e-mail and faxes without tapping staff in Switzerland to do the job. The time difference affects media deadlines because the IOC staff have often left work for the evening when it’s before noon on Canada’s west coast.
The IOC communications department is also working at providing more PR support for media. The IOC, for instance, distributed what are called "B-Rolls" to TV news staff for the first time in Vancouver during a joint news conference with the IOC and the V-OCOG. A "B-Roll" is fill-in video tape of various images of Olympic situations designed to help TV stations do voice-overs and longer reports on Olympic events when they don’t have enough video they have shot themselves. At the same time, IOC communications staff were unhappy with the locale of the first news conference room they chose in Vancouver, citing issues with sufficient lighting for TV camera crews and large pillars in the room that interfered with sight lines.
The IOC communications department is also in the process of compiling a forward-looking schedule of major announcement dates it will publish to reduce the possibility that one of the several OCOGs in existence at any point would make a major announcement on the same day as the IOC. That's because some of the more than 10,000 news media on the IOC's contact list cover the IOC exclusively and run into logistics problems when there are major announcements that overlap, and many news organizations are reluctant to devote time to two Olympic stories, so the stories end up competing with each other for space or air time.
In addition, Vancouver 2010 news media will also be receiving — along with news media on the IOC's press distribution lists in the rest of the world — a questionnaire about how the news release distribution could be developed for more efficient use. Currently the IOC distributes every news release to every news media, even though the information may not be of interest to them all. The questionnaire will even ask questions as to whether the news media want the e-mail version in text or HTML format, since the difference can affect spam filters. The questionnaire will be distributed before the end of 2003. Anybody can get onto the IOC’s news and newsletter distribution list by filling out the form at:
The IOC, which has had a communications style guide for some years, has finally decided to publish it. It's now available from the IOC communications department.
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Article Number: 66 * Published on 10/22/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Economist focuses on construction, hospitality industry as winners in 2010 bid
Mary Webb, a senior economist with Scotiabank, expects that construction will be the major beneficiary of Vancouver winning the 2010 Winter Olypmic bid, which she also says will be good for small business because of the wide number of needs of the Games.
And, she notes in a business letter, about 65% of the construction sector's employees are in small businesses. The hospitality industry — hotels, restaurants, motels — will be a big winner as well, along with a strong demand for business services from small firms such as architects, engineers and planners.
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Article Number: 90 * Published on 10/19/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Chase picks resort road upgrade as 2010 project
The village of Chase in British Columbia's central Interior has chosen an all-season road to the ski resort of Sun Peaks as the village's proposed 2010 Olympic project.
The provincial government has offered funds for certain infrastructure projects as part of its benefits program for the Olympics. Applications for the fund are coming from all across the province.
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Article Number: 81 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Vancouver Island winter resort hires Olypmic experts to upgrade property
The Mount Washington Alpine Resort, on Vancouver Island near Comox, has hired Georgia Manhard, a director of Cross Country British Columbia, and Don Gardner, a cross-country trail designer from Calgary to upgrade the Resort's skiing trails as part of a process to entice Olympic athlete training.
Both Manhard and Gardner worked with the 2010 Winter Olympic Bid organization on the Callaghan Valley Nordic venue. Gardner, a member of the Canafdian Nordic Team in the 1960s, worked on the design for the Canmore trail system during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. The resort plans to increase its 55 kilometres of Nordic trails to more than 100 during the next few years as part of its effort to position itself as an Olympics athlete training facility.
The Resort also has plans to add a training centre, a stadium oval, a building to provide hostel-style accommodations for visiting athletes, a fitness room, additional meeting rooms, and support areas.
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Article Number: 83 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| White Rock area Chamber of Commerce sets eye on 2010 Olylmpics
The White Rock-South Surrey Chamber of Commerce has elected Bob MacKeracher as its new president for 2003-2004, and he says his priority is to set up a task force to find ways the area can take advantage of the 2010 Olympics.
He feels the area needs to market itself more effectively, particularly for tourism, with the 2010 games as the strong draw. He says the provincial government wants community involvement in the games, and that the Chamber needs to set up a 2010 Task Force as soon as possible.
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Article Number: 85 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Cowichan Valley 2010 committees still waiting for Olympic nod
Four 2010 Olympic Committees set up in June to be ready to pounce on opportunities for the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island are still biding their time, waiting for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee to get established and set up.
The Valley’s four committees are being headed by volunteers Liz Hoole for Lake Cowichan, Denise McKinlay in Duncan, Betty James in North Cowichan)and Sharon Bricker in Ladysmith. The board of the V-OCOG took longer to appoint than they expected, but they will be among the first in line looking for what they term "the blessing" of the Organizing Committee for various plans in the Valley.
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Article Number: 87 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Vernon ski festival to enhance reputation for 2010 training
Cross Country Canada has selected the Soverign Lake Nordic Centre in Vernon to be one of the two Canadian sites for the Canadian World Cup Nordic Ski Festival at the end of 2005, and the Club says the decision to host some of the best skiers in the world should help Vernon in the run-up to the 2010 Olympics.
Rob Bernhardt, a Club executive, says it will focus the ski world on Vernon and its facilities as 155 athletes arrive in December of that year for the Festival, and that means its more likely that international teams will consider Vernon for training for 2010. It's the second time Soverign Lake has hosted the World Cup; it last did so in 1991. Nordic skier Becky Scott, one of the organizers of the bid for the 2005 festival, says there is a competitive advantage to competing on "home snow,” which was reinforced by performances in the 2002 at the Salt Lake City Olympics, where she was a medalist.
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Article Number: 88 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| BC Premier pumps tourism, trade and 2010 with Puget Sound officials
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell , about to start a trade tour of several U.S. states, told a Puget Sound region meeting in Vancouver that there are some necessary goals to be met to ensure tourism the 2010 Winter Olympic Games benefits Washington State.
He said there was an opportunity for cooperation between the two regions to take advantage of the tourism and other benefits that are forecast to come from the Olympic Games, and that the border crossing is important. British Columbia is working closely with Washington state to help make the border as "porous" as possible while keeping it secure.
He also said the Olympics offered opportunities to businesses on both sides of the border. The list of things needed is extensive, Campbell said, ticking off the need for 12,000 trash cans, 50,000 phones, 46,000 folding chairs and 7,500 hockey pucks.
"We'll leave the hockey pucks to you," replied Steve Leahy, president of the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, which was a sponsor of the conference, "but I've made a note about the trash cans."
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Article Number: 89 * Published on 10/18/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Revelstoke committee formed to organize Olympic involvement
Thom Tischik of the Chamber of Commerce in Revelstoke, British Columbia, says a local Olympic Opportunities Committee has been established in the Kootenay community.
So far, it's had two meetings and have heard from two individuals involved in previous Olympic planning and winter sport activity.
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Article Number: 72 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Comox and Campbell River hoping to help 2010 athletes with ice training
Comox Councillor Dennis Strand and Campbell River regional director Bill Matthews have discussed a joint application by the Comox Valley Sports Commission and Campbell River's Strathcona Gardens Commission for a share of the $40 million promised by the province for locations where international teams could train for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Comox Valley Sports Centre manager Ray Boogaards feels the province might pay to add 15 feet to the width of ice in the communities' Sports Centre rinks to meet the international standards. Their ice, which currently meets North American standards, is 60 metres (200 feet) long by 26 metres (85 feet) wide.
Facilities at the aquatic centre could be upgraded as well.
The valley, north of Nanaimo and across the straight from Whistler and Squamish has a variety of training facilities, a varied climate and the skiing facilities at Mount Washington, which is submitting a separate application, is the same altitude as Whistler.
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Article Number: 73 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Winter Games organizers hope attendees will include 2010 reps
The 30th annual Northern BC Winter Games is slated for Kitimat from February 5 to 8, and organizers are hoping that representatives of the 2010 Winter Olympics will be attending, just as they did from the Bid Corporation last year.
The name of the games is aimed more at when they're held than the type of sports played. Besides curling, figure skating, hockey and cross-country skiing, which are the focus of the 2010 Olympics, the Northern Winter Games also include badminton, regular and wheelchair basketball, bowling, bridge, carpet bowling, karate, swimming, tae kwon do, volleyball, wrestling, chess, judo, gymnastics.
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Article Number: 75 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Whistler ski organizers think Olypmic bid may hike ski interest by newbies, experts
Organizers for the 34-year-old Whistler Mountain Ski Club hope that Whistler's bid to help host the 2010 Winter Olympics will increase interest and registration in skiing this season, starting with better registration for it's annual Rookie Camp, which is on Novemeber 29 and 30th this year.
The Rookie Camp is free, and is aimed at interesting young skiers in the Club's facilities. The Club trains skiers to provincial and national standards under a paid coaching system.
Meanwhile, Cross Country B.C. is paying for the services of head coach Danielle Murdoch for the Whistler Nordics as part of the Olympic Legacies Now program, which allows the organization's 135 members to compete at a number of provincial competitions this season.
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Article Number: 79 * Published on 10/17/2003
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