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HELENAWEIDER
Helen (Helena)Weiderwas born
near Prague, Czechoslovakia in
1908. She assistedher husband
Jozo at his lodge in the Slovak
mountains and then immigrated
with Jozo and infant George to
Canada in 1938. Shewrote three
books andwas almost 102 years
oldwhen she died in 2008.This
undatedphotomay predate the
couple's arrival inCanada.
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TODDBROOKER
TheWorldCup championdownhiller grewup
at Blue under the tutelage of ErnieMcCulloch,
Blue's ski school supremo, andAustrian-born
coachRudyHiegelsberger at theToronto Ski
Club.Here, Brooker is on the road to recovery
after his near-fatal crash at Kitzbuehel,Austria
in1987.
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THEPONDSKIM
Skiers andboarders throw an end-of-winter hurrahby attempting to skim across a large pool or troughofwater at the base of the
hill.Quite often, they fail spectacularly.And that is the point. Recent events, known as the SpringMeltdownor RetroPond Skim, have
helped raise funds for theCollingwoodGeneral &MarineHospital.
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NIGHTSHIFT
Rob Sheridanhas beenworking at Blue since 1977, two years before the launchof night
skiing at the resort, initially onO-Hill andBigBaby. "I workednight skiing in ’82 and itwasn’t
anythingbig," says Sheridan. "It justwasn’t attractive. Itwas the long, cold rides up—a 12,
15-minute ride up.Night skiingonly startedgrowing in the late 1980s and early 1990s once
we started runninghigh-speedquad lifts and couldoffer shorter rides. Since thenwe’ve been
constantly expanding." We don't have a date on this archive photobut it looks tobe in the
first decade of night skiing at Blue.
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