Hello Rally Enthusiasts,

The 2014 edition of the Black Rally is two months away. This year Black Bear will be held on Saturday July 12th and Sunday July 13th. Rally headquarters will again be at the community centre in Gilmour and we will be using the same roads as last year for the stages.

Registration and Recce will be on Saturday July 12th and the rally stages will be raced on Sunday. The change from our normal Friday/Saturday schedule came about as a result of feedback from volunteers and a round table discussion with competitors. With a Saturday/Sunday Schedule volunteers and competitors would not need to take time off of work on Friday to get to the rally. Black Bear will need some volunteers on Saturday to help with recce and registration and more on Sunday to run the stages. A barbecue for volunteers and competitors will be held on Saturday night and camping space is available at the community centre. If camping out is not your style there is plenty of accommodation available in the area.

We are currently assigning roles and hope to fill positions, as quickly as possible with people such as yourself. Black Bear is a multi road rally, in order to successfully run the event again, we need:

•         amateur radio operators,
•         timing marshals,
•         traffic control marshals and
•         crowd control marshals
•         we also need some help on Saturday the 12th  to help with taping, signage, arrowing, recce, registration and tech inspection

This rally has been very lucky in attracting dedicated volunteers, without whom the Black Bear Rally could never have been a success year after year. We couldn't do it without you!
If you know anyone who has never volunteered at a rally and is curious to know more, please feel free to pass along this information to them.

We are anticipating another great event. Please reply directly to:

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