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Chance to carry flame lucky opportunity'CONT I) from Page 1Saskatchewan on the day the Erickson students are running.Art Buller, principal of Erickson Collegiate, said a teacher at the school encouraged the 185 students at the school to enter the contest.Despite the odds, Elizabeth Voyer of Petro-Canada said she's not really surprised by the coincidence.“In any kind of lottery anything can happen,-’ she said from her office in Calgary. “It's funny the way it works out sometimes.” Meanwhile, for one kilometre early Saturday morning after the torch is passed to him, Eugene, 13, will become a part of the 1988 Winter Games as he carries the flame down Victoria Avenue.“I feel really good about it,” he said. “It's a real lucky opportunity.”Eugene’s father said the whole family is “getting keyed up.”“As the day gets closer, the whole thing becomes more exciting,” Lawrence Warwaruk said. “I think it’s a great privilege to be able to carry the torch on behalf of other people in the province. It’s a part of Manitoba’s history.”Me said he doesn’t mind getting up at 4 a.m. Saturday morning to drive Eugene the 80 kilometres into Brandon for his briefing with Olympic torch relay organizers before the relay resumes at 7 a mMeanwhile, A1 Miller, co-ordinator of the Manitoba portion of the relay, said snowmobiles are being used in most of the sparsely populated rural areas.' They'll travel at about 18 kilometres an hour, but can speed up if they’re behind time,” he said. Torchbearers on the back of the snowmobiles are changed every six or eight kilometres.After the relay ends on the outskirts of Brandon on Friday, the Lions Clubs of Brandon have arranged for the torch to be run into the Keystone Centre to end an evening of entertainment and demonstrations by amateur sport groups. It begins at 7 p.m. andadmission is the purchase of a $2 Olympic Candle.Ben Ward, the chairman of the event, said 1,000 of the candles have been sold, and he hopes the Keystone Centre will be sold out by Friday night.He said proceeds from the event could amount to as much as $2,500 and will be distributed to amateur sport organizations in the city.Meanwhile, here’s the relay schedule through Manitoba:Thursday. Jan. 14 — Day 59• 2:39 p.m — Torch will be carried across Ontario Manitoba border on Trans-Canada Highway• 7:39 p.m 10-minute stop for ceremony in Ste. Anne.• 8:57 p m. — Hits the eastern edge of Winnipeg at the junction of the perimeter highway and the Trans-Canada Highway. End of day's activitieslriday. Jan. 15— Day SO• 7 a m Relay begins again where they left off the night before at junction of perimeter highway and Trans-Canada, heading into Win mpeg• 9 01 a.in. — Relay stops at the Legislative Building for 10-minute ceremony Speakers from city and province, including the premier• 12:33 p m — Another 10-minute ceremony in Elie.• 2:25 pm— 10-minute ceremony in Portage la Prairie• 4:11 pin. — 10-minute ceremony in MacGregor. Joint festivities hosted by the mayor of MacGregor and the Reeve of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk, which in eludes the tow ns of Austin, Sidney and Bagot• 5:22 pm. — Approximately 25 kilometreswest of Carberry. the relay leaves the Trans-Canada Highway and continues along Provin cial Highway 351• 6:05 p.in — 10-minute ceremony in Carberry Approximately 30 kilometres west of Carberry, the relay once again hooks up with the Trans-Canada Highway.• 7:52 p.m. — Relay ends for the day at junction of Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 1A on outskirts of BrandonSaturday , Jan 16 — Day 61• 7 a.m. — Torch is run into Brandon via First Street N Ceremony begins at city hall• 7:42 a.m. — 10-minute stop at city hall in Brandon.• 10:11 a m. — Brief two-mmute ceremony in Oak Lake• II :09 a m — 10 minute ceremony in Virden .• 12:28 p.m. Brief two minute ceremony in Elkhorn The last stop in the province• 1:09 p m. — The torch will be carried across Mamtoba-Saskatchewan border on the Trans Canada Highway.School-to-school Olympic run plannedby DENISE DUGUAY Sun StaffBrandon elementary school students and teachers will celebrate the spirit of the 15th Olympic Winter Games and help welcome the official Olympic torch by holding their own torch run P’riday afternoon.“We were promoting awareness of the Calgary Olympics and so we decided on a timed school-to-school torch run,” said Dave Shyiak, administrator of physical education and recreation for the school division.Three students and teachers will represent each of the 14 schools involved, starting the run near Riverview school at about 1p.m. and ending back at Riverview shortly after 3 p.m“Of the three runners, one will carry a torch very close to the real Olympic torch, one will carry the Olympic flag and the other will carry the Canadian flag,” Shyiak said.The afternoon run will set the stage for the arrival of the real torch, which will be part of an Olympic rally at the Keystone PTiday evening prior to being officially run through the city early Saturday morning.A similar school torch relay was held in Winnipeg earlier this week.Shyiak said the school runners will be transported to theschool coming before them in the run so they end their trek in front of their own schools.“We wanted them to be welcomed by their own schoolmates.”Schools are planning ceremonies for the symbolic torch exchanges which will last about one minute at each school. Ceremonies could include choir performances of Share the Flame, team-sport competitions and art displays.All participants will wear the orange safety patrol vests and a police car will accompany the procession, Shyiak said.“All we’re wondering about now is the weather. We’re hopingit won’t be too cold, but in Winnipeg it was -28 C and the kids never seemed to notice,” Shyiak said.Steve Andreychuk, a Grade 5 teacher at George PTtton school, is one participant in Friday’s run.“I’m not a runner,” he said. “But I have a great respect and reverence for this kind of thing.”The 49-year-old teacher said he’s been “running like crazy” to get in shape for P'riday’s run.“I’ve got to make sure I make it, don’t I?” Especially, he said, since all his students will be watching.Andreychuk will be accompanied by two Grade 6 students — Bonnie Little and Jason Miller.
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