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Back-to-back wins in Communities In Bloom and WinterLights gives Kamloops bragging rights as one of the best all-around destinations in Canada, the committee’s co-chair said Monday.Kamloops Daily News, March 9.
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For the first time, new study by University of California Irvine researchers has compared the amount of greenhouse gases absorbed by ornamental turfgrass to the amount emitted in the irrigation, fertilizing and mowing of the same plots. In four parks near Irvine, researchers calculated that emissions were similar to or greater than the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the air through photosynthesis.Greenspace, Feb 19.
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Canada's elite summer and winter athletes got gold in Thursday's federal budget - an extra $17 million a year for the next two years. That's on top of the $47 million the government already spends each year on their programs. The Own the Podium organization, which helps fund winter Olympians, will see its core annual federal funding doubled to $22 million. Road to Excellence, which supports summer athletes, will see another $6 million annually tacked on to its current federal contribution of $36 million.March 4, 2010 |Jennifer Ditchburn, The Free Press.
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Submission Deadline: March 17, 2010. CAAWS is seeking opportunities to collaborate with eight communities across Canada interested in developing and delivering a physical activity program and/or sport initiative for mothers of low socioeconomic status (LSES) that fully integrates a healthy eating and/or nutrition for sport component. Each program must be a minimum of 8 weeks with the ultimate goal of promoting the importance of healthy, active living. Programs must begin before June 1, 2010. Each community will receive $2,000 in program support which can be used for equipment, resources, promotion of programs and/or events, childcare services, or transportation costs for LSES mothers. Application forms and more details can be found here: http://www.caaws.ca/mothersinmotion/e/lowstatus/grants.cfm
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Venue will also host development and public program; complement Calgary sliding track WHISTLER, BC, Feb. 27 /CNW/ - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), the Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL) and the Fédération Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing (FIBT) today confirmed post-Games plans for The Whistler Sliding Centre, Olympic competition venue for luge, skeleton and bobsleigh. Top ranking Canadian sliding athletes in bobsleigh, skeleton, and luge gathered this morning at the Whistler Media Centre to express their support of Canada's sliding sport facilities. "I cannot express how proud I am to have won gold on our home track," said Heather Moyse, 2010 Olympic gold medallist in women's bobsleigh. "I'm very excited for future Canadian athletes to have the opportunity to train and compete at a world-class facility like The Whistler Sliding Centre." After the last four-man bobsleigh goes down the track this afternoon, the venue will begin its transition from Olympic mode into its post-Games legacy operations. Transition will take place June 1, after Games-time loadout. Headed by the Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies group, the venue will complement the sliding track at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, as a lasting legacy in the training of the Canadian national luge, bobsled and skeleton teams, as well as young aspiring sliding athletes through its junior programs and public initiatives. "Ever since the bid, the goal for The Whistler Sliding Centre has been to thrive as a legacy for sliding sports post Games," said Cathy Priestner Allinger, VANOC's executive vice president, sport and Games operations. "Having two sliding tracks in Canada, and now four in North America, is extremely important in growing these sports at home and abroad. We're proud of the key role this venue has played in pre-Games training and competition, its Games time use, and we're confident The Whistler Sliding Center will continue to flourish for years to come." "For the Canadian team, the best way to grow in the sliding sports is to train as much as possible, on tracks that will test the sliders' skills and athleticism," said Jeff Christie, a Canadian luge athlete. "Having two tracks in Canada now, and with the technical nature of The Whistler Sliding Centre, I am extremely optimistic about the future of Canadian sliding, and the growth of the sliding sports here in Canada, North America, and ultimately the world." The Whistler Sliding Centre will also continue to host the world's top athletes at international competitions. Both international sporting federations are planning world cup competitions in Whistler after 2010. "The Whistler Sliding Centre will be one of the classic tracks on the FIBT World Cup circuit," said FIBT president Robert Storey. "The FIBT fully intends to have annual world cups in Whistler along with development programs and junior circuit races in both bobsleigh and skeleton." Along with future international events in bobsleigh and skeleton, the FIL will also utilize the venue for luge training programs and world-class events. While looking ahead to the future of luge at The Whistler Sliding Centre, the federation continues to mourn the loss of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian luger who died on February 12 after an accident during a training run. "We will never forget the tragic loss of Nodar Kumaritashvili, and our thoughts continue to be with his friends, family and the sliding community," said Svein Romstad, FIL's secretary general. "I cannot think of a better way to honour Nodar's spirit than to ensure that athletes of all ages and skill sets utilize The Whistler Sliding Centre and grow the sport of luge. The future of this track is bright and the FIL will continue to work closely with the FIBT, the Canadian Luge Association and Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies to foster a movement of sport that the world will be proud of." In addition to hosting high-performance athletes, The Whistler Sliding Centre will continue with several innovative grassroots programs in the community to grow future athletes and fans of the sliding sports. Since its inception, The Whistler Sliding Centre has hosted luge, skeleton and bobsleigh development programs, venue tours and passenger ride testing. These initiatives will continue when the venue begins its legacy phase. British Columbia Luge Association (BCLA) Program:
10 local children, aged eight- to 14-years-old, slide three to four times per week
1,237 runs were taken by the participants, including three British Columbia Cup races and one NorAm youth race.
The program also included seven on-ice recruitment camps, totalling 522 runs.
British Columbia Bobsleigh Skeleton Association (BCBSA) Program
With 148 runs taken, including a driving school and five "Discover Skeleton" sessions (totalling 127 runs), the BCBSA Program introduced children to the sports of bobsleigh and skeleton.
Public Tours
The Whistler Sliding Centre has hosted 2,500 public guided tours in the summer months, 6,500 public visits to the track during the winter months and a total of 35,000 public visits through tours and events in total.
Bobsleigh Passenger Ride Testing
To begin testing the logistics of sending spectators down the track, the venue has run eight sessions of 41 sleds in total, whereby passengers were able to experience the exhilaration sliding athletes feel when manoeuvring the track.
Similar to Calgary Olympic Park's passenger program, The Whistler Sliding Centre will host spectator rides post-Games through the Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies Society.
"We look forward to a vibrant future at the sliding centre in which high-performance athletes, young developing athletes, recreational sliders, and tourists all benefit from time spent on the ice of this exciting new sport facility," said Keith Bennett, president and CEO of Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies Society. "The opportunity to help develop generations of future Olympic competitors and medallists lies ahead." Background on The Whistler Sliding Centre The Whistler Sliding Center's inaugural season of operations in 2007/2008 included 335 bobsled runs and 743 skeleton runs. In the 2008/2009 season, there were 2,153 bobsled runs and 3,290 skeleton runs on the track and in 2009/2010 to date there have been 5,336 bobsled and skeleton runs combined. In 2009, two international training weeks and one world cup event were held, hosting on average 17 nations (skeleton), 17 nations (men's bobsled) and 13 nations (women's bobsled). Leading up to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, 30,477 runs were taken when combining all three sports. About Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies Whistler 2010 Sport Legacies (WSL2010) is a not-for-profit society that will own and operate three 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games venues after the conclusion of the Games - Whistler Olympic Park, The Whistler Sliding Centre and the Whistler Athletes' Centre. The organization's mission is to operate its Olympic legacy venues to advance high performance sport development and recreational sport participation, in a manner that ensures economic, environmental and social sustainability.
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Deadline to submit an Expression of Interest: April 12, 2010 If you want to build a stronger community through sport by increasing opportunities for children and youth to play sports* in your community, the True Sport Community Fund can help. Focusing on communities in Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, the True Sport Community Fund is a four year $1.89 million community investment program that provides opportunities for Canadian communities to access funds for sport programs for low income, Aboriginal and new Canadian families. True Sport and The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation believe in the power of sport to connect communities. We also believe that people like you want to make it as simple as possible for children and youth to participate. That’s why we’ve partnered to create the True Sport Community Fund; which will help communities promote inclusion and increase access to sport programs for children and youth, aged four to seventeen. Over the next year, communities will benefit from grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. * Please refer to the Fund Guidelines at www.truesport.ca/tsfund for a definition of sport eligibility.
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Guelph, ON – Members of the Sports Turf Association (STA) and the greater turfgrass industry now have access to the complete back files of the Sports Turf Manager (STM) and its predecessor the Sports Turf Newsletter through a partnership between the STA and Michigan State University’s Turfgrass Information Center (TIC). In the past, STM readers could search the cumulative index on the STA website for article citations, or subscribers to the TIC’s Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) could search for articles but would obtain only the abstract. In either case they would have to physically obtain the article themselves. Digitization provides a much more usable tool, removing the step of having to go and find a particular issue of STM, assuming readers even had access to it. Through the new online digitized archive, which can be accessed at http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/stnew/, readers can browse year-by-year or search by term to retrieve PDF files of articles. The addition of the full content of the publication is the result of the cooperation and dedication of TIC and MSU staff and students, involving more than 87 issues of the magazine, 1,300 pages of material, manually splitting nearly 1,400 PDFs, harvesting the citations for more than 400 turfgrass-related citations and linking more than 900 citations to the PDFs. As part of the ongoing cooperative project as new issues are produced materials will be scanned and made available six months following the date of publication. Sports Turf Association members continue to enjoy complete subscriber access to the Turfgrass Information File, the most comprehensive publicly available collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world, via the Michael J. Bladon Educational Link. Login to www.sportsturfassociation.com and follow the link under the “Members Only” section. The Sports Turf Association was conceived in 1987 when at a brain storming session at the University of Guelph a broad segment of the turf industry endorsed its need. Of particular concern at that meeting was the need to minimize and avoid injury to participants using athletic fields where they relate to sports turf. Two decades later the Sports Turf Association continues to promote better, safer sports turf through innovation, education and professional programs. Visit www.sportsturfassociation.com for more information or contact the STA office at 519.763.9431, info@sportsturfassociation.com. The Turfgrass Information Center, a unit of the Michigan State University Libraries, was founded in 1984 to both continue building the O. J. Noer Memorial Turfgrass Collection, and begin construction of what became the USGA Turfgrass Information File (TGIF). TGIF has since become the largest online database serving turfgrass science and management, with worldwide coverage of all sectors of the turfgrass industry. With the arrival of the James B Beard Turfgrass Library Collection in 2003, TIC also became a center for scholarship and study of turfgrass science. Since that time, additional focus on building and hosting digital archives has become a primary activity of TIC. For further information on the Center, the Noer or Beard Collections, the digital collections, or TGIF, please begin at TIC's website: http://tic.msu.edu .
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Ottawa has given the Halifax area $1.6 million to be divided among
five recreational projects, including a new indoor soccer pitch at the
Mainland Common. The Clayton Park soccer facility, expected to be open early next
year, received $1 million, the largest chunk of the federal funds that
Central Nova MP Peter MacKay announced Sunday. The announcement was made at the Dartmouth Sportsplex, which
received $320,000 to put toward a $960,000 upgrade, including new air
conditioning and heat-recovery systems, new arena boards and dressing
room improvements.
The remainder of the federal funding will go toward upgrading six
kilometres of pathways in Portland Hills in Dartmouth ($200,000),
building a new four-season multi-purpose room at the Big Cove YMCA Camp
($32,000) and refurbishing the clubhouse at Banook Canoe Club ($26,667). The funding is through the Recreational Infrastructure Canada Program.Pat Lee, The Chronicle Herald, Feb 22.
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The PACE-Fitness-Study is a science project initiated by the Institute for Physiology and Anatomy of the German Sport University Cologne. It’s aim is the analysis of performance in toplevel athletes and leisure time athletes alike. In a first step, anonymous, endurance related race results have been collected. In a second step, information about training and competition as well as life-style factors are being collected using an online questionnaire. This information is then used to analyze the connections between performance, training volume and -intensity, lifestyle and motivation for sports participation in a physically active population from all age groups and levels of performance.
Online-questionnaire tailored for multiple sport s: cover ing lifestyle, training and competit ive habits :www.dshs-koeln.de/pace
Calculate interesting information like your daily energy expenditure, BMI or heart rates for training - based on your individual data
Runner s: Compare your individual race result s with those of thousands of other runner s from your age-segment
Exclusive result s from more than 400.000 Marathon and Half- Marathon finishers.
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Adherence to sustainability goals generates early results: report VANCOUVER, Feb. 10 /CNW/ - The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games may officially start on Friday but seven years of sustainability efforts have already started to pay off, with a carbon neutral Organizing Committee, torch relay and athletes, 62 Games-related sustainability innovations and 200 at-risk youth and new Canadians trained in a community-based carpentry program. These are just a few of the examples of sustainable legacies from the Games contained in the fourth annual corporate Vancouver 2010 Sustainability Report released today by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). The report, which covers VANOC's performance against its sustainability commitments between August 1, 2008 and July 31, 2009, is available online at: www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/sustainability/reports-and-resources/sustainability-report/. "By making sustainability central to everything we do, and in collaboration with our partners, sponsors and community organizations, we have forged a new level of sustainability performance for the Olympic and Paralympic Games," said VANOC Chief Executive Officer John Furlong. "This report addresses each of our sustainability commitments, our short- and long-term goals and what we've done to meet them." The report examines VANOC's performance on environmental, social and economic bid commitments and early legacies as the first athletes arrive to compete. Examples include:
Since 2003, Aboriginal businesses have received $56.7 million in contracts with VANOC; $5.9 million in this reporting period alone
$56,460 contributed to the 2010 Aboriginal Youth Legacy Fund through the sale of official licensed merchandise
$3 million to date spent on services and products from inner-city businesses or organizations in Vancouver; 1.2 million in this reporting period alone with 15 enterprises
The most ambitious carbon management program to date for an Olympic or Paralympic Games with the aim of raising the bar on how sport events manage their climate impacts
15 per cent reduction in carbon footprint of the Games due to energy efficiency and clean technologies
Partnered with Offsetters making the 2010 Winter Games the first in Games history to have an Official Supplier of Carbon Offsets
45,000-kilometre carbon neutral torch relay
100 per cent carbon neutral athletes participating in the Games
85 audits of 2010 merchandise licensees conducted to ensure they comply with relevant legal requirements, respect the rights of workers and protect the environment
257 out of 257 suppliers met Canadian human rights standards
Contracted 96 Aboriginal artists from across Canada to produce permanent installations as part of the Venues' Aboriginal Art Program
50,000 tickets distributed through the Celebrate 2010 program to 300 community organizations in Metro Vancouver, Sea to Sky region and Canada for those who would not otherwise be able to afford to attend the Games
200 trainees, which included at-risk youth and new Canadians, developed carpentry skills at the RONA Vancouver 2010 Fabrication Shop in Vancouver's inner city to help them enter the workforce
62 Games-related sustainability innovations by VANOC partners and sponsors recognized by the Vancouver 2010 Sustainability Star Program
1,800 bouquets for Vancouver 2010 Victory Ceremonies made by marginalized women, who may be recovering from addiction, leaving prison, exiting the sex trade, or who have been victims of violence, as well as by other women they train with who are changing careers to become florists
100 per cent of all Games venues and facilities reviewed for accessibility
Eight multi-purpose sport venues and two athletes' villages targeting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver or better (two already certified to a gold level)
The report reflects input from the general public; non-governmental organizations specializing in the inner city, the environment, sustainability, disability issues, and labour and human rights issues; and VANOC's own staff. VANOC's key performance measures have been assured for accuracy by a third party. "Having started early with our planning and engaging early with our partners, sponsors, and local communities, these reports have helped to gauge our progress along the way. It is exciting to see the years of work starting to pay off even before the athletes begin to compete," said Ann Duffy, VANOC's corporate sustainability officer. VANOC will continue to track and report on sustainability performance through the Games period and initial dissolution phase (April 30, 2010). The fifth and final sustainability report will include final steps taken, including: Games-time public participation and engagement initiatives, legacies and transfer of knowledge activities. To measure its performance, the organizing committee uses the sustainability reporting guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI is an internationally established standard for corporate reporting on an organization's economic, social and environmental performance. It is aligned with several worldwide sustainability initiatives, is used by leading corporations in the private sector and is recognized by the United Nations. Two versions of the report are available: a shorter "snapshot" version for readers interested in a summary and a longer, more technical version for those who want more detail. Both versions are available at: www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/sustainability/reports-and-resources/sustainability-report
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