For immediate release
September 10, 2003

3rd Annual Banff Centre Housekeeping/Custodial Olympics sure to be cleanest competition ever

Armed with buffer pads, scrubbing tools, and oven mitts, at least six teams of professional scrubbers, dusters, and polishers will face-off at the 3rd annual Banff Centre Housekeeping/Custodial Olympics on Thursday, September 18 starting at 2 p.m. The event is in celebration of International Housekeepers Week that runs September 14-20.

Competition will flare as teams of departments across campus take on teams of Custodial and Housekeeping staff. Olympic sanctioned events include: modified frisbee toss (contestants will be judged on their accuracy in throwing floor-polishing buffer pads); a relay race featuring runners who have to negotiate a racecourse while balancing shampoo, soap and lotions on a scrubbing tool; and a bedmaking challenge – pairs of competitors will make a cot blind-folded, tied together at the leg, and wearing oven mitts.

“This is an opportunity for us to celebrate the year-round efforts of our housekeeping and custodial staff and to recognize them for their hard work, especially during the summer,” says executive housekeeper Brenda-Lee Upstone.

The 3rd annual Housekeeping Olympics will take place outside behind Lloyd Hall or, if it rains, in the Sally Borden Building gymnasium.

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