Ohakune sports club asks for $10,000

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 254, 14 September 1988, Page 3

Ohakune sports club asks for $10,000

TASCI has applied for a $10,000 Hillary Commission grant to be used to subsidize the club's ski programmes. TASCI (Turoa Alpine Ski Club Incorporated) is an Ohakune-based ski and alpine club about to celebrate its 15 th birthday. The club actively promotes and organises skiing and tramping with the main thrust of its activities being in ski racing. The club is applying for the funds because it has lost its primary source of income, which was hut fees from Turoa Skifields who have in the past leased the club's premises in Ohakune as staff accommodation. Also, the club wants to provide "an introduction to skiing and training for children in the primary catchment area of the club (i.e. local residents) who cannot afford the cost." The club currently has about 60 member families. It regards its main purpose as introducing people to alpine activities and equipping them with safety skills and technique training. TASCI claims its ski racing programme to be extremely successful, naming Patrick Cooper, Chris and Shireen Mosaed as products of the programme.

Projects the Hillary commission funds would go to include: • A "Sunday Club", with hired instructors providing subsidised training for a half or full day for skiers just learning and acquiring basic skills. About 20 children are enrolled this season. • An exchange programme with Shiga-

Kogen ski area, Japan, with visits by Japanese skiers one year and a visit by Turoa skiers the next. The club meets the costs of a team manager plus a 20% subsidy on team track suits, jackets and hats (with part sponsorship by a local ski shop). • Financial support totalling $2000 t o

Olympic racers (particularly Patrick Cooper and Chris Mosaed). • A local primary schools programme where children from the National P a r k , Ohakune, Raetihi and Waiouru Primary Schools are given subsidised day ski trips to Turoa (TASCI helps meet tuition costs).

• Basic Proficiency Badge tests, available to children from the above programme. • A Summer Camp to North America if funds can be obtained. This would be for senior academy member s whose future racing careers will be stifled unless TASCI can facilitate and subsidise highTurn page 4

TASCI asks for $10,000

From page 3 level summer training in Canada and/or the United States. • Full and part sponsorship of season passes and/or race academy fees for underprivileged local children who show commitment and potential as racers but whose families cannot afford to meet costs.