; The Cadre

By RYAN O'CONNOR

Recently, people around the world were treated to a unique Charlottetown-based event: a fund raiser for the Children’s Wish Foundation of PEI featuring “the fastest man in the world,” Ben Johnson, two horses and a stock car.

The Charlottetown Driv- ing hosted the man ver- sus versus machine race on Oct. 15.

The event was billed by many as “the Race of the Cen- tury” -- a title taken from the

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Over 50 media outlets the world over covered the fund raiser, including Cana- dian media suchas TSN, CBC, and CTV, as well as FOX and a television crew from Ger- many and ines such as Esquire and TIME.

The event was a result of the collaboration between the Atlantic Lottery Corpora- tion, which has a business re- lationship promoting the CDP,

the Children’s Wish Founda- tion of PEI, and the CDP itself.

According to Mike Randall, who was in of Atlantic Lottery Corporation's mediarelations surrounding the event, the race was the brain child of Bert Mc Wade, and of Atlantic Lottery.

Among what appears to be a somewhat curious choice of runners, Johnson was or- eae first choice -- despite

is checkered past.

“{Johnson’s}] name was the first to come up,” Randall said. “He's still the fastest

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Ben Johnson races for Children's Wish Foundation of PEI

man on the planet.” He added that Johnson is active in chari- ties such as cancer research, the Toronto Children’s Hospi- tal, and does numerous anti- drug talks.

Racing against Johnson were Lloyd Duffy, jockey of the Morgan horse, Wally Hennessey, the world re-

race driver, and MASCAR driver Mike Ryan -- all of whom are Is- landers. All race participants

srpenrer for free, including

Once Atlantic Lottery

ee the idea they

hed the driving park. apron eer it, and since it was Children” s Wish Foun- dation Week. it was deemed appropriate that they be the benefactors of the fund-raiser. This charity has had a pres- ence on Prince Edward Island

tobe involved, Johnson jumped at the chance. The Children’s Wish Foundation is a charity that ts wishes to termi- nally ili children.

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CFS launches first of two series of CFS Days of Action

By KAREN RAWLINES

The first of two series of Pan-Canadian Days of Action, an initiative of the Ca- nadian Federation of Students (CFS), took place from Oct. 13to 16 toa politely restrained

would be a really good way of keeping our momentum go- ing.

She adds that the cuts in

Though reasonably quiet, Doucette maintains that the activities put forward by UPEI were effective for what

and student unemployment. Students also had the opportunity to sign a banner insisting that the public remain in post-secondary education. This will be delivered to an as

yet unspecified government of- ficial, such as Paul Martin or Chester Gillan.

In the past, organizers of the Day of Action found that it was difficult to stage a large demonstration or a pro- test rally because of a general lack of participation. Doucette hopes that last week's infor- mation session will helpto spur some interest for future events.

“We felt that maybe stu- dents don’t know enough about what’ s going on, and therefore are not as interested in the issues,” she said.

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