Subject: July 31, 1998

Greetings:

This is an exciting time of the year for competitive archers. Our junior men's compound team won the bronze medal at Junior Worlds in Sweden !!!!! Yeaaaaaaaa! Congrats to everyone. Our wheelchair archers are off to London to shoot their worlds. Good luck/Bon Chance! And back at home, the 3D nationals start today and the Target nationals are only 11 days away.

1. Les nouveau regles de FITA sont disponible en francais, mais seulement livre numero 2 "Constitution et Reglements" . Si vous voudrez commander une copie, envoyez 5$ au bureau d'Ottawa avant le fin d'aout.

2. Please note the following address changes effective this weekend: Sean McKenty/Fiona McClean: 1829 Drouillard Road, Windsor, Ontario. N8W 3X4 Phone, fax and e-mail stay the same.

Our records chairperson, Christiane Murphy has an new e-mail address: christiane.murphy@chuq.qc.ca

3. The 16th World Field Archery Championships start in Austria on August 4th. Canada has no participants. There are 199 archers competing from 23 countries. There is a Canadian there though. Dennis Mrokwia is officiating. Enjoy the mountains.

4. Congratulations go to two of our athletes who have just been named to the 1998-99 Petro Canada Olympic Torch Scholarship Fund. They are Julie Welburn and Robert Rusnov. The list was just received in the office yesterday. Hopefully those two people will be hearing directly from COA in the near future. Again, congratulations. Only 131 athletes received these scholarships.

5. WORLD RANKING Congratulations also goes to Caroline Labrecque who is officially ranked 31st in the World by FITA in the recurve women division! She is the only Canadian to be ranked in the top 50 recurve listing published July 1998. A copy of the listing has been forwarded to COA. Felicitations!!!

6. Pan Am Games

First, don't forget that ticket orders should be in tomorrow!!! HA! I've heard from Sue Hall in Winnipeg that the general public has been offered tickets already, so if you want to make sure you get some for opening and closing ceremonies, or archery and other events, you'd better get in touch with this office before I leave for nationals.

Secondly, anyone interested in volunteering at the Pan Am Games can contact this office for an application. Get to see the Games for free and meet people from all over the Americas!

7. Excellence 2000 Thanks to Jacquie Saito for getting the Excellence 2000 welcoming packages off and running. We had a great time making up the letters!! So, the first batch of English ones are out, and our faithful translator Alain Gravel is going to help us out with the rest. For those of you who were renewing in Excellence, a special letter will be included in the next InfoExcellence in mid-August.

8. And, finally a note from the stressed-out contract worker (me): If I've made typos, sorry. Right now getting the membership report ready for nationals, AGM reports published, working with Revenue Canada over some problems, and getting the year-end financial report ready with the auditors is taking up gobs and gobs of time. I get a little punchy, so just excuse any mistakes this time. (You don't even have to tell me about them, OK)

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

PS THE OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED FROM FRDIAY AUGUST 7 AT 5:30 PM UNTIL MONDAY AUGUST 24 AT 8:45 AM EDT.

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