The 2012 BC Winter Games torch has been lit. At an event attended by hundreds of people Friday night, Vernon Monashee MLA Eric Foster was the official lighter. He says the games running Feb 23 to 26, 2012 are going to be a big event. "The economic drive is big. As Games president Akbal Mund said, there
will be 14-hundred athletes and then all the support that goes with
that like the families, so several thousand people will come to town,
and they'll leave a few million dollars here." Foster also presented Mund with a $100,000 cheque from the Community and Sport Ministry, to use for the games. Mund quipped,"Time to go Christmas shopping," after getting the cheque.Global BC news anchor Randene Neill, a Vernon native, emceed the event outside Vernon City Hall, which marks less than 100 days until the games begin. The torch will remain lit until the games are over.
Photo: MLA and torch lighter Eric Foster poses with Princess Kaitlyn Chirkoff (left) and Queen Silver Star Aksana Skrinnikoff in front of the BC Games torch Friday night (P McIntyre photo)
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