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For immediate release September 15, 2004 4th Annual Banff Centre Housekeeping 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 4th annual Banff Centre Housekeeping Olympics on Friday, September 17th starting at 3 p.m. The event is in celebration of International Housekeepers Week which runs September 12 to 18. 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 blinded, 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 4th annual Housekeeping Olympics will take in the Sally Borden Building gymnasium. —30— Media Contact
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