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More than 52,000 people have responded since Feb. 12, but Vancouver 2010 workforce executive vice-president Donna Wilson isn’t ready to close applications to become an Olympic or Paralympic volunteer.

So far, 12,500 applicants were interviewed by phone and 5,000 came to in-person sessions. Wilson needs 25,000 by Games-time. Wilson said Friday that more applicants are needed in Sea-to-Sky country and more are needed who can speak languages other than English.

Graham Fraser, federal Commissioner of Official Languages, suggested on Tuesday that VANOC recruit French-speakers from Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick to meet its bilingual pledges to the federal government and International Olympic Committee. Fewer than 10% of British Columbians speak French.

“French is the key language we’re looking at, really it’s a case of just ensuring the applications we have turn into real live volunteers,” Wilson said Friday. “We’ll be in a better position to know by March, right now were feeling confident we’ll be able to deliver beyond the expectations and it is a big expectation.”

More than 52,000 people have responded since Feb. 12, but Vancouver 2010 workforce executive vice-president Donna Wilson isn’t ready to close applications to become an Olympic or Paralympic volunteer.

So far, 12,500 applicants were interviewed by phone and 5,000 came to in-person sessions. Wilson needs 25,000 by Games-time. Wilson said Friday that more applicants are needed in Sea-to-Sky country and more are needed who can speak languages other than English.

Graham Fraser, federal Commissioner of Official Languages, suggested on Tuesday that VANOC recruit French-speakers from Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick to meet its bilingual pledges to the federal government and International Olympic Committee. Fewer than 10% of British Columbians speak French.

“French is the key language we’re looking at, really it’s a case of just ensuring the applications we have turn into real live volunteers,” Wilson said Friday. “We’ll be in a better position to know by March, right now were feeling confident we’ll be able to deliver beyond the expectations and it is a big expectation.”

Wilson is also on the lookout for potential volunteers fluent in a variety of other languages, such as Korean, Russian and Norwegian.

“We’re really lucky that we live in the Lower Mainland because it is so multicultural,” she said “We’re going to community groups to see if they can encourage their community to volunteer.”

Wilson marked international volunteer day Friday with 120 pre-Games volunteers at the PNE Forum. The former hockey rink was carpeted, curtained and converted into office and meeting space for volunteer screening and training. An average 150 people come daily for interviews, six days a week. During the Games the Forum will be the uniform and accreditation centre.

Volunteer Pamela Hollington works at least two days a week there in volunteer screening and orientation and also performs shifts inside the Miga or Sumi mascot suit.

“The kids know who they are and the adults get excited too,” said Hollington, a project management consultant and university instructor. “My husband always laughs at me,. He says he can’t believe I can stay quiet for 20 minutes at a time at a mascot appearance.”

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