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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
NVSS X-Country Runners Make History On November 2nd, sixteen of the best runners from Nechako Valley Secondary school took part in the 43rd annual BC High School XCountry Championships at Aldergrove Lake Park in Langley. The weather was terrible in Langley, with 50 to 80 millimetres of rain that fell during the four championship races. First, the girls’ team ran 4.3 kilometres and placed fifth overall making it the fourth time in the past five years that they have placed in the top six overall at the provincial level. Which made history for NVSS said coach Brian Nemethy. On the girls’ team: Cierra, Kaitlyn and Georgia Verduzco, Julia Steinebach, Alison Desmarais, Bridian James-Schneider, Anika Wallace and Taryn Stephen. “This is a huge accomplishment for a small school such as NVSS,” said Ne-
methy. “My girls have to compete against school populations of 1,200 or more students and to have a team of girls run almost as fast as the teams in front of them, just shows what a small school can do if the right team dynamics are in place.” Anika led the way for the girls and placed 74th out of about 250 girls. Julia placed 75, Georgia was 92, Kaitlyn was 98, Alison was 110, Cierra was 147, Bridian was 179 and Taryn was 172 in the Junior race. The girls placed fourth in 2009, sixth in 2010, fourth in 2011 and now fifth in 2013. As for the boys team, they were 19 last year and made it to 13 this year, most of the scores were very tight though. Alexander Nemethy placed 20 overall. Charlie Borek placed 78, Kelton McKee was 127, Jonathan Mueller was 172, Patrick Harraway was 173, Kyler
The NVSS girls cross-country team wore garbage bags to fight the downpour in Langley. Coach Nemethy said to embrace the rain though, there was going to be no way to avoid getting wet. Photo by Wallace Studios
Boucher was 198 and Tristal Buller was 223. Linus Jia ran the Junior race and placed 201.
“Overall it was a fantastic effort made by all members at the Championship race. They stepped up to the line
and gave their best,” said Nemethy. “What more could a coach ask for. I was very proud of them all.”
Pool designs coming Sam Redding Omineca Express Vanderhoof representatives were in Vancouver on October 31 for a tour of aquatic facilities similar to Vanderhoof’s future swimming pool. Councillor Steve Little and Chief Administration Officer Evan Parliament toured three facilities with architect Bruce Carscad-
den who will be in Vanderhoof on November 18 to unveil new designs. “We also toured a YMCA facility which provided some interesting revenue streams in terms of other programs that we can incorporate with the pool,” said Parliament. “The YMCA offers all kinds of things from daycare service to children programs to adult learning, everything that they stand for, they bundle and put in one facility, including a swimming pool. So we looked at
that operation in terms of an alternative service delivery model on how to run a pool facility.” They also had an opportunity to receive input from the architect and the City of Vancouver to discuss whether the pool should have four lanes or six, how deep should it be, how much spectator space, how much meeting room space and hot tub space. “The City of Vancouver suggested that we focus on more leisure play space and
go horizontal not vertical,” said Parliament. “Meaning don’t build a deep tank that services only a small population, go horizontal and increase space for seniors and kids where all the cross-sections of society can play.” Other comments were on whether to provide space for training exercises such as scuba diving. All of these things will be presented to council on the 18 of November.
Christmas by Kids Also featuring Children’s Stories, Pictures, Christmas Articles, Letters to Santa & more in the December 11, 2013 issue of the Omineca Express & the Caledonia Courier. Call us at 250-567-9258 for more information