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The race is over for this egg. Maybe next year...
The 1980 Egg' Race Champ, Mark Stokes
The Great
Victoria
Egg Race
cracked
them up
Drivers, start your engines......
It wasn't exactly like: that at Victoria Public
School last Wednesday, but the gymasium was
transformed into a raceway nonetheless as
grades 4, ,5,,.,,arld 6 pupils geared,,;tu,for the, an-
nual Great Victoria Egg Race.
Pupils built elastic band 'powered vehicles
that were to carry an egg as great a distance as
possible. One at a time, they let their creations
z€S.om down the gym floor and their distances
were measured by race organizers Mr. Larry
Snell and Mr. Doug Yeo.
After everyone had had two chances to wind
' up. their cars, officials determined that Mark
Stokes, a grade 4 pupil, was the 1980 champion.
In second place was Vickie Sudy.k in grade 5,
. tcam—of
Arlene Brewer and Joanne Campbell, both in
grade 6.
photos by
Cath Wooden
A vid spectators watch the action
Peter Chrysler checks out the winning design
Concentration is important in the pit
• Karen Pollock does some
int' tuning