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    Children Let Down By Broadcasters

    Many Scouts and Girl Guides had the privilege of being part of the Opening Ceremonies for the Canada Winter Games 2003. What a wonderful experience for the kids, they were excited and could hardly wait to be seen all over Canada on national TV . Many times they got discouraged and wanted to quit but parents and leaders kept encouraging them, we told them it was a once in a lifetime thing and something they will always look back on and will always be proud of being part of.

    In the dressing room today Hon Bernard Lord came to greet the children, he spoke and encouraged them, he gave them time, he took pictures and signed his name to plain pieces of paper for them an very important highlight that they also will remember.

    February 22 is an important day for Scouts and Guides around the world, "Thinking Day" the founders Lord and Lady Baden-Powell's joint birthday. Canada Games involvement was a perfect way for these children to celebrate and work hard to achieve a goal above and beyond, to be prepared for accuracy, timing and perfection that was expected with no second chance.

    These kids travelled to Bathurst two and three nights a week and put in many long hours during the months of practicing, all to be shunned by timing, that was not their fault, punished, disappointed and saddened to go home where they should have been enthused after their hard work to watch on national TV what they were so proud of doing but instead only to find that they were and will not be seen.

    For parents that had no way of seeing their own kids perform because of not being able to purchase tickets for the opening ceremonies, grandparents, friends that they told to watch them, teachers, families away that was waiting in other provinces and cities to watch their little loved ones on national TV, a once in a lifetime event... all to find out they were cut, shunned, embarassed and left out with an empty feeling.

    I'd like to know as a parent how, if this was there child with a broken heart and great disappointment, they would feel. It's hard to get kids involved with good positive things in today's society and when they do, this happens.

    I realize that the opening ceremonies ran later than expected and there was only so much time for air space but I am sure that there was other places that could of been minimized, these kids had 2 minutes only, one coffee or Pepsi commercial could have been cut instead. I was there waiting with the kids and so were many others also. Too bad but just so sad that the commercials were too much more important than Lady winter, the kids playing in the snow, the throwing snowballs to the athletes where the athletes threw snowballs back. The trees of life, fire, The moose fight and the evolution of the whale. This was our Troops' Thinking Day, one I am sure they will never forget.

    Lillian Carrier

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