Standout local skier Alix Wells excited to light the Olympic cauldron on Friday
Alix Wells didn't know she was on the list of Olympic torch bearers until her name was drawn last summer.
But the biggest surprise was yet to come, when the 14-year-old Prince George Alpine Ski Racers team member found out she will be the one to light the cauldron this Friday night at Exhibition Park when the torch makes its way to Prince George.
"I'm pretty excited," said Wells. "It's a really big honour.
"I found out in summer but I wasn't allowed to say anything until September."
Well's name was submitted by Heather Tandy, one of her teachers at Kelly Road secondary school. Tandy's daughter Megan will compete in the Winter Olympics in biathlon.
The torch relay starts Friday at 5:09 p.m. at Van Bien elementary school at 311 Wilson Cres., then heads along Ferry Avenue to Westwood Drive, then proceeds to Massey Drive into downtown past the Civic Centre plaza and back out of downtown along 15th Avenue to Exhibition Park.
The torch is expected to arrive in the parking lot at Exhibition Park for the cauldron-lighting ceremony at 7 p.m. The entertainment begins at 6 p.m. and is capped off with a fireworks display at around 8 p.m.
