The 2015 Canada Winter Games was put on by an small army of dedicated, skilled and smiling volunteers and officials. These people were truly amazing as many chose to take their limited holiday time and essentially donate it to the Games effort. Many had to work for very long hours each day and start very early in the morning. Many began the volunteer effort several years ago when the Games were awarded to Prince George and venues needed to be designed and built or upgraded.
I am sure there are hundreds that did outstanding work, but there are a few whom I had the immense pleasure to work with that I need to recognize. First of all there was John Hybers, the Otway venue lead, who worked tirelessly for years prior to the Games on dozens of complicated planning issues and put in 18 hour days every day during the Games keeping the venue functioning and safe (considering the continuous freeze-thaw we has this was not an easy task).
I also need to mention the amazing work that Lanita Horning did as Otway's food services lead. She worked tirelessly through some very challenging situations in the first week of the Games and managed to keep volunteers, officials, athletes and coaches well fed and happy (about 300 people).
Tim Roots and Jim Burbee are also outstanding Otway superstars that gave thousands of hours planning, designing, supervising and working on the phenomenal venue upgrades that occurred at Otway over the last four years, including trails, range and technical buildings.
My list of amazing and dedicated volunteers that I had the pleasure to work with goes on and on and would take many columns of this newspaper to list, I hope you all know who you are; many thanks. The Games was organized and run by you, please take a bow.
Pierre Beaudry
Biathlon Sports Lead, 2015 Canada Winter Games
Prince George
