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Cherry valley/"wbman carries Olympic torch from Cornwall July 13 the Sacred Flame Wagnignited near the Temple of Hera at Olympia. That event was of Significance to many dians as this is the Olympic 03:: for Canada, but it was_ of ecial importance for Avarlna lsvlfliller, 18, of RR 1, Cherry Wis/ifs}; Miller, a secondâ€"year, arts student at the Universxty of Toronto was an Olympic torch bearer for a one kilometre section of the flame’s long journey to Kingston for the sailing Olympics. Miss Miller had to get ‘up at one in the morning to drive_to Cornwall and board a bus which carried the runners to their designated running points. She got there at 4 a.m. and was aboard the bus and off by 6 a.m. “A lot of people were complaining about the time it was being run," commented Miss Miller, “but I felt it was such an honor, a once in a lifetime thing, that it was worthwhile. The funny partwas Avarina Miller, 18, of RR 1, Cherr‘y‘Valley recently displayed the uniform and the torch sh: used/while running kilometre 31 of the Olympic flame's Journey between Cornwall an Upper Canada Village, July 17. A rare curiosity found on Waup005_ Blair“: by Dam: Condor, Waupoos, and Paul Gentile, a e on Mountain, is this sixiegged frog. ' asked the man what they would ' she went to the van where she that while I was running my legs started hurting, but after I felt that I could do it again." The entire operation was smoothly run and went without any problems despite the complexity of the event. Miss Miller said, “I was very impressed, there has been a lot of_ talk about the Olympics being very unorganized, but it was very well run." According to Miss Miller the convoy of buses managed to get everyone onboard and organiz- ed by 6 a.m., all runners were to be at the meeting site in Cornwall by 4 a.m. There were two Gray Coach buses at the front of the convoy followed by three official cars and a van, followed by another bus. The road had each kilometre markâ€" ‘ ed off with white paint, said Miss Miller. Her kilometre was number 31, which she reached , and began running at 8:30 a.m. _ The previous runner would light the next torch and the officials would make sure it was alight before the runner would start. off beside an Ontario Provmcial Police officer riding on a motorcycle. The official’s car was behind the runner. “If you ran too close to the edge of the road, they would pull out a megaphone and shout at you to move over," recalled Miss Miller. “The officials also checked the flame to make sure it was always going." “In my run they thought the" flame had gone out,” said Miss .‘ Miller, “which was kind of fun as I could use the rest, but it _ hadn't. I tried to use the rest '. time as much as I could and have done if it had gone out, but he just said to keep running." After she had run her kilometre and lit the next torch handed it in to be extinguished, then with her torch returned she got on the bus at the back of the convoy to be let off at Upper Canada Village. At that point the flame was given to canoeists, then horsemen, then bicycles and finally back to runners for the final leg of the journey. Miss Miller, who did not practice the run, said “It wasn’t easy." She mentioned that - ‘ while she did not know how quickly she ran the'actual . kilometre, during the tryouts She ran it in four minutes. The required time was under five minutes. According to one newspaper report Miss Miller read. being an Olympic torch bearer can be a_ dangerous job as apparently ‘one runner had her face burned by the torch’s flame. Running along holding the torch out in front can be very tiring. reported Miss Miller. “It's made of aluminum. but it feels like lead after awhile." The torch weighs two pounds. The runners chosen were representative of the amateur athlete. “1 ex ected them to all be super athletes and track stars," remarked Miss Miller. “They were just people who kept in shape.“ She said as far as she knew there was no age limit for runners. one was a 80 year old man and another a 15 year old boy. to be run. All of these people were part of a breakthrough in Olympic history, for the flame, which had been brought to Athens by the traditixinai runner, ”win,” transferred by INTELSAT communications satellite from 2 Athens to Ottawa. The original flame was introduced between the plates of a sensor, which sent a signal by telephone cable to a transmitter that bounced the signal off the satellite to a receiver in Ottawa. There the ‘ flame was returned to its original state by laser beam in ‘ an urn on Parliament Hill. The flame travelled to Mount Royal in Montreal, then contin- ued on to reach Kingston by July 17 where it was presented first to the mayor as tradition d rees. ell/Iiss Miller said she heard of the event on the radio. An' announcement that there were not enough female runnersv spurred her on to phone for an application. She then received a phone call in June asking her to attend a tryout with about 50 other hopefuls. The tryouts were held on the actual stretch ' Mayor Don KiadJoe' Brown were out Collecting V Thug garbage Sunday with the help of Ron Denard, Gold Cup l organizer, The trio cleaned up litter along Mam Street i from its intersection with Paul Street to Downes "Street. ..\wru.,,(..._,-w. _