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ORIENTEERING CANADA

The Official Newsletter of the Canadian Orienteering Federation

355 River Road, Vanier, Ont.

VOL. 7 FO. 4 1c7C

CONTENTS

President's Niche 2 Letters to the Editor 3 C.O.F. Drops 4 What is C 0 F ? 6 1980 Canadian Championships 8 Ski-0 in Ottawa 9 Committee Reports 10 Competitor Ranking Scheme 12 Manitoba Championships 15 1979 Provincial Champions 16 Nova Scotia AGM 19 New Brunswick News 20 O'Ringen - What's That? 22 O'Ringen 1980 24 Blue Lake Clinic 2( Pow To BE AN Orienteer 28 Support For Australia? 30

Orienteering Canada is published in Ottawa with the assistance of the National Sport and Recreation Administration Centre.

Editor : Cord Punter Typist : Lee Leger Contributors: Marg James, Colin Kirk, Juni Peepre, Glen Davis, Pat Lee, Kristina Kaill, Andy Wallenius, Gail Fancy, Sheila Andrew

STAY ON TOP

OF WINTER

PRESIDENT' S NICHE

A new year is upon us and plans are well under way for the various activities we hope will take place at the National Level in 1980. A dedicated group of orienteers met in Ottawa, November 17-18, 1979 for the 12th Annual General Meeting of the COF-at least one delegate was present from each member provincial association. At this time the plans set forth by the Planning Committee of C.O.F. were pretty well adopted and budget sub-missions made to the Federal Government for assistance. Our Executive Director indicated to us that Fitness and Amateur Sport is suggesting that each sport receiving Federal funding must raise a minimum of 10% of their own funds. So provinces should bear in mind the need to support the National Body in its efforts to raise funds nationally, so that such projects as Instructor Clinics, National and Regional Training Camps can be supported and travel money for athletes to the Canadian Championships, etc.

We are, again, applying for funds to support a Technical Director. The AGM delegates gave their support to a bid for the World

Orienteering Championships of 1985. This bid will be formally presented in July 1980 at the International Congress. If Canada does receive the right to hold the 1st Champion-ship outside Europe, a Technical Director will become a must.

On a personal note, I have been pleased to be your President for the past three years. It has gone by quickly. I thank you for the confidence you have put in me for one final year!

Happy New Year and Happy Orienteering!

Marg James

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Fitness. In your heart you know it's right.

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LETTERS

Dear Editor:

I usually try to praise Orient-eering officials, since theirs is often a thankless task, but there are a couple of areas I think improvements can be made.

Our course-setters are not providing challenging enough courses for our old-timers. The D43, HSO, D50 and H56 tend to be sent out on orange and yellow courses which are actually begin-ner's courses. Their courses, while kept relatively short, should have controls and route choices as challenging as the longer courses. If the seniors don't find the courses interesting we'll lose them.

Also for course setters. Don't use two different last controls unless its really necessary. The last control is usually a gift anyway with only the route choice of importance. If two last controls must be used, then have completely different letters on them. For example AA and XX, not an AN and AV. A folded N can look like a V and so on. While an experienced orienteer should

check the letters carefully, a beginner may be careless and end up spoiling his day.

Sincerely,

Keith French

British Pen Pals Dear Editor:

We are two friends who are keen orienteers who would like to write to other orienteers from anywhere in Canada. We do not mind whether they are boy penpals or girl pen-pals. Please could you help us? We are:

Liz Phillips, 30 Hampden Way, Rugbi, Warwickshire, CU22 7NW. Likes and hobbies: Orienteering, Abba, Brotherhood of Man, Dooleys, cats and writing letters. Age 15.

Sue Lane, 36 Norman Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CU21 1DW. Likes and hobbies: Orienteering, Abba, Brotherhood of Man, Dooleys, Elvis Presley, animals, discos, most sports, writing letters, and lots more other things. Age 15.

We would be very grateful if you could help in finding English speaking penpals.

Yours sincerely,

Sue Lane.

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Training Day will be organized by M 0.C. on Friday - August 15. The 1980 Canadian Championships will be held near Lachute on August 16 - 17

This gives a total of 6 days of Competition plus 1 day of train-ing in the eight-day period August 10-17

4. A recent visitor to Canada was John Colls, Vice Chairman of the British Orienteering Federation. John visited Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver during his visit. The reason for the trip is that John is planning to emigrate to Canada in the spring of 1980 with Calgary or Vancouver the cities where he will most likely settle

John wasone of the British delegates at the 1979 I.O.F. Congress and is particularly interested in the technical aspects of orienteering. John is Meet Controller for the 1980 Jan Kjellstrom event to be held near Dumfries in Southern Scotland; he hopes to come to Canada soon after the Jan Kjellstrom event at Easter.

5. The Newfoundland 0.A. has put the Pippy Park map to good use since the C.O.C. Three events have been held at Pippy Park with 85 participants in one of them. Several groups of Cubs, Scouts an'!

Girl Guides and school pupils also have been introduced to orienteer-ing on the Pippy Park map.

6. Mappers please note: The COF office has just received a quantity of Map Symbol Letraset sheets from British O. Federation. Several provincial associations and mappers have been writing to obtain map Letraset for several months The price is $7.50 per sheet(postage included).

7. For those planning to travel to Europe this summer in order to compete in some of the major orient-eering competitions, the COF office has received preliminary details and meet announcements for several of the more popular events. 1. The Swedish 5-Days (July 21-25). 2. The Swiss 5-Days (July 9-13) 3. The World Student Champs.-Switzerland (July 14-19). 4. The 3-Day French International (July 3-5). 5. The Jan Kjellstrom event-Scotland(Apr.4 -7). 6. Pacific O. Carnival-Australia (Apr. 5-13). 7. Danish 3-Day event (July 18-20). Anyone interested, can obtain copies of these meet announcements from the COF office.

LAST MINUTE FLASH -- Orienteering Canada editor, Gord Hunter of the Ottawa O. Club and National Team member will be running as the Liberal candidate for the Ottawa-Ilepean riding in the Federal Election February 18, 1980.

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WHAT IS THE COX.?

What is the Canadian Orienteering Federation? How is it structured and how are decisions made? How do provinces and individuals benefit?

Almost twelve years after its formation, the Canadian Orien-teering Federation is still re-garded by some as a fog-shrouded orienteering bureaucracy, with no evident purpose or equitable means of decision-making. In fact, of course, the COF is vital to orienteering in Canada, for it has opened lines of continental communication, and supported such programs as mapping, national and regional leadership and comp-etitor development clinics, the Canadian Championships, partici-pation in international competi-ti'm, and a fvarterly iournal, to mention a few.

The purpose of this article is not to describe at length all the various and sundry benefits we receive from COF - rather, its an attempt to clarify how the organ-ization works. Too often I have heard negative remarks seemingly based on a misunderstanding of the decision-making process.

The COF is fundamentally a democratic organization which depends on volunteers, with nation-al interests at heart, to develop and administer the various program3.

As the word 'federation' implies, the basis for the organization is participation by the provinces and territories. Delegates represent each association at the Annual General Meeting, where voting rights are assigned accord-ing to provincial membership numbers. The AGM is, in effect, a parliament where the policies and programs are discussed and either accepted or rejected. It is the AGM where the provincial voices are officially heard, and it is here where the democratic processe3 (such as voting, special interest grnup lnhhAring, and avan a litt1a

old-fashioned politiking!) take place.

The provincial delegates elect a board of directors consisting of president, treasurer, and three directors. The executive then internally elects two vice-presidents and a secretary. In order to preserve order and continuity in the nation, the past

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president is also a non-voting member of the executive.

The board could be regarded as something of an "0" cabinet, although it is elected, not appointed. The task of this motley group is to accept the program mandate endorsed by the AGM delegates and to act as a decision-making body in the implementation of the various programs. As the executive is elected, it is directly respon-sible to the provincial associa-tions, and in turn to the general membership.

But the real work is accomplished by the various committees, including technical, competition, education, promotion, financial, and mapping, each with a specific area of responsibility. The nnmportnnp, (nr fic, fdnmq, as some perceive them), are the source of most program ideas, and are responsible for following the priorities established by the planning committee and endorsed by the AGM. Volunteers from across the country make up the committees-it is here where any one with a particular interest can get involved. Regional representation is encouraged, although the main requirement is a willingness to contribute.

If you're confused about how all these different groups relate to

one another, and who is responsible to whom, an illustration of the yearly cycle should clarify things, at least to the level of a light mist.

As mentioned, the provincial delegates elect a board, who in turn appoint committee chairpersons. The chairperson solicits the volunteer help required to develop ideas and implement programs. During the year, the various committees meet and determine their project goals and objectives, and these in turn are evaluated by the planning committee. The planning committee, (known to advocate the science of muddling through), is composed of all the various com-mittee chairpersons-it is this group which prepares program priorities. And finally after much heated debate all the projects are ratified by the ACM.

As one can see, the decision- making process takes place a year in advance of the implementation schedule-a truly remarkable achieva-ment for a volunteer bureaucracy!

And what role does the board play during the year? The board of directors is the democratic link between the committee decisions and the general membership. Committee chairpersons are directly responsible to the executive and hence must carry through the mandate established by the AGM.

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The board, then, as the elected governing body, offers guidance and makes decisions on all matters pertaining to COF.

No analysis of COF would be com-plete without a brief look at the role of Colin Kirk, our executive director. To describe how Colin fits in would require a special Orienteering Canada issue: suffice it to say that he is responsible to the COF president, and thus administers the program established at the AGM. Ha also does pretty well everything else required to run the COF.

This article has tried to illustrate that the COF is a national body with direct demo-cratic linkages to the general membership, and that its survival and health depends on volunteers. There ls no mystery to its inner functioning, no attempt at central control beyond collecting dues and establishing a few necessary rules of the game. Certainly, there are widely divergent views on many topics, as indeed there are those with perhaps somewhat narrower views - but the sum total is an organization composed of individuals dedicated to the administrative aspects of runnin.,I through the deep dark forest with a map and compass. Hence, its not really an institution worthy of abstracted criticism, but rather, a unique collection of orienteee,ng personalities.

Jur! Peepre

1980 CHAMPION- SHIPS IN QUEBEC

This year's Canadian Crienteering Championships are to be held near Lachute, Quebec.

Montreal O.C. has announced the dates of the Meet for August 16-17. The high school in Lachute will be the competition centre and will be available for dormitory space.

The Championships will be preceded by a week of 'warm up' meets. The C.O.F. will host a two day meet on a new map near Lachute. The Azimut and Ottawa clubs will also put on races and M.O.C. will have a train-ing area open the day before the Championships.

Group social and sightseeing events are also planned for the C.O.C. week and the whole program will be advertised to European orienteers.

So, if you missed Expo 67, the S-and 6-Day Meets and/or you want to see Montreal at its Summer best plan to attend the 1980 Canadian Championships.

More information and entry forms will be available soon from the C.O.F. and your provincial office.

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SKI -O MEET IN OTTAWA

Ski Orienteering has been slow to catch on in Canada. Like Norweg-ians, we have seemed to prefer to keep the two sports separate.

This preference may change if plan3 of the Ottawa Ski Club and Ottawa Orienteering Club come off. The Ski Club has planned a series of ski orienteering events for this winter. They will include instructions, fun relays and a major competition.

The big race is the Second Annual Camp Fortune Ski-0 Open on March 1st. This meet is open to all skiers and orienteers. There will be four courses from 5 to 20 km. A new, specially prepared map will be used. Entry fees are $2 for OSC members and $5 for non members.

Entries must be received at the ski club by Feb. 19, 1980. An information package and entry ticket will be sent prior to the event. A buffet will follow the race.

The day after the orienteering race the ski club will be holding

series of ski races of up to

10 km. No pre registration is necessary for this event.

To enter or to receive more information about the Camp Fortune Ski-0, write to:

Ottawa Ski Club Old Chelsea, P.O. JOX 2N0

Attention: Ski-Orienteering

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COMMITTEE REPORTS

Promotion Committee

The Promotion Committee was formed several years ago as an off shoot of the Education Com-mittee. The main goal of the committee has been to "promote and encourage participation in Orienteering."

This is to be accomplished by developing promotional materials maintaining effective relation-ships with the media, improving 'internal' communications and ensuring continuous schedules of meets.

Some highlights of the committee's work in the past year include:

-Junior Participation Program:

This program is now in full oper-ation throughout Canada. With additional advertising in the spring, and an all out effort to familiarize participants with it, it is hoped that the program will continue to grow in popularity.

Thus far we have had participants reach the 'GREEN' level of part-icipation. This is better than we originally had estimated.

-National Poster:

The committee has given the go ahead to this project. It is now a question of funding and design. We presently have an excellent Swedish poster which the committee feels should be the basis for our poster.

-Filmstrip and Slide Presentation:

Jack Forsyth is very close to completing this project. At that time we will be able to offer Provincial Organizations and clubs an inexpensive, prepared recreation oriented slide promotion.

-Competitive Badge Program:

The committee has decided to hold off on this program until the 1980 season. The reason for this is that it will be based on the National Ranking System which will come into being in the 1980 season.

Committee Chairman, Charlie Fox, in his report to the Annual Meet-ing, stressed the need for COF to look to 'new horizons' for project funding. "This year has seen Silva question for the first time, the value of their continued support

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of the COF. Therefore, it is necessary that a sincere effort b2 made to search out and uncover new sponsors."

Charlie is retiring from the Promotion Committee this year. The COF can hope that the drive and direction he gave the com-mittee will be continued by his successor.

Education Committee

The big news from the Education Committee is that the long awaited Level I Coaching Manual is soon to be printed.

Nearly ready several times in the past three years the manual was always 'stillborn'. It under-went a major revision at the hands of Jim Gilchrist and Jack Lee last spring.

The Coaching Manual and its instructor's supplement need only the final approval of the provincial '0' associations and the Coaching Association of Canada which is to fund their printing.

The Education Committee has asked Sport Canada for a grant to hold a national clinic to train instr-uctors for the Level I program. This clinic would be held in Quebec in August and would be open to two delegates from each province.

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The Education Committee is also planning a Teaching Resource Inventory and a research project on Orienteering.

They will also be working on translating good Orienteering teaching aids from French to English and vice-versa.

Anne Anthony of British Columbia is Chairman of the Education Committee.

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RANKING SCHEME INTRODUCED

The National Ranking Scheme.... What is it? How does it work... How is it going to be used? These were a few of the questions addressed to the Competition Committee at the recent C.O.F. Annual General Meeting held in Ottawa.

1. What is it?

As far back as 1977, members of various competition committees have considered possible methods to evaluate and rank Canada's orienteering athletes in junior and senior categories. Consider that the majority of Tier I and II countries currently employ some form of performance evaluation system. Consider too, that the C.O.F. committees sometimes have to make somewhat subjective decisions concerning athlete attendance to selection races, eligibility for student grants-in-aid, travel to international meets, etc. Thus the Competition Committee implemented a proposed national ranking system in 1979, strictly as a "trial year" with the results being unofficial. Gillian Bailey (Ontario member of C.C.) undertook to calculate the results for this year.

2. How does it work?

Competitors must have run in their elite age class to be eliFible for awarding of points for a given competition. Points were awarded for:

(a) I.O.F. Events;

(b) the Canadian Championships;

(c) Provincial and/or Regional Championships, and;

(d) all certified 'A' meets (including all U.S. 'A' meets.)

Only C.O.F. members were included and all competitors in H21, D20, H19-20 and D17-19 were ranked during the 1979 season. Every competitor finishing within 1007 of the winner's time received point:- Assessment was based on a continu-ally "rolling" 12 months and obtained for each athlete's five best qualifying events. However, one of these five events must have been one day of the Canadian Championships. In multi-day events each day was counted separately for ranking purposes. Only those meet results filed with the national office or Gillian Bailey

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were used for calculating points, but provincial associations, clubs meet directors or individuals could all forward results for inclusion if those meets met the standards outlined above. Points were awarded for results achieved in four 'classes' of meets: I.O.F. events, Canadian Champion-ships, Provincial and Regional Championships and 'A' meets. In future years the full ranking list for each class will be published on April 15. Current top rankings will be published on July 15 and November 15.

3. How is it going to be used?

Once the ranking scheme becomes effective, a number of possible uses can be envisaged. It has already been proposed to use the ranking lists for the selection of worthy athletes to the 1981 Nation Team Selection Races (in Alberta). The scheme may also be used in determining eligibility for studen grants-in-aid and selection for some international meets. It may be possible that the Technical Committee can use the results for

MEET CLASS POINTS AWARDED MAXIMUM POINTS

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Canadian Champs. P = 200 - 100t 2 100

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Provincial or Regional Champs. P = 140 - 70t 2

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quality control and certification of meets. Certainly the scheme will be used to select individuals to attend national training camps. However, it must be emphasised that the ranking system should never become the one and only determinant for selection to these activities since inequal-ities in geography and population will always exist. Rather, it is a tool to assist the national coach and/or C.O.F. committees in these decisions.

4. And now for a few problems...

Some of the inequalities outlined above soon became apparent during this past year. In mentioning them, I hope to generate feedback from members of the orienteering community prior to the Competition Committee's next meeting in January when modifications to the Ranking Scheme will be discussed.

i) The task of calculation of these results by hand is monu-mental! Gillian Bailey deserves accolades for her job of doing this in 1979. An obvious solution is a computer generated program. However, writing this program could be quite complex.

ii) Tle reporting of meet results is also a problem. Ideally, in 1 080 meet organizers for provincial associations) will

send results to me quickly allowing more frequent ranking lists to be generated. I would prefer if individual athletes would only Lend results relating to their overse.s I.O.F. events.

iii) A significant problem is the tendency for juniors to compete one or two classes above their own age categories. I have mixed feelings about this problem While juniors need to be occasionally challenged by superior difficulty courses, assigning ranking points can be difficult. I can see several possible solutions to this situation, none of which are completely satisfactory.

I would like to conclude by again inviting discussion on the National Ranking Scheme and especially the four problems I have outlined. In 1980 I will have the responsibility of keeping the Ranking Lists ' current' so results, comments, etc. should be addressed to me:

-Glen M. Davis 59 Kendal Ave. Toronto, Ontario M5R 1L8

N.B. The comments and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and may not represent competition committee policy.

-G.M.D.-

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MANITOBA CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Manitoba Championships were held on Sunday, Oct. 14 at Ernest Thompson Seton Park near Carberry, 100 miles west of Winnipeg. The park was named after the well knownnaturalist who spent many years in the Carberry area. This was the setting for his book, The Trail of the Sandhill Stag.

The terrain used contained many small hills bisected by two creeks and with many depressions inside depressions (a typically western feature.) There were many cattle in the area but they caused no problems except for the footing.

The men's and women's elite courses proved to be tight races. Morden t s Sheldon Friesen won the men's top honours by beating Ralph Oliver of Carberry by 54 seconds. Jack Forsyth of Hartney was a close third.

Eva Rosinger of Pinawa, the perennial women's champion retained her title for the 5th consecutive year. But this year Brenda Birks of Winnipeg gave Eva some anxious moments. Brenda trailed by only 56 seconds. Marion Loewen, also of Winnipeg, was third.

1979 PROVINCI rovA SCOTIA P.E.I. NEW BRUNSWICK QUEBEC

P 12 Peter Mason Kevin Downe Mike McNaugtt Ptilip Punter Streakers Foxes Ottawa

P 14 Oivind Naess Greg Collins Mike Knapp Tracker Foxes

P 16 Gra;-aro Kendall aris Robert Poppers Ottawa

H 18 Ron Levesque Glen Geddes C. de Bois Toronto

H 20 Peter Jennegren Dana Sanderson Julien Marceau Andy de St Croix Hustlers C. de Bois Niagara

H 21 Bob Smia Clint Evans Ted De St Croix Hustlers Niagara

H 35 Cameron Bigelow Stig Skarblom Matti Karkas SISU

P 43 Arne Naess Irwin Landauer Mike Day Tracker C. de Bois Ottawa

H 50 Jim Plant N.E.O.C.

H 56 Gosta Edwardsson Viking

D 12 Debbie Poops Eliz. McNally Susan Andrew Barbara Weiler Hustlers Foxes Viking

D 14 Pam James Caroline Rogers Maria Paisley Claudia Weiler Hustlers Foxes Viking

D 16 Kristy MacKinnon Elisa Reitzsctel Hoppers Viking

D 18 Cteryl Snair Judy Andrew Peatter Budge Hoppers Foxes Toronto

D 21 Susan Hoyle Irene Gartt Carol Ann Breau Susan Budge Tracker Batturst Toronto

D 35 Marg James Steila Andrew Rena Weiler Hustlers Foxes Viking

D 43 Ann-K Naess Denyse Reitzscl- el Tracker Viking

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kL CHAMPIONS ONTARIO MANITOBA ALBERTA BRITISH COLUMBIA

P 12* Philip Punter

Steven Phillips Martin Pardoe Marc Liardon

Hartney P 14

Mike Waddington Keith Forsyth Tim Kelba

Brian No Hing Hartney Jumping Pound

John Downing H 16 Luc Savoie Russ Kilbourn John Crowley

Chris Robert Riel Kangaroos

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H 18 Mike Day Ottawa

H 20 Mark Adams Viking

H 21 Ron Lowry H .K.F.

H 35 Jack Geddes Toronto

H 43 Don Budge Toronto

H 50 Dick de St Cr Niagara

Ed Houck Terry Reeves Eric Gaarder Hartney North Shore Sheldon Friesen Alistair Mooney Scott Robertson Morden Foothills Kangaroos

Otto Loesel Otto Loesel Overlanders Overlanders

John Holden Charles Davies Winnipeg Kangaroos

D 12 Sandra Evans Niagara Faura Jussila

D 14 Vicki Russell

D 16 Rachel Field Tina Evans

Kristen Forsyth Sheri Archibald Hartney Kangaroos Chris Yarding Gina Lane Winnipeg Kangaroos

Catherine Gaarder North Shore

D 18 Feather Budge Toronto

D 21 Susan Budge Eva Rossinger Toronto Pinawa

D 35 Ritva Rasmussen Toronto

D 43 Gillian Bailey Toronto

Robyn Rennie North Shore

Kitty Jones Banff

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NOVA SCOTIA A.G.M.

Following tradition there were a number of lighter moments at this year's Annual General Meeting. Meeting at the Folkins' farm in Debert, N.S. on Nov. 25 we tried out a new variation of orienteering. Born of Barry Wheeler this variant left off the circles on the map and the course description with code numbers. Instead, at the start and at each control we found a clue as to where the next control would be. Eg. "up the path and 'round the bend, continue 'til you reach the West end.". Which path? Which bend? West end of the path? West end of the marsh?

handed out. This is the third year that the Nova Scotia Medical Society has supported our sport.

The meeting itself took what was left of the evening. Our popular president Barry Wheeler, Colchester Streakers, was re-elected. Eleanor Nicholl of Tracker is our new treasurer. Other Board Members are: Jim Blanchard, Annapolis Valley OC, Arne Naess, Tracker, and Tony Lugar, Bob Smith and Des Lord of Halifax Hustlers.

-Kristina Kaill

After running across the fields and through the marshes everybody was ready for a delicious pot luck supper.

Arne Naess showed slides from the 1978 WOC in Norway and translated some of Egil Johansen's comments to his championship run.

Nova Scotia Medical Society Orienteering Awards were presented Sixty-five individuals received T-shirts for reaching the bronze level. Twenty-two silver plaques and eleven gold trophies were

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NEW BRUNSWICK NEWS

by Sheila Andrew

With the Grand Falls club well established competition is getting fiercer around New Brunswick and the younger members have developed a great enthusiasm for competition.

Seventeen of us went to Newfound-land by every conceivable mode of transport, plane, car, van, boat, bicycle and enjoyed the orienteer-ing and the social life. Rumour has it that the team diving display splashed two thirds of the water out of the Holiday Inn pool.

Three card loads went to Quebec for the Provincial Championships and we would like to thank the Budge family for their hospital-ity to the Fredericton car load. Robin Andrew and Julien Marceau both managed to get to the Nova Scotia Championships and some of us got to the U.S. Championships.

All of this means we are hoping to improve the general standard of orienteering in the province, we are not sure if we are

succeeding but it is fun trying! Bob Kaill has been a big help to us in this, inviting yet another van load of our top juniors to a train-ing camp in Nova Scotia and coming to Fredericton to conduct a week-end intermediate clinic for older and less mobile members.

Still trying to branch out we have run beginners clinics in Bathurst, St. John, Blackville and for the Scout and Guide Leaders of Freder-icton District, the Cadets of St. John, and the Recreation Leaders class of the University of New Brunswick Physical Education Department and the University Surveying Department.

Maritime Command Cadet Corps held their championships in Odell Park and O.N.B. put out the courses and gave a brief preliminary instruct-ion session.

We now have clubs in St. John and Bathurst, Carol Ann Breau being not only D21 champion but the new president in Bathurst.

Moncton has only been treated to a display on orienteering at the university so far,we hope to get more going there next year as we

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have two members and some expression of interest.

A TRIM course has been set up out at the Guide Camp in the Frederic-ton area and plans are well under-say for a TRIM course in Odell Park for the Fredericton City Recreation Department.

The new map of Odell Park was brought out this year and work continues on three areas outside Fredericton. Don Coles could use some help so if any mappers out-side the province feel like a paid trip East, let us know. Gary Feeney has a new base map planned for the Grand Falls area and has a good team in Julien Marceau and Ron Levesque.

Club presidents Gary and Cliff Paisley provided a very full schedule of meets this year, nine in the two months beginning on September 8th to give you some example, so it has been a very busy year.

The New Brunswick Championships were run on the Grand Falls, Rapide des Femmes map, a suitable mixture of names for an orienteer-ing meet. Those from the south-ern climes of Fredericton found it cold and wet underfoot, but the hardy northerners assured us it was a good day for a run. A bus load also arrived from Bathurst where, with 75 enrolled

for a beginners' clinic, we have hopes of starting a new club.

Carol Ann Breau of Bathurst won the D21, which should give them some encouragement, needless to say Carol Ann is not a graduate of this year's beginners clinic.

Stig Skarborn won H35, rivals claim he psyched them out by finding someone with whom to talk Swedish before the start.

Unfortunately, someone working in the woods had taken one of the checkpoints so the Orange Course was not valid, a great disappoint-ment to all concerned. How do other clubs cope with this problem-trained guard snakes?

Gary Feeney was the noble meet coordinator and we would all like to thank him and Jacynthe Feeney for their hard work in arranging a most enjoyable day.

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O'RINGEN: WORLD'S BIGGEST SPORTS EVENT

0-Ringen, What's That?

1 I presume that most of you are familiar to a certain degree with this famous event. However, for those of you who have only recently been introduced to the noble sport of orienteering, a few words of explanation may be in order.

0-Ringen is a 5-day event that takes place in Sweden in July every year. The limit of 16,000 entries is usually reached with-out difficulty, so you may appreciate the enormous effort by the organizers. In spite of the great number of participants, everything runs very smoothly with few or no incidents. Every-thing is anticipated to the point that they even get all the moose out of the area for the week to avoid surprising confrontations.

Accommodation is available in hotels, motels, private rooms, student rooms, houses, cottages, hardwood floored schools and campsites; and, from reliable sources, I have learned that camping is the best choice. You will meet a lot of orienteers from all over the world, and

much like the old explorers, you can exchange gifts to find out how friendly the natives are. Maps and T-shirts have good trading value according to Larry Berman of Boston. Larry also tells me that it wasn't necessary for him to brush up his Swenglish - he had more difficultiee in understanding the Scots than the Swedes (which of course encouraged me to immediately stop nodding and shaking my head and, instead, throw in a few strategical "yeses" and "no's" and "Oh's" in our conver-sation). Located at the Competit-ion Centre, the campsite is well equipped with washrooms and a grocery store.

Starts begin at 0800, and from about 0830 people are coming through the finishing chutes in an almost uninterrupted stream till late in the afternoon. Shuttle buses take you out to the start area and back to the competition centre after you have finished and had a refreshing shower in ice cold water especially brought in from Lappland, according to a VERY reliable source. The shower areas are fenced in with black plastic sheets, and countless showerheads are connected to over-head pipes. According to another

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very reliable source (Leigh Bailey) - "to get to the men's shower area, although very im-practical for taking showers, you often have to pass a hill over-looking the ladies taking their showers."

If you have a early start, you'd better be an early riser. Some of the races are held 70 - 80 km from the centre. Now, getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning is no hardship in those latitudes where the sun has already pushed away a misty dawn several hours earlier. The problem is to go to bed when the sun is still after-noon high, although your watch tells you it is 9:30.

A range of close to 80 classes is offered to accommodate the taste of all ages that may span from 7 to 85 years. The courses vary in length from 1 to 11 km. The terrain is usually easier to run than what we are used to in North America, since the forest industry and landowners are well aware of the value of carefully looked after forests. Also, according t) Larry, the course-setters are keen to have people enjoy their running for the entire week, and thus the courses are a bit shorter and slightly less difficult than the general standard for Swedish meets. However, competition is terrifying, says Larry, boasting that he placed in the top 90%.

Entries have to be mace on a special form set up for computer regis-tration. These forms are numbered and entries should be made by club. Deadline for entries and billeting is March 31, 1980 but, if you are seriously interested, I suggest you mail your entry as soon as possible and no later than January.

Vesla Olimer of Claire Wallace Travel, Toronto, has a package tour for this event. As soon as I receive the entry forms, informat-ion will be sent out to all clubs and individuals who have requested further information. If your club has not received an invitation by Christmas, get cracking and send me a note with your own and your club's name and address.

Yours in orienteering,

Andy Wallenius 106 Indian Road Toronto, Ontario M6R 2V4

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1980 SWEDISH 5-DAYS

by Andy Wallenius

Sweden's international 5-day orienteering competition will take place July 21-25, 1980 in the province of Uppland with the city of Uppsala serving as reference centre. Three areas in the countryside of Uppland and two in Uppsala have been set aside for this event.

Prior to the event, a training program has been suggested for participants from Canada and U.S.A. to overcome the Jet-lag and familiarize yourself with this part of Sweden.

Arrive in Uppsala July 13

Monday, July 14: Departure by bus to Hammarskog where three courses are available in addition to a number of hiking trails. Entertainment in the form of Swedish Folk Dancing is planned and refreshments will be served. Information on the 5-Day orienteering event as well as interesting places to visit in and about Uppsala will be given.

Wednesday, July 16: Departure by bus to F011nora. This is a

beautiful wilderness area. Three courses are available and there will be opportunities for swimming, boating, fishing, sauna baths and hiking on marked trails. Refresh-ments will be available.

Friday, July 18: Departure by bus to the Trim Areas of Clubs of Uppsala. There are approximately 40 check-points that you may visit, and if you miss the bus back to Uppsala, you will have a good home stretch since this area is only about three miles east of the city. Also, for this meet they expect you to have learned enough about Swedish cooking to be able to bring your own lunch.

If there is sufficient interest, a one-week back-pack hike in the Swedish mountains may be arranged after the O-Ringen event.

Uppsala is located 35 km north of Arlanda International Airport and 67 km north of Stockholm. The 5-Day Orienteering event gives you and excellent opportunity to combine your interest in orienteer-ing with your summer holiday and to meet people from other countries who share your interest. Uppsala is one of the oldest cities in

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Sweden. It has served as the religious centre in Sweden for over 800 years, and it is the residence of the Swedish archbishop. It is the home of many eminent men of international fame. Uppland has the largest collection of historical relics of all provinces in Sweden, most of which date from the time of

the Vikings. The country's largest and oldest library is located in Uppsala.

For further information, contact:

Andy Wallenius 106 Indian Road Toronto, Ontario M6R 2V4

REPORT is available to all orienteers by subscription.

Published twice a year, it contains news of

international orienteering and the latest from

the IOF council and the committees.

Price: 5 US $ for two issues (one year) incl. Postage

Send bank draft payable to:

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WESTERN CLINIC PLANNED

Good news from western Canada is that there will be another clinic at Blue Lake in 1980. The dates are set for June 28- July 2.

The clinic will offer two sections - Advanced Map Making and Leader-ship Development. Participants from both sections will be able to run in an open orienteering event and several smaller training and fun events.

The Leadership Clinic content will include meet organization, course setting, advanced 0-techniques, teaching progressions and coaching methods and elementary mapping.

The Map Making Clinic will concen-trate on methods of field work, drawing and the production of multi-coloured maps.

The Clinic is open to all orien-teers from B.C., Alberta, Sask-atchewan, Manitoba and Northwest-ern Ontario. Participants from the Yukon and N.W.T. are especially welcome.

Pre-requisites: To apply for the Leadership section one should have

a sound basic knowledge of tte sport of Orienteering and have participated in at least three organized events at the intermediate level or higher. Those interested in the mapping clinic should have assisted with the completion of at least one orienteering map (Black and White or Coloured).

The Staff: The best staff available in gestern Canada plus two guest instructors from Ontario will be assembled for t}- e clinic.

REGISTRATION: Application forms will be available from your Provincial Association in February, 1 9 80. Apply directly through your Association both for entry and possible finan-cial assistance which may be available.

For more imformation:

JURI PEEPRE #2 - 2545 W 3rd Ave., Vancouver, B.C.

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GRANTS IN AID- SUBVENTIONS

1980-198 I 1930-31

GRANTS-IN-AID TO CANADIAN STUDENT-ATHLETES ENGAGED IN NON-GAME PLAN SPORTS*

Again this year the Federal Government, through the Fitness and Amateur Sport Branch, is offering Grants-In-Aid to athletes engaged in Non-Game Plan S arts who wish to continue their educational In sports careers.

The deadline for accepting completed applications is February 29, 1980. We solicit your cooperation in bringing this program to the attention of all your constituent organizations.

Program information and applications will also go to all Universities and Colleges, Provincial Direc-tors of Sport and High Schools.

While we feel that the information you receive is self-explanatory, the following points will be of particular interest:

I. Candidates will complete the application form in duplicate. The Branch will forward one copy to the sports governing body con-cerned.

2. Sports governing bodies will be asked to rate their applicants in order of national competi-tive excerlrnce-

I want to express, in advance, my appreciation for your assistance in this grant program.

NOTE: Athletes engaged in Game Plan sports are automatically eligible when cased under the Athlete Classification SysterriaCept those applying wider the special At tantic . Block section.

SUBVENTIONS AUX ATHLETES- ET U DiA N TS CANADIENS ENGAGgS DANS LES SPORTS QUI NE FONT PAS PARTIE DU PLAN DES 3EUX•

Cette armee encore, le gouvernement federal, par l'entremise de La Direction generale de la Condi-tion physique et du Sport amateur, afire des sub-ventions aux etudiants s'adormant a des sports non Rrevus au Plan desJeux et desireux de pourstii7r7 lieurs etudes et leur carriere sportive.

Les demandes dOment remplies seront acceptees jusqu'au 29 fivrrer 1980. Nous comptons beaucoup sur votre collaboration pour faire connattre ce programme aux organismes qui relevent de votre competence.

Nous enverrons egalernent les renseignements con-cernant le programme ainsi que des formulaires taus les universites et colleges, aux directeurs proviriciaux des sports et aux &riles secondaires.

Cette documentation pourrait se passer d'explica-tions, mats nous aimerions souligner les deux points suivants:

1. Les candidate devront remplir la demande en deux exemplaires. La Direction generale enverra une copie I l'association sportive nationale interessee.

2. Les associations sportives rationales devront dosser les candidate par ordre d'excellence pour Is competition a Pechelle rationale.

3e vous remercie a Pavance de votre collaboration ce programme et vous prie d'agreer mes saluta-

tions distinguies.

NOTE: Les athletes s'adonnant a des sports prevus Fran des Jeux sont automatiquement admissibles

lorsrp.as3---ont titulaires d'une carte en vertu du systeme de classement des athIT a !'exception de crux qui font une demandt darts le cadre de Is section Bloc atlantique.

Peter 9 Leslux Assistant Under Secretary of State

Sous-secretaire dttat adjoint

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HOW TO BE AN ORIENTEER!

by Gail Fancy

The following article appeared in the November issue of Aiming East, the Nova Scotia magazine.

Often, when wearing one of my orienteering T-shirts, I have been asked,"What is orienteering?" or "What do you have to do to be an orienteer?" Although a question like that defies any form of answer, I have attempted to come up with one. You have to be:

1. Friendly: This is very important because your fellow orienteers see you in some of the worst messes you'll ever get into, so don't worry about how you look. And tell everybody else they look great, even if they have fallen in two mud puddles, skinned both knees, and gotten tree gum in their hair, You're an orienteer you understand!

2. Crazy: You must be 85%-95% out-of-your-mind to go through (especially early on Sunday mornings!) what an orienteer considers routine.

3. Mountain Climber: You must be able to scale heights, climb rock faces (up and down at a speed no less than 10 mph) and still complete the course with no worse than a modified limp.

4. Able to see Through Things: You must be able to see a clearing, swamp or body of water through a minimum of 100 meters of dense woods.

5. Quick: An orienteer must always look like he/she knows where he/she is going. When out in the woods, and you meet another orienteer, and you, of course, are totally lost, glance at your map quickly and dash into the bush with the determination of a bull-moose, as if you are about to spike the control. Provided the other orienteer doesn't follow you into the woods, you have successfully avoided embarrassment and may now sit under the nearest tree and pray for help.

6. Able to See Long Range: You must have good long-distance eye sight. An orienteer must be able to stay far behind the person he/she is following, so it is not obvious.

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SUPPORT FOR AUSTRALIA?

The following article was translated from the magazine of the Swiss Orienteering Federation and appeared in The Australian Orienteer.

(It was written before Canada made its presentation at the 1979 WOC).

"Canada seems to realise that their plan to undertake WM85 is beyond their capacity at present. They are concerned at the number of people who would be involved in the international orienteering competition.

Of course, for only 1,500 members (one full-time federal manager), the problem is a real one.

But Australia is making dynamic steps to secure the award of WM 85.

In 1978 the car-sticker and T-shirt promotions attracted much attention. They followed this up by inviting the world champions, Egil Johansen and Ann-Berit Eid, to Australia.

This year Australian mappers were given new stimulus through a seminar with the mapper for WM 76, the Scotsman Robin Harvey.

Top Australian orienteers are being prepared for WM 79 by Sweden's Roland Offrell.

In autumn 1980 Australia will conduct not only another 3-Day event but also the first Continental Championship held outside Europe-The Pacific Championships.

The Australians are not afraid to show the 0-world their achievements in 10 years of 0-work.

There is reason to say they are even somewhat ahead of Switzerland. While we are looking for sponsors everywhere, our antipodean friends have their School Championships sponsored by Nestle."

I feel the article calls for some reply. It is surprising the Swiss, as reputed as they are for high standards would be so impressed by car -sticker and T-shirt promotions.

Had the Swiss bothered to look around they would have noticed that Canada was the first country outside Europe to host a 5-Day Meet. That meet attracted 700 overseas visitors in 1976. We followed it with a 6-Day Meet in 1978.

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The first Continental Champion-ships outside Europe was the 1971 North Americans. They have been held every 2 years since. It is good to see the Australians are following our lead.

It is true the Australians were given a new stimulus by an IOF sponsored mapping clinic-much the same as we were in 1978.

One thing that we can learn from this article is that it is by no means certain that Canada will be awarded the '85 Championships. There is some support for Australia and at least some of that support is based on a tremendous amount of misinfor-mation.

Gord Hunter

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C.O.F. have purchased a supply of orange coloured durable plastic whistles. These whistles can be purchased from Provincial '0' Associations and will be on sale at most events.

PACE SCALES FOR ORIENTEERING An easy way to measure distance when you are walking in the forest is to count the number of double steps (paces) re-quired to cover 100 metres in average terrain. For tougher (slower) or easier (faster) going, you adjust your pace count based upon previous experience.

Willy's pace scale system lets you determine the number of paces you personally need to cover the distace you have meas-sured on the map. The pace scales are designed for fast and easy conversion of your pace length to distance in metres, calibrated for different map scales. e.g.

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2. In route between two points you want to know how far you have travelled. Place Willy's pace scale on your map and simply read the number of paces you have taken -- that's where you are.

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