Maple Leaf Rally Club is pleased to present the Black Bear Rally on Saturday, June 18, 2005 in Dorset, Ontario.  Due to the initiatives of an eager new committee under Ryan Huber, for the first time in many years the Bear will be a full Regional event i.e. not just one road.  In addition to the traditional Sherbourne Lake stage, we will be running  stages on the Pine Springs and Ril Lake roads, giving a full 100 km. of competitive stages.  This is due to major road repairs having been done by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the support of RallySport Ontario in the project in order to have a full stand-alone Regional again in Ontario.

This means that we need your help on the day of the event.  Lots of ham radio operators, timing marshals,  traffic control marshals and crowd control marshals will be required.

Another new feature for this year is the provision of stage notes by the organizers with competitors getting one pass of every stage early Saturday morning to familiarize themselves with the notes.  A few workers will be required to assist with that.  The bulk of the workers will be needed by 9 A.M. on Saturday.

So please mark June 18th on your calendar and respond to ross.wood@sympatico.ca  to confirm your attendance.

Note – we also need volunteers for a Road Work Day on Saturday, May 28th.

Ross Wood,  2005 Black Bear Chief Control Marshal

Thanks to those of you who already responded to the first two calls for workers for the Black Bear Rally, which will run on Saturday, June 18, 2005.  By combining two stages,  reducing our requirements for Start/Finish marshals and through new volunteers coming forward in the last ten days,  we are getting close to having enough help, but still need more Traffic Control, Crowd Control and Radio Marshals.

If you can assist or know of anyone else who might be able to,  please get back to me ASAP.  

No experience required.  We will train you.

The rally will run in the Dorset area – about 2.5 hours north of Toronto.  You can come up,  help out and return on the day of the event or stay overnight,  whichever you prefer.

This week a grader spent two full days on the roads,  resulting in the new stages being  in  great condition.  The competitors will love them.



Ross Wood,  2005 Black Bear Chief Control Marshal

ross.wood@sympatico.ca