Valley News from West Lebanon, New Hampshire • 14

vai i fv Nfws Friday December 28 2001 Page B6 Sports Torch Relay Schedule of Events FRIDAY ft SATURDAY DEC 28th29th SALT LAKE 2002 OL: OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY Arrival and departure times of the torch subject to change Staff Reports Norwich Three Suggested Viewing Areas: 1) Collis Center Hanover 2) Colburn Park Lebanon 3) Lyman Point Park WRJ Music Center Chorus including the singing of the Olympic Torch theme Carry the Flame by the chorus as well as a special presentation from SLOC representatives to Lebanon Mayor Ralph Akins and other entertainment and interactive displays The highlight of the evening will be the lighting of a community cauldron with the Olympic torch symbolic of the presence in the Upper Valley The torch is scheduled to arrive in Qdbum Park at around 8 pm after the events at Stons HilL Other features of the Colburn Park gala arc a display of Olympic memorabilia in Lebanon City Hall and a reception following' the gala with Upper Valley Olympians in the Lebanon Opera House The Lebanon -Lions Club and the Riverside Rotary Club will provide refreshments As parking will be limited and traffic will be rerouted around Colburn Park today shuttle buses will be available to Colburn Park from selected sites around the Upper Val- ley The visit of the Olympic torch to the Upper Valley continues tomorrow when the relay leaves West Lebanon at 7 am from the Wal-Mart parking lot and moves into Vermont The torch carried by a member of Abenaki Indian tribe will be paddled in a native canoe from West Lebanon across the Connecticut River to Lyman Point Park in White River Junction There a ceremony welcoming the torch to the Green Mountain State will be held in the handstand at approximately T30 am Refreshments will be available and the fust 100 participants will1 receive an authentic Salt Lake dympic Torch Relay pin After running through downtown White River Junction the relay will proceed north to Wilder where the torch will be returned to its motorcade for the remainder of its journey through Vermont on the way to Salt Lake City For more information on these events see wwwvalley-torchoig or contact the recreation departments in Hanover (603-643-5315) Lebanon (603-448-5121) or Hart- ford (802-295-5036)1 As part of its 65-day trip from Atlanta to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games' the Olympic torch will make Upper Valley stops in Hanover Lebanon and Hartford While in the valley it will be carried by 35 Vermont and New Hampshire residents chosen by the Salt Lake Olympic Committee (SLOC) and Olympic Torch Relay sponsors Coia-Colaand Chevrolet Several events and celebrations are scheduled to commemorate the arrival beginning in Hanover this afternoon The town will hold a Fair' on the Dartmouth Green beginning at 5 pm The fair will include children's games music provided by Versatile Sound Productions snack food and beverages The fair culminates with the arrival of the Olympic torch for a brief welcoming ceremony on the steps of College Hall across from the Green shortly after 6 pm (The actual arrival and departure times of the Olympic torch along its route through the Upper Valley are subject to change For current information an the torch route times and events connected to the Olympic Torch Relay go to the Upper Valley Olympic Torch Web site wwwvalleyiorclvotg) After Olympic torchbearers run the torch through Hanover it's on to Lebanon for an end-of-day celebration at Storts Hill Ski Area and in the city's Col bum Park At around 230 pm the torch relay is scheduled to arrive at Stores Hill where the Olympic torch will be part of a torchlight parade from the tap of the hill to the 25-meter ski jump There the torch will fly off the jump carried by a Lebanon Outing Club competitor before the relay continues uptown to Colburn Paric An Olympic celebration sponsored by SLOC Coke and Chevy is scheduled to begin in the park at 630 pm time Upper Valley radio personality Ray Reed will emcee the celebration which will include performances by the Upper Valley Community Band and the Upper Valley Tire Kingdom Route 4: Designated Parking Saturday Dec 29 1 1 7:15 am Conn River crossing to Lyman Point In White River Traffic Plans for Olympic Torch Visit Junction via Abenaki Indian canoe 1 7:30 auii Welcoming ceremony atHartford Town Bandstand In Lyman Point Park -Refreshments served Busing ii provided to the Colburn Park Celebration from alT designated parking Wal-Mart UVOTRC Svend Soma: Upper VsMey Olympic Torch RreyCommttet IUVQTRQ Storrs Hill LOG Take a Bow To accommodate the Olympic Gala-on Colburn Park today traffic patterns around the park will change as follows The Hanover police will close Nprth Main Street from Wheekxk Street to Wentworth Street beginning about 5 pun Southbound traffic on Main Street will be detoured onto Tuck Drive Lebanon police will close East Park Street North Park Street and West Park Street beginning at 1 pun South Park Street will be open to two-way traffic between School Street and Hanover Street Court Street will be dosed from the The Miracle Mile Plaza on the Miracle' Mile (Route 4) in West Lebanon Tire Kingdom an Route 4 just past Exit 17 of L89 in Lebanon The Hanover Street School next to Lebanon High School on Hanover Street in Lebanon Visitors to the Olympic Gala are encouraged to use these satellite parking areas-and the free shuttle service Shuttle buses will begin runs at 530 pun and will continue until after the conclusion of the gala For more information on traffic and street closings call the Lebanon Police Department at (603) 448-1212 Mascoma Bank drive-through lane to North Park Street also beginning at 1 pm There will be no parking on Kimball Street and Shaw Street after I pun The Advance Transit stop at Court Street will temporarily be rekv catedto the Withered Cem ter on Campbell Street Buses will stop at the Witherell Center at the regular Court Street pick-up and drooff times A free shuttle bus service will be operating to and from Colburn Park diving this Olympic Gala using three satellite-parking locations: get to see a kid who could barely stand up on skis when he startsand atthe end of the program he's skiing like crazy Grag Simpson of Lebanon left bn ttis benefits of being the director of alpine skiing for the Lebanon Outing Club Continued from Page B3 out because their jobi" Instead people like Simpson whom outing club veteran John Fam-ham talked into teaching alpine skiing to kids not long after Simpson came to the Upper Valley from southern Connecticut to work in the laboratory at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Simpson now entering his fourth season as director of alpine skiing for the LOG still was recovering from a stroke he'd suffered in 1968 but he jumped at the chance getting involved with teaching was a way not only to teach other 1 to ski but to relearn to ski myself" Simpson said all benefiting takes a lot of time but if you love something enough you make sure you find the time to do it It's a lot of fun I really enjoy working with the kids You get to see a kid who could barely stand up on skis when he starts and at the end of the program he's skiing like Min Famham also got a lot of kids1 ski jumping like crazy Ten yeans ago a then-12-year-old Chris Baker whose grandfather and uncles ski jumped through the LOG showed up to take alpine skiing lessons when his genes started speaking to him saw the jumping and said News Check out our new Valley News subscription E-Z Pay program jumping teammate) Eric Smith and I flipped a coin to see who got to carry the torch off the Baker said of me hoped he was going to win the flip to teU the truth I thought What if I crash? But in the end I figured too big an honor to pass up many people actually get to carry the 1 Erling Heistad is glad to let other people in the LOC carry it tOnighL Otherwise he might douse it with his tears of pride and joyat seeing the flame crane to Stores HilL you go out and paint a dream so people can see it what the Olympic torch is all Heistad said gives everybody a piece of that give it a said Baker a 1997 graduate of Lebanon High School John who brought the sport back to where it Tonight at Steins Hill Simpson will finish his downhill run by passing the Olympic flame from his torch to and Baker will carry the torch off the 20-meter jump and through a ring of fire After not jumping in competition on snow since last March Baker now a freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst hopes that he can pull this off without re-enacting a fiery version of the Wide World of Sports' opening in which a ski jumper falls hard while host Jim McKay intones and the agony of More Convenient! 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