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Morgan News:2010 |Government| BC Government in hot water over act that could help Olympics open on time

The British Columbia government has run into strong reaction to legislation that could help ensure the facilities of the 2010 Winter Olympics is ready time.

The president of the Union of B.C. Municipalities claims Bill 75, the Significant Projects Streamlining Act could bypass the ability of municipalities to make land-use decisions. UBCM president and Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard because it can overrule local governments.

Bill 75 is designed to fast-track projects that are deemed significant by the provincial government. It received second reading Monday night, and was referred back to committee Wednesday for further discussion and input.

B.C. Minister of State for Deregulation Kevin Falcon, who is responsible for Bill 75, says that only "a handful of projects, maybe a few a year. Other opponents include the B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Construction Trades Council, the West Coast Environmental Law.

Opponents feel that the law is too broad, that if it has to do with the Olympics, it should be limited to Olympic projects.

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Article Number: 119 * Published on 11/7/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Campbell to investigate 2008 Olympics on trade mission

Premier Gordon Campbell will consult with officials hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing when he reaches that city as part of his trade mission tour of China and India this month. Those officials have been working for several years on the summer Olympics and may have some insights to offer because of their experience.

Campbell will visit several Chinese and Indian cities on the two-week trip.

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Article Number: 42 * Published on 11/3/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Spirit of Delta 2010 Committee looking for logo

The Olympic 2010 committee in the Vancouver suburb of Delta is looking for logo ideas. Spirit of Delta 2010 Committee. Until Dec. 17, the committee will consider logo designs to identify the committee.

The themes of the logo are to follow the themes of the committee: sport, arts and culture, business, community and the environment. The committee chair is Carlene Lewall.

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Article Number: 115 * Published on 10/31/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Squamish to court Japanese sister city for Olympic Games rehearsals

Squamish council representatives will be going overseas to help convince their counterparts in the sister city of Shimizu-cho in Japan to influence Japanese teams to practice in Squamish for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The town is located on the east coast of Japan near the base of Mt. Fuji, in a heavily-treed mountainous region with flowing rivers.

Council members will be working during their six-day visit on relationships with the Japanese Olympic Federation to offer the idea of using Squamish as a base for the Japanese Olympic Team.

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Article Number: 116 * Published on 10/31/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Five broadcasters ponder proposals for 2010 Olympic broadcasting rights

Five Canadian broadcasters are interested in bidding for the right to carry the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler.

Representatives of the five met with International Olympic Committee officials over the last two days of preliminary meetings. They included CBC, CTV, Rogers, CanWest and the French-language TVA, with the idea of talking over aspects before official bidding process gets underway.

The discussions included the number of Games each organization is interested in bidding on, and whether Internet rights should be should part of the broadcast package or if they should be separate. When to begin the bidding process was also on the table. IOC officials will decide later when official bidding will take place.

The CBC, the country's public broadcaster, holds the rights to broadcast games up to the 2008 Beijing Games and has been the official rights-holder for every Olympics since Atlanta in 1996. CTV, owned by Bell Globemedia, which also owns The Sports Network and the national Canadian newspaper Globe & Mail, last held the rights for the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway.

The bidding process will be similar to the procedure that was used to select the American 2010 and 2012 rights-holders in June. NBC paid US$2.201 billion. CBC paid US$160 million for the rights to the Games from 2000 in Sydney to 2008 in Beijing.

NBC, ABC and Fox made presentations to the IOC before submitting their financial bids in sealed envelopes. CBS dropped out before the final decision was made.

Television rights fees provide most of the IOC's revenue, with the U.S. share accounting for about 60%. Roughly half goes to host cities, with the rest split among the IOC, international federations and national Olympic committees.

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Article Number: 117 * Published on 10/31/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Ten-year-old Richmond boy dreams of 2010 Olympics

He may only be 10, but Dylan Archambault of Richmond, British Columbia, is aiming to compete at the 2010 Winter Olypmics, when he'll be old enough to drive, but not yet old enough to vote.

The Juvenile Men's Division skater won a silver medal at a B.C. qualifier after placing third in the free skate and fourth in elements as SaskSkate, a skating competition held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

"I could have prepared myself better by getting my nerves under control," Archambault told the Richmond Review newspaper. "I had a better skate at regional as I controlled my nerves."

Archambault's immediate goal is the top three at B.C. Sections and to land his double axle consistently.

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Article Number: 113 * Published on 10/30/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Mission chooses Goosen chair of local Olympic benefits committee

The chair of the Mission Olympic Committee, a volunteer group hoping to bring benefits of the 2010 Games to the Fraser Valley town of Mission is Sandra Goosen, who says the committee's role is to work with the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee and Mission's economic development officer.

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Article Number: 114 * Published on 10/30/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG| Organizing committee chair says Furlong in hunt for CEO job

The new chairman of the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Jack Poole, says the most important task for the new Board is to find a Chief Executive Officer.

"If you get that right, it makes the Board's job a lot easier. It's extremely important to get that right," says Poole. One of the Committee's 19 director, Michael Phelps, is the chair of the Board's Task Force on finding the CEO, and Poole says a headhunter firm will be contracted to help with the search, which he expects to be completed "early in the new year."

Poole confirms that  John Furlong, president of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, which is now disbanding, is interested in the CEO's job and, "will be campaigning vigorously for it." Poole added, "John will make an excellent candidate." Poole says that during the next few months' transition time, the Organizing Committee will be temporarily contracting with the senior staff of the Bid Corporation. "They will be engaged short term, but not in a way that will tie the hands of the new CEO."

Poole says it's his role to "be the interface between management and directors" of the Committee. But he also says the Committee will be the most scrutinized and second-guessed organization in Vancouver during the run-up to the Games, and must adopt guidelines to compensate for that. He confirms that his chairmanship of Concert Properties, a large developer, will not pose a conflict of interest for him, noting that Concert announced earlier this year it would not take part in any aspect of the Olympic venues. "Concert will not be involved in any Olympic project," Poole says, "Period. Full Stop." Concert seconded or volunteered several senior staff of the firm to help win the Olypmic bid and prepare the Bid Book.

Poole also points out that Vancouver and Whistler now have the opportunity to host more than 50 winter sports championships between now and 2010, as a means for preparing the city for the Winter Games.

The Committee, at its first meeting, also formed the Finance and Audit Committee to track budgets and expenditures.



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Article Number: 43 * Published on 10/29/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG| Poole is chair of Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee; committees established

The former chief executive officer of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, Jack Poole, is the chairman of the 20-member board of directors of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Organizing Committee. The election of the a prominent Vancouver businessman by the directors was unanimous, as the Board set to work on a number of major projects.

Poole will be chairman until the committee’s first annual general meeting. The Board also announced that it will begin searching immediately for a Chief Executive Officer to run the operations of the Organizing Committee and its staff.

Board director Michael Phelps is chairing the CEO search task force, and hopes to have the options presented to the Board in early January. The search itself will take place through an executive-placement firm, but that firm has not yet been chosen and it is expected that it will take a few weeks just to do that.

John Furlong, who was president of Vancouver’s Bid Corporation says he will apply for the job. Poole said Furlong would be an outstanding candidate, noting that the two worked closely on the Bid for months and that he is quite familiar with the work to be done.

The Board meeting was a benchmark in Vancouver's transition from bidder to host of an Olympic Games. The Organizing Committee is now an incorporated company under the Canada Corporations Act, with a mandate to "support and promote the development of sport in Canada by planning, organizing, financing and staging the XXI Olympic Winter Games and X Paralympic Games."

The Board also formed its 2010 Audit and Finance Committee to be co-chaired by Ken Dobell. He is the Deputy Minister to the Premier of British Columbia and one of the provincial government's appointees to the Vancouver 2010 Board. The other co-chair is Brian Dolsen, who is assistant Deputy Minister of the Province's Olympic Games Secretariat. The move effectively gives the provincial government a strong, hands-on control of the financial aspects of the Games.
 
The Board also formed a 2010 Governance Task Force. It's job is to develop and recommend a governance framework, policies and procedures for the new corporation  It will be chaired by Rusty Goepel, a well-known investment dealer in Vancouver.

The difference between a task force and a committee is that the task force is given a job to do and, once it's done it, it disbands. A committee continues its work on an on-going basis. Both report to the Board of Directors.
 
The Board says staff from the 2010 Bid Corporation will continue to provide management services to the Games Organizing Committee on an interim basis until a new staffing structure can be set up by the still-to-be-hired CEO.
 
The Vancouver 2010 Board is made up of 20 members. Two members of the board of directors weren't at the meeting. Catriona Le May Doan, who has won a gold medal twice in Olympic speed skating commitments she couldn't avoid. Dick Pound, an IOC member, was in Paris for work involving the World Anti-Doping Agency, but took part in the meeting via speaker phone.

Seven directors were nominated by the Canadian Olympic Committee, and they include the three Canadian members of the International Olympic Committee; three each by the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia, two each from the City of Vancouver and the Resort Municipality of Whistler. As well, the Canadian Paralympic Committee nominates one, one is a joint appointment by the Indian Band Councils of the Lil'wat and Squamish N and one member nominated by the other 19 members, Jack Poole.
 
Board members are:
Nominated by:
Michael Chambers (Nominated by the Canadian Olympic Committee)
France Chrétien-Desmarais (Government of Canada)
Charmaine Crooks (Canadian Olympic Committee )
Peter Dhillon (Government of Canada)
Ken Dobell (Province of British Columbia)
Barrett Fisher (Resort Municipality of Whistler)
Jim Godfrey (Resort Municipality of Whistler)
Rusty Goepel (Province of British Columbia)
Paul Henderson (Canadian Olympic Committee )
Gibby Jacob (Squamish and Lil'wat First Nations)
Patrick Jarvis (Canadian Paralympic Committee)
Marion Lay (City of Vancouver)
Catriona Le May Doan (Canadian Olympic Committee)
Michael Phelps (Canadian Olympic Committee)
Jack Poole (Nominated by the other 19 directors)
Richard Pound (Canadian Olympic Committee)
Judy Rogers (City of Vancouver)
Chris Rudge (Canadian Olympic Committee)
Tony Tennessy (Government of Canada)
Richard Turner (Province of British Columbia)
 
Members of Vancouver 2010 Board task forces and committee appointed today are:
 
* 2010 CEO Search Task Force – Michael Phelps, Chair; France Chrétien-Desmarais, Richard Turner, Judy Rogers, Jim Godfrey, Patrick Jarvis, Gibby Jacob

* 2010 Audit and Finance Committee – Ken Dobell, Brian Dolsen, Co-Chairs; Tony Tennessy, Judy Rogers, Jim Godfrey, Chris Rudge, Gibby Jacob

* 2010 Governance Task Force – Rusty Goepel, Chair; Peter Dhillon, Marion Lay, Barrett Fisher, Richard Pound

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Article Number: 111 * Published on 10/29/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |IOC| IOC, Vancouver Organizing Committee to meet Nov 13

Representatives of the International Olympic Committee will hold an orientation seminar covering the basics in Games preparations for the new Vancouver 2010 Olympic Organizing Committee from November 13 to 15 in Vancouver at the Bayshore Hotel.

The three-day seminar is being held in order to support the Organizing Committee in the initial 12 months of planning and operations for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Meetings such as this are expected to be held at least every six months until the Games are finished.

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Article Number: 112 * Published on 10/29/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Glass's goal is gold at 2010 Olympics

Julie Glass is an 11-time world champion American in-line skating athlete who is determined to win gold in speedskating in Vancouver's 2010 Olympics. She's also aiming to compete in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics as a speed skater.

She noticed that former in-line American skaters Derek Parra, Jennifer Rodriguez and Joey Cheek won speedskating medals at Salt Lake City's Winter Olympics., so she figured if they could do it, so could she. So right after those Olympics, the 24-year-old began training at Calgary's Olympic Oval. It was the first time she had ever worn speedskates, and her experience on ice skates at all up to that point was brief. That didn't faze her in the least, neither does the fact that she'll be in her early 30s when it's time for Vancouver's games.

After skating all winter, she returned to Salt Lake's Facilitated Athlete Sport Training program, but continued her in-line training as well. This past summer she competed in the world in-line championships in Barquisimeto, Venezuela and the Pan-American Games in the Dominican Republic, where she won gold in the in-line combined distance event and bronze in the combined sprint event.

She'll be back on the ice again this winter.

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Article Number: 106 * Published on 10/28/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Study for 2010 Olympics organizers predicts shortfalls in staffing in more than 25 occupations

A study prepared fro 2010 Olympic organizers predicts that in only seven of 25 major occupations, there won't be sufficient experienced people to fill all the job openings that will be available because of demand caused by the Games, and other major projects over the next seven years. That will have the effect of driving the wage costs in those occupations up during the run-up to the games.

By the same token, there will also be 18 occupations which will have surplus of people to fill the available jobs, and that will have the effect of driving wages in those occupations down toward British Columbia's minimum wage. But overall there will be 57% more people available for jobs than there will be openings.

Rosilyn Kunin & Associates reports the worst situation involves contractors and construction supervisors for trades and related jobs, with an overall shortage of 70% of the estimated demand of 15,700 projected job openings for these positions if training isn't undertaken to offset the problem. The report says this shortage will persist from the present right through to 2015, the outside edge of her study. The next worst will be managers in construction and transportation, with an overall shortage of 59% of estimated demand, which she estimates to be 11,375 projected job openings during the whole period.

On the other hand, there are expected to be three times as many people looking for work in the occupations of trades, helpers and labourers as there are jobs. Kunin predicts a 308% surplus on 5,255 of those types of jobs, which seems like an extraordinarily low estimate of the number of these type of jobs expected to be created by the large projects anticipated.

Construction representatives say that the shortages in these areas could mean that some construction projects and the bids for them will come in about 20% more than expected.

Others where there's a gap:
Managers in food services: Shortfall is 36% of 23,713 projected job openings.
Managers in retail trade: 15% shortfall in 24,269 openings
Motor Vehicle and Transit Drivers: 15% of 37,749 openings
Auditors, accountants and Investment professionals: an 11% gap on 28,706 openings
Administrative and Regulatory occupations: a 4% gap on 20,953 openings

Among other types of jobs where there's a surfeit:
Cashiers: 142% on 20,254
Travel and accommodation jobs: 141%, 1,675 jobs - The Kunin projects the surplus right out until 2015, but during the 2010 Olympics, the surplus will drop as hiring occurs in and around the Games.

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Article Number: 107 * Published on 10/28/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Former Olympian to head Comox Valley's 2010 Olympic Committee

A bronze medal winner in Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympics will chair the Comox Valley's 2010 Olympic committee. The B.C. Government's Minister of Sustainable Resource Management Stan Hagen, who is also the member of the B.C. Legislature for the Comox Valley, asked Susan Kelsey to chair the committee. It will be a volunteer position.

Kelsey was known as Sue Sloan when she won a bronze medal for swimming in the 4 x 100m medley relay nearly 30 years ago. She also trained for the 1980 Olympics to be held in Moscow, but Canada boycotted the Summer Games that year.

Kelsey is now a lawyer.

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Article Number: 108 * Published on 10/28/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Cariboo Ski club given $20,550 to upgrade ski, biathalon facilities at Hallis Lake

The Cariboo Ski Touring Club will receive C$20,550 from the federal Softwood Industry Community Economic Adjustment Initiative to upgrade ski and biathalon facilities at Hallis Lake, 14.5 kilometres from
Quesnel in British Columbia's central interior.

The money will be used to make the trails ‘Olympic-ready’ for international Olympic teams who must then be convinced to want to use them for training facilities before the games. The upgrading includes a new 3.5 kilometre trail, replacing grooming equipment, building a shelter at the biathalon range and placing more signage.

The Cariboo biathalon range is one of the best in British Columbia. Hallis Lake was the setting for the cross-country skiing and biathalon events in the 2000 B.C. Winter Games.

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Article Number: 110 * Published on 10/28/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Smithers backs Olympics Opportunity committee for regional presentations

The Council of Smithers in north-central British Columbia has approved a request by Brian Northup, chair of the Bulkley Valley 2010 Olympic Opportunity Committee, that it support a regional presentation on all Olympics programs which could benefit all the northwestern communities from Kitimat to Burns Lake. The presentation would be held for the benefit of the committee, local and regional governments and chambers of commerce.

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Article Number: 102 * Published on 10/23/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Vancouver approves bylaw to hinder hotel conversions in advance of 2010 Games

A new bylaw approved by Vancouver’s city council will hinder owners of low-rent hotels from converting them to tourist rooms. Although the bylaw was tied to the 2010 Games, it does not carry a sunset clause. Hotel owners would be fined $5,000 for every room they convert.

Vancouver councilor Jim Green, who spoke in favour of the bylaw, wanted to prevent low-income tenants from being evicted to make room for tourists , claiming that's what happened when the city hosted the 1986 Expo, although there's little evidence such conversions took place on a large scale then.

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Article Number: 105 * Published on 10/23/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business
Government
OCOG| Environmental impact of key concern for Turin in 2006 Winter Games, foreshadows Vancouver's 2010 games

The Organizing Committee of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin (TOROC) has released its first environmental balance sheet. The report is an essential part of Turin 2006'role in keeping the public informed about the effect of Games preparations on the environment, and it foreshadows the type of document and transparency the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Committee will need to produce.

The theme of environmental respect is one that will also be at the forefront of preparations for the 2010 Winter Games. Vancouver’s slogan is "From Sea to Sky, Driven by Nature."

Turin's aim is to ensure the Alps are used for sport in a sustainable way. As with other mountain ranges in the vicinity of densely populated areas, such as Vancouver and Whistler, the Alps near Turin combine a fragile ecosystem with a high demand for sport and leisure use.

Implementing an approach based on sustainability has resulted in the adoption of measures, such as a Green Procurement program to encourages the development of environmentally-sound products.

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Article Number: 103 * Published on 10/22/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Business| Justice Institute of BC prepares courses to train 2010 Olypmpic security, medical staff

The Justice Institute of B.C. has begun including the 2010 Olympics in its plans for expanding its New Westminster campus, which opened eight years ago and is now near capacity.

It is now creating a critical incident simulation centre, which would train emergency response units, to be set up, at least in temporary quarters, by the fall of 2004. It will be made available for planning and security training for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Officials recently went to China with a New Westminster delegation so they could meet with Beijing 2008 Olympics officials about training for security and emergency medical people, and to finalize a three-year contract to train Beijing police.

Planning work is in the concept stage for about 200,000 square feet in additional floor space, a tower, and a parkade and possibly residences for students.

JIBC is an unusual public college type of institution that provides education and training in the fields that help keep communities safe and includes training for municipal police, firefighters, paramedics, corrections officers, court sheriffs and emergency management. It trains 27,000 students a year in 170 B.C. communities as well as 4,500 people on the Internet.



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Article Number: 97 * Published on 10/21/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| 2010 officials urge BC communities to focus on Olympic tourism and business opportunities

More than 80 communities in British Columbia have now established local Olympic committees, and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says that starting early on the process of searching out opportunities is the key to success. “The Olympics presents an opportunity, but it does not present a guarantee,” Campbell told an audience of business executives in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. “The earlier you start, the better.”

The committees include local Members of the B.C. Legislature, representatives from chambers of commerce and community residents and are aimed at increasing chances their local community will capitalize on the run-up to the 2010 Games

Sam Corea, a communications officer with the 2010 organizing committee, has urged municipalities to focus on tourism and business opportunities. The province is promising to provide $40 million to build facilities that feature live television coverage of Olympic events. A community, Corea said, can apply for funding to expand a sport facility and use it for Games’ broadcasts.

Other ideas involved communities adopting a team from a particular country, then inviting athletes to practice in their community in preparation for the Games.

The province is also going to assist in developing a home-stay program so that people can offer their homes to families of athletes before and during the Games.

Campbell said putting on the Games will require a wide range of things, such as training facilities, competition locations, accommodation, sports equipment, bedding — even hand-warmers.

The bidding process will begin in 2007 to supply the myriad items needed by those involved with the Games. Coupled with this, the provincial government suggests that thousands of tradespeople will be required to build locations, hotels and convention centres for the athletes and hundreds of thousands of visitors.

About $510 million has been set aside to build, renovate and expand facilities for the Games.


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Article Number: 99 * Published on 10/20/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Surrey hoping to rent Semiamhmoo ice hockey rink to Olympic-bound teams

Surrey’s 2010 committee is hoping to rent the Semiahmoo Peninsula ice hockey rink — the only Olympic sized hockey rink in the Greater Vancouver area to the Olympics, athletes and their training crews
In the years leading up to the Games.

Surrey's committee is thinking it might be able to rent the facility to 10 teams for a month each year, attracting as much as $1 million in expenditures.

Surrey’s committee will also run forums to help business bid for product and service contracts.

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Article Number: 100 * Published on 10/20/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| Kermode emblem of 2010 filed in House of Commons

 The pitch to make the Kermode bear as the symbol of the 2010 Olympic Games made it to Parliament today, as Skeena Canadian Alliance MP Andy Burton made a pitch to encourage members of Palriament to support the white bear as the emblem of the games.
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This animal would make a perfect mascot for the Vancouver/Whistler winter games,” Burton told the House of Common.

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Article Number: 109 * Published on 10/20/2003
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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 |Sports| Olympic-level skiers to train at Silver Star resort in next six weeks

Several Olympic-level winter sports organizations will be training at Silver Star resort in late October and November, as the groups begin aligning their competitions towards the 2010 Games. The resort is in a mountainous area of British Columbia's Okanagan, 22 km (12 miles) northeast of Vernon.

The National Development Team begins training on Oct. 25. In November, the Canadian National Cross Country Ski Team and the National Training Centre will be on site.

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Article Number: 82 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Swedish hockey medalist eying strong competition at 2010 Winter Games

Seventeen year old Kim Martin, who won a Bronze medal as a Swedish goaltender in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has her eye on playing in more Olympic games right through to 2010 in Vancouver, when she'll be 24.

Martin had a 1.67 goals-against average in Salt Lake City, and so far the win over Findland, the first time a Swedish women's hockey team won a medal position in the Olympics, was the biggest game yet.

She told the International Ice Hockey Federation that North American teams are strong, and that Canada the U.S. have more female hockey players than the rest of the hockey world, and Canada has almost more girls playing hockey than Sweden has boys playing the game.

"No wonder," she says, "they are first and second in every tournament. But I hope that we can give them a hard time in [the 2004 IIHF World Championship next April] in Halifax, and that definitely should be the case in the 2006 Olympics in Turin. And by 2010 in Vancouver, we will be on the same level."

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Article Number: 84 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Weightlifting championships willing to train volunteers for 2010 games

The World Weightlifting Championships, which will be held from November 14-22 at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, are calling for volunteers and suggesting it will give them good experience for volunteering at the 2010 Winter Games.

Lis Petersen, Events Services Manager for the event said, "This is a great way to begin gaining experience if you're interested in volunteering for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games."

The weightlifting championships, the first held in Canada, are expected to draw more than 600 competitors from 81 countries.


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Article Number: 86 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| City to unload 2010 Bid support materials by year's end

A report to Vancouver City Council's meeting next Tuesday says the City will sell off a batch of leftover 2010 Bid marketing materials, mostly art banners, by the end of the year. The city has 840 street banners, about a third of which have the stylized "sea to sky" bid logo and about 550 come with various icons.

The banners are two metres long by 80 centimetres wide and there are 23 sport icons in the set.

The icons and the logos were designed specifically for the bid portion of the 2010 Games. New emblems and logos will be developed by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for Olympic Games in 2010 later.

The banners cost the city $60,000 to produce and install. The sale is expected to recover $20,000, which would normally go to UNICEF, for resale but because the cost of the 2010 banners came out of the City's contingency fund, the money raised would be returned to the fund.

The banners are expected to go on sale around the end of the year or early next year, at city hall.

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Article Number: 91 * Published on 10/17/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Administration| Calgary Olypmics legacy facilities to cost millions to upgrade for 2010

John Mills, president of the Calgary Olympic Development Association, estimates it would cost between C$35 million and C$40 million to upgrade former Olympic facilities in Calgary so they could properly accommodate athletes when they train for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Ottawa is being pitched to help on the cost.

Mills says the speed-skating oval, once said to be the fastest ice in the world, is no longer up to gold standards, yet, he says we ask athletes to meet new standards and to break new ground when they compete at Olympic games. Mills says state-of-the-art video, timing and other equipment would need to replace existing assets.

It is estimated it would cost C$2.7 million to repair the oval's leaking roof.

About $2 million was spent at Canada Olympic Park this year on a shading system for the bobsled track to bring it in line with new provincial safety regulations.; the money came from an endowment fund for maintenance set up following the 1988 Winter Olympics.

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Article Number: 78 * Published on 10/16/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Sto:lo to work with Hope to encourage 2010 athlete training

Sto:Lo Indian Band Councillor Sue Savola, who also heads the group's local 2010 Olympic Games committee, hopes to market the community of Hope, at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, to small countries in the world who need places to practice for their athletes, but can't afford to send their team for a lengthy stay in Whistler.

Hope is currently working with Savola in an effort to win a Sto:lo bid to host the 2008 Indigenous Games, which focus on track and field, lacrosse, canoeing, archery, and volleyball. The bid was entered October 1.

There are 24 Sto:Lo indian bands in the eastern Fraser Valley.

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Article Number: 80 * Published on 10/16/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| B.C. premier to talk up 2010 Olympics during U.S. trade visits

British Columbia Gordon Campbell will be talking about the 2010 Olympics, Vancouver's role in them and tourism investment as he works his way through several U.S. state capitals this week on a trade mission with Alberta Premier Ralph Klein.

They'll stop first in California's Silicon Valley, to speak to businesses in the hi-tech sector. Later in the week, in Houston, the two will speak on oil and gas. The two provinces will also team up to develop a phys-ed program focused on the 2010 Winter Olympic Games .

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Article Number: 68 * Published on 10/15/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| Kamloops editorial considers Olympics lottery reaction

A community newspaper columnist in Kamloops thinks a lottery to support Olympics athletes would not get the same adverse reaction in the press as the BC Lottery Corporation's new Canucks game.

"If the Canadian government launched a lottery with partial proceeds to go to amateur Canadian athletes seeking to compete for their country in the summer or winter Olympics, chances are there would be little, if any, public protest against the plan," says the editorial in Kamloops This Week in its October 12th edition, written by journalist-broadcaster John Pifer. "But that is a far cry from the disturbing and unjust introduction by the British Columbian government of a scratch-and-lose lottery game in which a portion of the take will go to the National Hockey League Vancouver Canucks."

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Article Number: 69 * Published on 10/15/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG| Furlong willing to compete for CEO job of V-OCOG

Former Olympic Bid Corporation chairman John Furlong feels the fledgling Vancouver Organizing Committee (V-OCOG) should hold a nationwide, transparent job hunt for CEO, even though he fully intends to compete for the job, which should be awarded by January.

His former boss, Bid Chairman Jack Poole is expected to get the nod as chair of the V-OCOG when the newly appointed Board meets October 28, and both were honoured as sports executives of the year by Sports Media Canada at the group's annual achievement awards for their work on the Bid, but Poole feels the organizing committee will be heavily scrutinized throughout its life and that will start with how it chooses its CEO.

It will be getting C$310 million from each of the federal and provincial governments, plus more than US$800-million for American television rights, along with money from ticketing, merchandising and sponsorships, and so its operation has to be clear.

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Article Number: 74 * Published on 10/15/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| Forty entries for unofficial 2010 emblem flood northern newspaper

A community newspaper in Terrace says a wide range of artists have offered designs in answer to The Terrace Standard’s “Unofficial 2010 Winter Olympics Emblem Contest,” yet another shot over the bow of the 2010 Winter Olympic organizers from the 'Use the Kermode bear" folks in northern British Columbia.

Terrace Standard publisher Rod Link says, "We heard from locals as well as people from Stewart [Alaska] and as far away as High Level, Alberta. There were school students, graphic artists, photographers, gas jockeys, a professional chef and a receptionist." In all, 30 people submitted nearly 40 entries . “They came in by email, by regular mail or by being dropped off at out front counter,” he said.

The primary contest rule required entrants to incorporate the Kermode bear and the Olympic rings into the emblem. “It’s part of the campaign to make the Kermode part of the official 2010 Winter Olympics symbol,” Link said. The entries will be judged shortly, with prizes of Olympic merchandise provided by the member of the BC legislature for Skeena, Roger Harris.

The designs can be seen here:


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Article Number: 76 * Published on 10/15/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Podium 2010 program hopes to put B.C. figure skaters in the medals

The B.C. Section of the Canadian Figure Skating Association has established a program called Podium 2010 to focus its efforts on putting skaters in medal positions during the 2010 Winter Olympics. It hopes to have at least three B.C. skaters on the 2010 Canadian Olympic team, which will be supervised by Skate Canada.

Current Canadian men's champion Emanual Sandhu of British Columbia, Annie Bellemare , who has won a bronze medal, and the Megan Wing - Aaron Lowe dance team from B.C. are expected to be role models by 2010 for people such as Canadian champion Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, juvenile champion Matt McEwan of Surrey, Tanika Gibbons of Richmond and Mira Leung of Vancouver.

It will be the job of the new director Andre Bourgeois to make the promise of Podium 2010 a reality.

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Article Number: 92 * Published on 10/15/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| Kermode whups marmots over 2010 mascot fight even in Cowichan Valley

The friendly rivalry between the supporters of two British Columbia animals vying for mascot status at the 2010 Olympic Games continues apace, even though the Games organizers are some time from inviting calls for such information, let alone making the decision.

The latest battle was an on-line poll conducted by the Courtenay-Comox Valley Record community newspaper, which revealed that 42 people preferred the Kermode, a white bear favoured by northern B.C. supporters, over 35 who chose the marmot, a rare and endangered rodent whose only habitat is near the Cowichan Valley.

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Article Number: 71 * Published on 10/14/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Government| District of 100 Mile House ponders support of ski chairlift for Olympic grant

The council for the District of 100 Mile House in the Cariboo area of British Columbia's interior is pondering whether to support a request by the Mt. Timothy Ski Society for a $200,000 grant from the B.C. government's Olympics legacy program. The money would be used to develop Red Chair, a chairlift for a ski area near 100 Mile House. Council earlier gave the Society a $1,500 grant-in-aid for the Chair's development.

Jim Fraser, vice-president of the Society, told the council, "I believe the chair lift will provide an excellent, inexpensive training venue for Olympic hopefuls for athletes." The Society needs the support of councils from 100 Mile from the City of Williams Lake to have a chance at the limited supply of funds in the program that has been swamped with requests.

100 Mile council felt it should only choose to support one or two requests that they feel will be most beneficial to 100 Mile, not every request made.

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Article Number: 98 * Published on 10/14/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Administration
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OCOG| Co-ordination meeting between IOC, V-OCOG to be first for Olympics

The three-day co-ordination meeting the International Olympic Committee will be holding in Vancouver with the newly appointed Vancouver Organizing Committee (V-OCOG) will be the first time the IOC will offer preliminary training to local officials in hosting a games.

Representatives of the IOC and V-OCOG, including IOC President Jacques Rogge and Rene Fasel, chair of the IOC's Vancouver coordination committee, will be meeting November 14 to 16 at the Westin Bayshore Hotel on the city's waterfront to review the jobs that need to be done as preparations for the games in 2010 begin. They will be discussing sport, finance, accommodation and transport. The decision to hold such a co-ordination meeting stemmed from the results of studies done six months ago in reviewing the successes and failures of previous games. Fasel feels that ensuring a strong IOC - Vancouver partnership is crucial for the success of the 2010 Games.

The studies show that often organizers of previous games lost critical time because of inexperience and sometimes spent money in the wrong places as a result. The new IOC training program is designed to keep the new Board focused on doing the right things early, and the co-ordination committee, at this point, is planning on meeting with the V-OCOG at least twice a year, or more if necessary.

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Article Number: 67 * Published on 10/13/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| Prince George 2010 committee gets kudos from Calgary Olympic executive

John Mills, president of the Calgary Olympic Development Association and the past president of Sports BC, thinks the 2010 North Committee in Prince George, BC, with its idea of establishing a Northern Sports Centre (NSC) has the right idea., but some of what he had to say could apply to any community in British Columbia.

He told a group of about 50 people at the Prince George Civic Centre that they were "ahead of the curve" and that the city is one of the few cities in B.C. other than Vancouver and Whistler with the "potential to make the Olympics work for you. You have strategic advantages here that no one has elsewhere. The proximity of the university and the college, the airport. You can actually get to Europe or wherever you want faster from Prince George than you can from other winter sport areas. You've got the trails [Cranbrook Hill]. The snow from November to late in the season. You have the sports culture."

The people behind the Centre have four goals: Establish Prince George as a winter city link, promote tourism, host pre-Olympic events and create a winter sports training centre.

University of Northern BC president Charles Jago told the group that, "It is important to be supportive of the Olympic bid right from the start. There were many [British Columbia] communities who were not supportive. Our gathering at the university was the biggest outside Vancouver and Whistler when the vote was held."

Jago said the NSC be a place for high performance athletes to train but will also focus on research through Prince George's northern medical program for sports-related health.

Mills said that legacies from the 1988 Games in Calgary continue to pay off for the community even decades later. The Olympic Oval has two ice rinks on the infield of the oval, used for minor hockey, while speedskaters use the outer oval, but it also makes the University of Calgary, where it's located, a familiar place for them.

Mills says the geographic location of athletes doesn't make the difference, opportunity does. "The kids who grow up in this community are just the same as the ones who grow up in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal. They aren't any different. The difference is opportunity, support and exposure. What you are doing by trying to create this Centre is getting that speed skater in Fort St. James [B.C.] the opportunity to take a step towards an Olympic gold."

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Article Number: 77 * Published on 10/13/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |General| Similkameen farmer interested in helping 2010 Olympic athletes

Councilors for the village of Princeton in B.C.'s interior say the granger who runs the Young Life Facility located east of town is "extremely interested "in using the area for athlete residents while they train for the 2010 games.

They report he will be working closely with Princeton Parks and Recreation Co-ordinator Lyle Thomas in constructing the bid.

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Article Number: 70 * Published on 10/10/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |Sports| Quesnel urged to use 2010 Games as one reason for upgrading ice rink

Doug Pauze, President of the Minor Hockey Association in Quensel, and his treasurer, Colin Keis, is urging his B.C. Interior community to upgrade its ice arena to help increase the chance Quesnel will qualify for 2010 Legacy grants offered by federal and provincial governments.

They say Quesnel should consider increased community demand for ice-time from all types of skaters and a multi-use facility should be constructed.

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Article Number: 36 * Published on 10/2/2003
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG| Organizing Committee appointee says budget, timetable biggest challenges

Peter Dhillon, chief executive officer of Richberry Group of Companies and vice-chairman of Ocean Spray and Cranberries Inc. and now one of the directors representing the Canadian federal government on the Vancouver Organizing Committee, says the biggest challenge for the Committee will be "getting things done on time and on budget."

He believes Vancouver must be "at the top of its game" during Feburary and March 2010, which the games, and its accompanying Paralymic Games, will be held.
Dhillon hopes the event's media broadcast centre will be built in Richmond, the Vancouver suburb where he lives. Dhillon's initial appointment is for three years, until the fall of 2006. Another Richmond resident, Rick Turner, president and chief executive officer of Sea Island-based International Aviation Terminals Management, is also on the 19-member board; he was appointed by the provincial government, also for three years.


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Article Number: 37 * Published on 10/2/2003
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