The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.1979, Síða 46

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
WINTER 1979
ARBORG MAN TAKES PART IN MULTINATION
WORKSHOP
Dr. Oskar Sigvaldason, formerly of
Arborg, Manitoba, and now living in St.
Catharines, Ontario recently visited Poland
for a thirteen-nation workshop on the
“Operation of Multiple Reservoir Sys-
tems”. The workshop was organized jointly
by the International Institute of Applied
Systems Analysis (located in Austria) and
by the Polish Academy of Sciences. Repre-
sentation at the workshop (by formal invita-
tion only) included representation from the
United States, Canada, United Kingdom,
West Germany, Sweden, Finland, Holland
and Japan from the Western bloc countries
and from the U.S.S.R., Poland, Czecho-
slovakia, East Germany and Hungary from
the Eastern bloc countries. Oskar was
Canada’s official representative at the
workshop.
For the meeting, two major state-of-the-
art papers were presented to summarize
existing experience in North America and in
the Soviet Union. The paper for North
America was prepared jointly by professor
Daniel P. Loucks of Cornell University and
by Oskar Sigvaldason.
Oskar also presented a case study report
on recent experience on four separate river
systems in Ontario. Oskar has played a
major role in developing a sophisticated
mathematical model which is now being
used as an aid in the operation of complex
river systems in Ontario. In recent years, the
model has been modified and is now being
used on river systems in Alberta, in New
York State, in Ghana, in Iran and in Thai-
land. It is also of interest to note that the
techniques used in this model are now also
being employed in Hungary and Poland.
The three-way workshop proved to be
very interesting. There was extensive dis-
cussion on approaches used to satisfy the
often conflicting needs of different water
users. It was also interesting to examine the
effects of various instituional and legal ar-
rangements on comprehensive water man-
agement. The workshop provided a con-
venient forum for the exchange of principles
of water management and practical ap-
proaches in the day-to-day execution of
multireservoir management.
The Lake Centre News
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IN THt NEWS
ICELANDIC CLASSES
IN VANCOUVER
Icelandic language classes were held for
ten Saturday mornings from 9:30 A.M. - 12
noon, beginning September 29 at the Van-
couver Technical Secondary School, 2600
E. Broadway. The classes were divided into
two groups, beginners and advanced. The
teacher was Hrafnhildur (Hilda) Esmail.
Hilda was bom in Iceland. She works as a
kindergarten teacher.
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WALLY BYRON, GOALKEEPER
OF THE FALCONS
In the article Two of the Renowned Fal-
cons of Yesteryear, that appeared in the
autumn issue of the Icelandic Canadian,
1979, the name of Wally Byron was omit-
ted. This is to be regretted insofar as he was
one of the major factors in the epic achieve-
ments of that famous team.
Old-timers will remember that during one
of the games of the Olympic hockey tour-
nament in Antwerp, Belgium, 1920, Wally
left his net and scored a goal.