| The city of Regina is planning a party - complete with | | | | informed the scholars gathered before leading them |
| a winter carnival, entertainment and fireworks - to | | | | in a cheer. |
| greet the Olympic flame to the community in | | | | 'When I see the excitement in their faces and when |
| January. | | | | they are cheering and hollering for Team Canada, it's |
| Organizers displayed plans for the Jan. Nine event in | | | | actually great as it reminds me how I felt when I |
| front of excited kids arrayed in sports jerseys, | | | | was that young and what originally brought the |
| interspersed with the odd fairy, witch and dragon, at | | | | Olympic spirit into my dreams,' Byers told reporters. |
| Ruth M. Buck faculty on friday morning. | | | | 'The torch relay is a way for every voter to become |
| Callie Morris, an 18-year-old varsity of Regina student, | | | | a part of the Olympic spirit,' she said. |
| will carry torch the last three hundred metres to the | | | | The Olympic flame arrived in Canada Fri. to begin its |
| stage before lighting the community cauldron in the | | | | 45,000-kilometre, 106-day trek to Vancouver, when |
| January show at the Fieldhouse. | | | | the Olympic Cauldron will be lit Feb. Twelve, 2010. |
| 'This is sort of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that | | | | Sporting red Olympic mittens, Mayor Pat Fiacco and |
| I'm very grateful for. I'm just excited and can't bear | | | | Coun. Mike O'Donnell, chair of the Regina host council |
| to wait to carry the torch,' she said. As Morris, a | | | | for the torch relay, inspired the students and their |
| hockey and baseball player and wrestler, held a torch | | | | families to take in the Jan. 9'fun-filled' activities which |
| in her hands from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, | | | | will run from 4 to nine p.m. Plans include sports |
| she was surprised by its weight. But she's's even | | | | displays with members of the Riders and Pats |
| more thrilled by the possibility of being able to hold | | | | available ; a winter carnival with ice sculptures, snow |
| onto the Vancouver Olympic Games torch she'll carry | | | | games, and lantern procession ; cultural entertainment |
| that day. | | | | ; and a concluding 10-minute fireworks display. Venues |
| Paddler Kia Byers, Regina's own Olympic upbeat, | | | | include the Fieldhouse and Evraz Place. |
| recalled watching the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games | | | | The torch relay will see a new torchbearer every |
| on TV as a 10-year-old and seeing the proud | | | | three hundred metres. Organizers don't release details |
| Canadian winners. Byers, who competed this year | | | | about the route until closer to the event for security |
| with Team Canada in canoeing at the international | | | | reasons. There'll be non-permanent road closures |
| championships, declared those Canadian sportsmen | | | | along the relay route. |
| provoked her. 'I would like you to dream big,' she | | | | |