Les nouvelles/news 2000/10/06
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Greetings/Bonjour:
This week FCA received word that a new National Sport Centre will open soon in Saskatchewan. Now there will be a national centre in every western province. More details will follow. This week's bulletin is short since I'm having way too much fun preparing 4 huge sport and national team assessments out during the Sport Canada funding review process.
Shawn Riggs will be representing FCA at the annual Athletes Can conference in Calgary this November.
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Cette semaine Athletes Can a announce un nouveau centre national du sport. Il ouvrira bientot en Saskatchewan. En ce temps-la on peut entrainer au centre du sport dans chaque province de l'ouest du Canada. Je publierai les plus amples informations quand ils seront disponibles.
Ce bulletin est tres bref. Je dois completer 4 questionnaires immenses du Sport Canada concernant notre programme du Haute Performance et aussi de notre sport entire. On doit completer tous les questionnaires si la FCA aurait recu les subventions.
Shawn Riggs nous representera au reunion d'Athletes Can a Calgary ce novembre.
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1. VOICEPRINT PROMISES COMPLETE PARALYMPIC COVERAGE! (uniquement en anglais)
2. New Canadian Open Record- Nouveau record canadien ouvert
3. Sad News / Les nouvelles tristes
4. Bids for 2002 national championships/Une demande d'hoter les championnats de 2002
5. Letter-writing campaign/Une campagne publicitaire de l'Ontario (uniquement en anglais)
Enfin/In Closing
1. VOICEPRINT PROMISES COMPLETE PARALYMPIC COVERAGE!
Toronto, September 28 - When Canada's Paralympic athletes begin their quest for gold, silver, and bronze medals Oct. 18, VoicePrint-Official Media Sponsor of the Canadian Paralympic Team will be there to capture all the excitement. During the 11-day event, ending Oct. 29, VoicePrint will broadcast nationally a daily program at Noon (repeated at 6 p.m.) ET providing all the news from the Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Each show will carry the latest results, medal standings, Paralympic history and background, interviews, profiles on the athletes and special features from "our man in Sydney" Keith Hobbs. "We're all very excited about the Paralympics," says Arlene Patterson, VoicePrint manager. "With VoicePrint receiving media accreditation, we will be on top of the Games like never before. We are the only national broadcaster who will be carrying daily results from Sydney. That alone makes it very special."
The Sydney Paralympics will be the second-largest sporting event held this year in the world. With 134 countries and 4000 athletes competing (of which Canada has 162 athletes), these Paralympic Games promise many memories and medals.
VoicePrint is encouraging companies and corporations who want to record a special message of good wishes to our athletes to call us at 1-800-567-6755. The proceeds raised from these messages will help offset the costs incurred by the charity.
VoicePrint, a division of NBRS, is Canada's free 24-hour audio newsstand. It is available via cable TV and/or Cable FM in 6.4 million households. For information on how to get VoicePrint, call 1-800-567-6755.
2000 Paralympic Team list is attached and available on CPC website
2. New Canadian Open Record- Nouveau record canadien ouvert
Senior man BH limited- sénior homme chasseur limité: Dave Jones, Quesnel ,BC in a Canadian 1200 round with a score of 276 at 60 meters, 283 at 50 meters and a total of 1081. 2000-09-03.
Master woman compound-maître femme arc démultiplié: Lynne Durward, Salt Spring Island, BC in a FITA Star 1440 with a score of 338 at 60 meters and a total of 1314. 2000-09-16.
******* A reminder - Un rappel***********
Depuis le 30 septembre 2000, pour la saison intérieure, pour les CUB arc démultiplié, c'est le petit 10 qui compte.
As of September 30th 2000, for the indoor season, for Cub Compound, the inner 10 ring counts. (FCA rule 8.6.0)
Félicitations - Congratulations
Christiane Murphy
Gestionnaire des records canadiens/Canadian Records Coordinator
Fax : (418) 622-7611
3. Sad News / Les nouvelles tristes
Sadly, word was received today that Margaret Klann, the Mother of the NAA College Division, passed away on Sept. 22. Margaret had been in a nursing home for several years battling Alzeimer. She was 88 years old. People may contact Larry, her cousin, with special remembrances of her. You can reach him as follows: Email: or phone: 480-966-5394 X1785.
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Malheureusement, Mme. Margaret Klann, qui a lance les programmes de tir a l'arc au niveau des colleges americains, est morte le 22 septembre. Elle a ete 88 ans. Depuis quelques annees, elle demeure dans une maison de retraite se bataillant l'Alzeimer. Si vous voulez envoyer des condoleances, contactez son cousin, Larry par courriel: ou par telephone:
480-966-5394 X1785.
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4. Bids for 2002 national championships/Une demande d'hoter les championnats de 2002
On behalf of the Board of Directors, the FCA Executive Committee is seeking hosting bids for the following national championships. / Au nom du comite des directeurs provinciaux, le comite executif de la FCA recherche des candidats pour la tenue des championnats suivantes:
2002 national target & field championships/les championnats sur cible fixe/sur compagne de 2002
2002 3D championships/championnats sur cible animaliere de 2002
Please send submissions, with provincial association approval to / Envoyez les soumissions avec l'approbation de votre federation provinciale a:
FCA
c/o President Al Wills
5. Letter-writing campaign/Une campagne publicitaire de l'Ontario (uniquement en anglais)
(Editor: Please note that the FCA Executive wishes to let its members decide whether or not they wish to participate in this effort. / Ed: Veuillez noter que le comite executif veulent laisser de chaque membre individuel(le) de la FCA le decision d'ecrire cette lettre ci-dessous.)
To all friends of Canadian Sport
The Sport Alliance of Ontario normally confines itself to commenting on issues in sport that fall within the Province of Ontario. However the disappointment suffered by our Canadian Olympic athletes in Sydney emphasizes that there are serious problems in the structure and funding of sport from top to bottom of the system. If Canada is to once again become the first-rate sporting nation that so many of our fellow Canadians wish it to be, then immediate steps must be taken.
The answers to the questions posed by Sydney are not simple and we do not wish to make them appear simpler than they are. However it is quite clear that there must be a renewed and greater commitment to both new leadership and new resources at the Federal level. Already mixed signals
about this are coming from Ottawa. At the same time, a federal election in the next two months is looking more and more likely.
There will never be a better time than now for those of us who care passionately about the fate of amateur sport in Canada to make our views known to our Federal political leaders. Fresh from the disappointment of Sydney, committed to a 2008 Olympic bid, and with a Federal election
looming, we believe that they will be responsive to a letter-writing campaign from the grass roots of our province.
We have written the following letter to Prime Minister Chrétien, to be copied to Heritage Minister Copps, Sport Minister Coderre, and eyeryone‚s local Federal MP. We ask and urge everyone who receives this to cut and paste the letter and e-mail it to our political leaders. Pass it to your clubs, membership and friends and ask THEM to do the same. Post it to your websites, print it in your newsletters. Let us show the Government of Canada and all Federal political parties that Canadians
really DO care about our amateur athletes.
Rolf Lund
Chair
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The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, P.C., M.P.
Prime Minister of Canada,
House of Commons,
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Dear Mr. Chrétien,
As a taxpayer and Canadian I am concerned that we are not doing enough to support our Olympic athletes.
Although I understand that cost-cutting measures at all levels of Government have been necessary in the past few years, I also firmly believe that we cannot ask our athletes to carry our pride, our flag and our hopes to an Olympic Games without giving them the support that they need to fulfill those hopes. Our Olympic athletes subsist on an average income of $15,000 a year from all sources. They have heavy travel and training expenses to meet, and too often the support they receive in terms of coaching and sport-technical assistance is simply inadequate because the resources are not there at any level of the system.
It may be true that the medal count is not the only measure of performance. But no young person sets his or her sights on an amateur athletic career without a dream of Olympic triumph, and no Canadian Olympic team goes abroad without carrying the hopes of Canadians that we will hear our anthem played and see those young people standing proud on the podium.
Your Government has pledged to support Toronto‚s bid for the 2008 Olympics. Canada has already hosted two Olympics and been the only host nation never to win a gold medal at our own Games. It takes many years to prepare an Olympic competitor. Unless our athletes, coaches and volunteer structures receive a serious degree of increased support almost immediately we will be in danger of setting a new record of three Games at home without a gold.
I ask you as leader of our Government to undertake a pledge of renewed and increased support for the young people who are the pride of our nation and the inspiration for our youth.
Yours sincerely,
<your name/and address>
Cc: The Hon. Sheila Copps, P.C., M.P.,
Minister of Canadian Heritage,
House of Commons,
Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0A6
The Hon. Denis Coderre,
Secretary of State, Amateur Sport,
Minister of Canadian Heritage,
House of Commons,
Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0A6
The Hon. Paul Martin, P.C., M.P.,
Minister of Finance
Prime Minister of Canada,
House of Commons,
Parliament Buildings
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Enfin/In Closing
The office will be closed for Thanksgiving Monday. Have a safe and happy holiday. I'm off to Windsor to lead a level 2 technical clinic.
Le bureau sera ferme le lundi prochain, le jour de l'action de graces. Amusez-vous bien et soyez prudent. Je donne une stage du niveau 2 a Windsor ce weekend.
Oct 10, 11, 12, 13 08:00 - 16:00 EDT/HdL
See you next week/A la prochaine!
Kathy Millar
FCA Executive Director/Directrice Executive de la FCA
760 rue Belfast Road, Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5