MARCH 4, 2010 ISSUE
Richard T. Trundy Memorial Sugar Cup Competition Sunday
Sugar Bear’s Birthday Celebration Sunday
Sugar Mountain Resort’s mascot, Sugar Bear (age unknown), will celebrate his birthday this Sunday, March 7, said Kim Jochl, public relations director for Sugar Mountain Resort.
The annual birthday celebration “started before I came here” 17 years ago, so it has been an established event for “quite a while,” Jochl said.
From 8:30 to 10:00 a.m., Sugar Bear will “meet and greet” at the lift ticket area, and at 11:45 a.m., Sugar Bear and his girlfriend Sweetie Bear will participate in the Great Bear Race, she said.
“We set up some gates, [and] all the kids ski through and get a little ribbon at the end,” Jochl said.
At noon, the kids in the Sugar Bear Ski School program will have lunch, and at 12:15 p.m., “something fun for the kids,” such as a magic show, will take place in the Sugar Bear Ski/Snowboard Room, she said.
At 12:45 p.m., cake and ice cream will be served either on the deck or inside, depending on the weather, she said.
“Kids skiing with their family can join in for the race and cake and ice cream,” Jochl said.
Want To Go?
Date: Sunday, March 7
Time: 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. registration/9:00 a.m. competition
Location: Sugar Mountain Resort
Cost: $15 entry fee/$25 lift ticket
The Richard Trundy Memorial Sugar Cup Giant Slalom Competition, open to both skiers and snowboarders of intermediate or higher ability levels, takes place this Sunday, March 7. Registration is from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., and the competition begins at 9:00 a.m. on “Big Red ski slope.” The entry fee is $15 and participant lift tickets are $25.
Prizes will be awarded to the top three ski and snowboard finishers in 13 age categories that range from four and under to 60 and over.
Since 1987, the Sugar Cup Competition has been a fundraising event to celebrate the lives of people whose contributions made a lasting impression at Sugar Mountain Resort.
Richard Trundy was director of operations from 1987 to 2000, and he passed away from cancer in February 2002. Since his death, 100 percent of the entry fees from the Sugar Cup Competition have been and will continue to be donated to the American Cancer Society in his memory, a press release said.
Trundy, a retired Marine Corps two-star general, was “a great manager and a super friend,” said Gunther Jochl of Sugar Mountain Resort.
Jochl said he met Trundy in the early 1970s while he was working at Bryce Resort in Virginia and Trundy, stationed in Washington, D.C., came to the resort to ski.
“We were friends many, many years,” Jochl said, adding that Trundy liked the mountains and the people in the High Country, and that everyone liked him, as well.
For more information about the competition, call 828-898-4521 or click to www.skisugar.com/calendar.
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