RALLY: Black Bear Rally Calls for Workers

Courtesy Ross Wood

Maple Leaf Rally Club is pleased to present the Black Bear Rally on Saturday, June 18, 2005 in Dorset, ON. Due to the initiatives of an eager new committee under Ryan Huber, for the first time in many years the Bear will be a full Regional event i.e. not just one road.

In addition to the traditional Sherbourne Lake stage, Black Bear will be running stages on the Pine Springs and Ril Lake roads, giving a full 100 km of competitive stages. This is due to major road repairs having been done by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the support of RallySport Ontario in the project in order to have a full stand-alone Regional again in Ontario.

This means that we need your help on the day of the event. Lots of ham radio operators, timing marshals, traffic control marshals and crowd control marshals will be required.

Another new feature for this year is the provision of stage notes by the organizers with competitors getting one pass of every stage early Saturday morning to familiarize themselves with the notes. A few workers will be required to assist with that. The bulk of the workers will be needed by 9 a.m. on Saturday.

So please mark June 18 on your calendar and respond to ross.wood@sympatico.ca to confirm your attendance.

Note: we also need volunteers for a Road Work Day on Saturday, May 28.