Putting Our Best "Athletic" Foot Forward

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 03:59 AM

This is it, the day the Western Summer Games Committee comes to Prince George to see if this city has what it takes to host the 2011 Western Canada Summer games.

The Selection Committee will spend a couple of hours this morning touring the City.

Events P.G. Virginia Sprangers is hopeful residents will offer some support “If you see the bus, give a honk , or a wave, just to let the Selection Committee see that the community is behind this effort”

Although the tour will wind its way through Prince George to various locations (including the Dr. Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre) the Committee will get off the bus twice, once at Masich Place Stadium, and again at the Aquatic Centre to view the facilities.

“We are presenting this tour as if it were a day at the games” says Sprangers. “We will have some play by play announcing and sounds of real basketball, baseball and soccer games to give it a real feel for what it will be like.”

Over the lunch hour, the Selection Committee will see a cultural display at the Civic Centre, and meet with several Mayors from northern communities who will show their support for the P.G. hosting. That is one of the aspects of the P.G. bid that set it apart from other cities vying for the games, as Prince George’s bid was submitted as a regional project.

Kamloops is the other city in the running for the games.

The games are held every 4 years and will bring 2500 athletes, coaches, performers and visitors from the four western provinces and the territories.

Will Prince George win?

Sprangers is optimistic “I have a very good feeling.”

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Posted by: Palopu on May 2 2007 8:56 AM

No doubt the tour will avoid our Downtown Area, which means they will miss the **Local Fights** **Beer Bottle Throwing** **Cement Sidewalk Sleeping** **Bottle Scavenging** and Sandwich Line-up Competitions.

They will also miss the **Close your store and board up you windows competition*, and who can keep a burned out building on location the longest competition.

Im sure that they have set out a route that will avoid the downtown, while trying to showcase the Civic Centre, City Hall, Arts Centre, etc;

Hopefully we will not have a **bad air day**

Posted by: Harbinger on May 2 2007 12:04 PM

Athletic foot? Ain't they got ointment fer that?

Posted by: realitycheck on May 2 2007 7:55 PM

I'm not sure of your point Pal. Of course they'll skip downtown, as do 99% of our PG population.
It's events like this, and the civic pride it brings, that may give our City the will to change.

Posted by: diplomat on May 3 2007 7:35 PM

Any idea when that huge excavation hole at the corner of 97 South and 16 West (in front of the opulent Treasure Cove casino) is going to get filled in and properly landscaped?

It is an eyesore.

Posted by: owl on May 3 2007 7:44 PM

"who can keep a burned out building on location the longest competition."

I am wondering about that one as well ....

Posted by: owl on May 3 2007 7:47 PM

"It's events like this, and the civic pride it brings, that may give our City the will to change"...

This is not the first event like this we have had .... why would it be different from previous ones?

There are many reasons to be "proud" of PG, but the one visible reason which is present in every single city simply does not meet the standard.

Posted by: owl on May 3 2007 7:48 PM

Actually they are working on it .... they may have been using "soil", if you wish to call it that, from the new hole in town.

Posted by: Palopu on May 3 2007 8:08 PM

I thought it was going to be a stash for all the gold that **Long John Major** has pirated away from the Casino.

15 Gamblers on a dead mans chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Lean to me heartys we must bury this gold before the sun rises, and be on our way.