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January 8, 2003
Skytrain goes Scottish…Have no fear if you board skytrain on Friday, January 24 and feel as though you’re being transported to the Gaelic highlands. You’re still on the Lower Mainland. You’ve just encountered Simon Fraser University’s tartan-clad band of well-wishers, celebrating Robbie Burns’ birthday. For more than 20 years, annually, a merry troupe of faculty, staff, students and community participants has paraded through the learned halls of Burnaby campus in honour of Scotland’s national bard.
For the first time, the troupe is boarding skytrain (roughly 9:15 a.m. Production Way station) to bring the annual festivities to Surrey and Harbour Centre campuses. Led by a piper from SFU’s four-time world champion pipe band, the celebratory troupe will arrive at Surrey campus in Central City Mall on King George Highway at 10:00 a.m. Frank Campbell, a true Scot from SFU’s Learning & Instructional Development Centre, will address, cut and serve the haggis at 10:30 a.m. at the entrance to Surrey campus. Then it’s back to Burnaby campus via skytrain. Once atop Burnaby Mountain, the troupe will help unveil a new display case at SFU’s W.A.C. Bennett Library. The display case will house several coveted bagpiping trophies belonging to the St. Andrews & Caledonian Society of Vancouver, and now in SFU’s care. Society president David Lunny and director Rex Davidson will attend the ceremony.
Then the day’s parading of the haggis resumes. The estimated times for breaking haggis at Burnaby campus are: Diamond University Centre, 12:05 p.m; MacKenzie Cafeteria, 12:20 p.m.; Highland Pub, 12:35 p.m. and Raven’s Cafeteria, 12:50 p.m. The troupe will catch skytrain at Production Way and disembark at Waterfront station at around 2:30 p.m. Then it’s off to Harbour Centre campus where another great chieftain of the puddin’ race will be carved up at 2:40 p.m., just inside the campus entrance off Hastings.
The SFU Robbie Burns Dinner and Silent Auction will cap off the day’s shenanigans. The gala event, which includes a dinner of haggis, neeps, roast beef, all the trimmings and a gourmet dessert, takes place at the Executive Inn Hotel and Suites, 405 North Road, Coquitlam. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7:00 p.m. The world champion SFU senior and Robert Malcolm pipebands, the bands’ dance team and well-known Scottish performer Robert Stewart will provide entertainment. For more information and tickets contact Laurie Kortschak, 604.536.5601, lauern@shaw.ca.
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Contact
Marilyn Pankratz, 604.291.4643; 604.808.3244 (cell)
Carol Thorbes, Media & PR 604.291.3035; cthorbes@sfu.ca
For the first time, the troupe is boarding skytrain (roughly 9:15 a.m. Production Way station) to bring the annual festivities to Surrey and Harbour Centre campuses. Led by a piper from SFU’s four-time world champion pipe band, the celebratory troupe will arrive at Surrey campus in Central City Mall on King George Highway at 10:00 a.m. Frank Campbell, a true Scot from SFU’s Learning & Instructional Development Centre, will address, cut and serve the haggis at 10:30 a.m. at the entrance to Surrey campus. Then it’s back to Burnaby campus via skytrain. Once atop Burnaby Mountain, the troupe will help unveil a new display case at SFU’s W.A.C. Bennett Library. The display case will house several coveted bagpiping trophies belonging to the St. Andrews & Caledonian Society of Vancouver, and now in SFU’s care. Society president David Lunny and director Rex Davidson will attend the ceremony.
Then the day’s parading of the haggis resumes. The estimated times for breaking haggis at Burnaby campus are: Diamond University Centre, 12:05 p.m; MacKenzie Cafeteria, 12:20 p.m.; Highland Pub, 12:35 p.m. and Raven’s Cafeteria, 12:50 p.m. The troupe will catch skytrain at Production Way and disembark at Waterfront station at around 2:30 p.m. Then it’s off to Harbour Centre campus where another great chieftain of the puddin’ race will be carved up at 2:40 p.m., just inside the campus entrance off Hastings.
The SFU Robbie Burns Dinner and Silent Auction will cap off the day’s shenanigans. The gala event, which includes a dinner of haggis, neeps, roast beef, all the trimmings and a gourmet dessert, takes place at the Executive Inn Hotel and Suites, 405 North Road, Coquitlam. Cocktails at 6 p.m. Dinner at 7:00 p.m. The world champion SFU senior and Robert Malcolm pipebands, the bands’ dance team and well-known Scottish performer Robert Stewart will provide entertainment. For more information and tickets contact Laurie Kortschak, 604.536.5601, lauern@shaw.ca.
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Contact
Marilyn Pankratz, 604.291.4643; 604.808.3244 (cell)
Carol Thorbes, Media & PR 604.291.3035; cthorbes@sfu.ca