Hello Rally Enthusiasts,

1. The Black Bear Rally work day is set for Saturday June 21, we need helpwith notices,signs and rally route maintenance. If you can help out pleasecontact David Maynard at blackbear.volunteers@mlrc.ca .

2. We have received a good response to our first request for volunteers tohelp run the Black Bear Rally. Many more volunteers are still needed so come onout on Saturday July 12th and Sunday July 13th and enjoy the fine summer weather and great rallying. Rallyheadquarters will again be at the community centre in Gilmour and we will beusing the same roads as last year for the stages. Registration and recce willbe on Saturday July 12th and the rally stages will be raced onSunday. Black Bear will also need some volunteers on Saturday to help withrecce and registration and more on Sunday to run the stages. A barbecue forvolunteers and competitors will be held on Saturday night and camping space isavailable at the community centre. If camping out is not your style there isplenty of accommodation available in the area. If you would like someassistance with arranging accommodation please let us know.

Black Bear is a multi road rally, in order to successfully run the eventagain, we need:
·amateur radio operators,
·timing marshals,
·traffic control marshals and
·crowd control marshals
·we also need some helpon Saturday the 12th to help with taping, signage, arrowingand recce.

This rally has been verylucky in attracting dedicated volunteers, without whom the Black Bear Rally couldnever have been a success year after year. We couldn't do itwithout you! Please replydirectly to:

David Maynard
Chief Control Marshal
Black Bear Rally
blackbear.volunteers@mlrc.ca