Comments on: Olympic Spirit and Community Pride http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride Girlfriends ~ Inspiration ~ Silver Jewelry Treasures Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bonnie Johnson http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride/comment-page-1#comment-3677 Bonnie Johnson Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:12:47 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=12412#comment-3677 Let's have some Olympic watching get-togethers at our place!! Go Canada! Go Australia! Let’s have some Olympic watching get-togethers at our place!! Go Canada! Go Australia!

]]> By: Bonnie Johnson http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride/comment-page-1#comment-3676 Bonnie Johnson Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:10:46 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=12412#comment-3676 I'll be watching it all on tv too! If you walk by our house during the games you'll be sure to hear us cheering! I can understand some of the reasons behind why some don't want the Olympics, but at this point like it or not, they are going to happen. Why not embrace the spirit of pride we all feel for our athletes and country. I guess some people get their news stories mixed up. Maybe after your co-worker has had the experience of running with the torch she will feel differently...I hope. I’ll be watching it all on tv too! If you walk by our house during the games you’ll be sure to hear us cheering!

I can understand some of the reasons behind why some don’t want the Olympics, but at this point like it or not, they are going to happen. Why not embrace the spirit of pride we all feel for our athletes and country. I guess some people get their news stories mixed up.

Maybe after your co-worker has had the experience of running with the torch she will feel differently…I hope.

]]> By: sully http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride/comment-page-1#comment-3675 sully Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:54:37 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=12412#comment-3675 I am sorry I was out of town when the flame came through. Would have been great to be part of the celebration. I love how the Olympics always pulls people together, not just in the city where they are held but worldwide. Life is always that much better for the 2 weeks or so they are on. I remember in 1980 staying up til all hours of the night in Australia to watch the winter Olympics in Lake Placid. I love both the Summer and Winter Olympics but the winters have always captured my imagination more so. Vancouver 2010 yay! I am sorry I was out of town when the flame came through. Would have been great to be part of the celebration. I love how the Olympics always pulls people together, not just in the city where they are held but worldwide. Life is always that much better for the 2 weeks or so they are on. I remember in 1980 staying up til all hours of the night in Australia to watch the winter Olympics in Lake Placid. I love both the Summer and Winter Olympics but the winters have always captured my imagination more so.

Vancouver 2010 yay!

]]> By: Janet http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride/comment-page-1#comment-3670 Janet Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:55:34 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=12412#comment-3670 I love the Olympics, and am surprised that alot of people don't. With the Olympics being here in Vancouver, I have heard quite a few 'naysayers'. I have a co-worker who is mid-ish 20s who is a torch bearer...and could care less about having the torch as a momento afterwards. WHY are these people involved? It seems like such as waste. We have told her our opinions (there's 3 or 4 of us) what an experience of a lifetime, to be a part of history, etc. How proud you must have all been to be selected to build homes for the athletes. An honour to be involved, that's how I think it should be. Experience of a lifetime, part of history... Someone recently said to me that they were anti-Olympics, and I asked why, their response was 'have you heard of the HST?' (a soon to be Harmonized Sales Tax, effective July/10...extra 7% added to EVERYTHING here in BC) I was stunned!...what? They aren't even related - geesh! I can hardly wait, wish I could afford some of the tickets though - I never thought they'd cost as much as they do. Good thing my husband 'sold' me on the big screen t.v., and HD channels years ago, they might come in handy. I love the Olympics, and am surprised that alot of people don’t. With the Olympics being here in Vancouver, I have heard quite a few ‘naysayers’. I have a co-worker who is mid-ish 20s who is a torch bearer…and could care less about having the torch as a momento afterwards. WHY are these people involved? It seems like such as waste. We have told her our opinions (there’s 3 or 4 of us) what an experience of a lifetime, to be a part of history, etc.

How proud you must have all been to be selected to build homes for the athletes. An honour to be involved, that’s how I think it should be. Experience of a lifetime, part of history…

Someone recently said to me that they were anti-Olympics, and I asked why, their response was ‘have you heard of the HST?’ (a soon to be Harmonized Sales Tax, effective July/10…extra 7% added to EVERYTHING here in BC) I was stunned!…what? They aren’t even related – geesh!

I can hardly wait, wish I could afford some of the tickets though – I never thought they’d cost as much as they do. Good thing my husband ‘sold’ me on the big screen t.v., and HD channels years ago, they might come in handy.

]]> By: anne http://www.taracronica.com/bonnie/olympic-spirit-and-community-pride/comment-page-1#comment-3665 anne Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:15:55 +0000 http://www.taracronica.com/?p=12412#comment-3665 how could you have never told me that???!!! i soooooooo woulda embarrased you!!! how could you have never told me that???!!! i soooooooo woulda embarrased you!!!

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