Wednesday, June 30, 1993

CANADA DAY:  Organizers are expecting 50,000 people for Canada Day 
celebrations on the north campus tomorrow, July 1.  Marlene Miles of
UW's community relations office, who's working 14-hour days coordinating
much of the activity for Canada Day, says the bad-weather plan is to 
go ahead anyway; there is no "rain date", and the celebrations will
only be cancelled if the weather is too awful for fireworks.  Any
emergency announcement of that kind will be made on radio station CHYM.

The day starts with a parade, leaving from the Wilfrid Laurier University
grounds, on King Street south of University, at 3:00.  Kids in costumes
are welcome to join in.  It continues with music and games on the 
north campus, and a 4:30 p.m. opening ceremony (Jim Kalbfleisch, in his
first day as provost of UW, will bring greetings).  Yes, there will be 
refreshments for sale, and washrooms available.  Candles will be for sale
as dusk approaches, and fireworks will go up about 10 p.m.

Columbia Street will be closed from Phillip to Westmount, from 3 p.m. to
midnight.  All UW parking lots will be open and free tomorrow, except
for lot J (students living in the Villages) and the lots north of Columbia
Street.  Lot K near Village 1 is reserved for disabled visitors to
Canada Day.

A LONG WEEKEND:  Tomorrow, July 1, and Friday, July 2, are university
holidays.  Classes are cancelled, and offices and most services will be
closed, except for those (such as the museums) that are open specially 
for Canada Day visitors. 

The libraries will be closed Thursday and Friday, but open limited
hours on Saturday and Sunday.  The Graduate House will be open Friday 
and promises a noon-hour barbecue.

SUNRAYCE:  Final results are in from the thousand-mile Sunrayce '93 for
solar-powered cars.  Waterloo's vehicle, Midnight Sun II, finished 33rd
out of 34 entrants, with an average speed of 10.26 miles per hour on
the seven-day run from Dallas to Minneapolis.  The University of Michigan
entry zipped along at an average of 27.29 miles per hour to win the event.
Biggest problem for Midnight Sun was that the car was "a little overweight"
and kept blowing its rear tires, says team member Karl Rueb.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs
credmond@watserv1    ext. 3004