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Walking through Cadboro-Gyro Park, nearby resident and park user Elizabeth Borek gestures to the dirt and gravel pathways bordering the playground and promenade. “Why can’t they just leave it the way it is?” she asks. “Why does it have to be black asphalt?” The park is currently being upgraded after several years of public consultation, and the approved plans ruffled the feathers of quite a few area residents. The upgrades to the park include relocating the iconic playground equipment – like the giant octopus – onto more stable ground, improving drainage and realigning and upgrading pathways to allow greater accessibility for walkers, wheelchairs, strollers and motorized scooters.
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Les East has collected about 150 medals and another 80 ribbons as a competitor in Senior Games tournaments in B.C., Washington, Arizona, Utah and other states. Travis Paterson/News staff
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As he sorts through a dinner table covered in medals, 75-year-old Les East explains how he can compete in a dozen or so track and field events each year. His medals – about 150 of them – are grouped into bunches of threes or fours, and sometimes more, as he enters into multiple events at every Games he attends – not just his specialities: the triple jump, high jump and long jump. Arizona, Utah, California and Nevada read prominently in the crest of the medallions. Some years there’s more events and some-
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to throw the hammer, earning an automatic gold for that category. “It’s something I’ve really accepted. When I first started competing (in 2004) I really wanted to win, but now I’m most excited about having people there to compete against. That’s what matters most,” East says. Thusly, he has pushed a box brimful of first place blue ribbons to the side of the dinner table. He won’t be sorting them. “The ribbons are from some of the smaller track and field competitions on the Island or around B.C. It’s great to have them, but the truth is the smaller events are often without a deep field of competition so many of my first place ribbons can be misleading.”
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times other events get in the way, such as his October favorite, the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah. East will skip it this year, as he and wife Betty will instead be with their son and daughter-in-law to welcome the arrival of a grandson. “We have an RV based in Arizona, which we use to attend these Senior Games,” the Saanich man says. “We’re big-time snowbirds.” The couple recently celebrated 50 years of marriage, though there’s no medal for that achievement, but there is a series of wedding photos on the Easts’ mantle. Last weekend they rode their bikes onto the Coho ferry and East competed in the Washington State Senior Games in Olympia. He won bronze in the shot put and discus, two events with plenty of competition. And as it happens, he was the only male in the 75-to-79 age group
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