The Olympic Games have taken place for over 2000 years and Jamaica has participated in the Olympic Games since 1948, when it was still an official British colony. In 1960, two years before full independence from British rule took place; Jamaican athletes took part in the Summer Olympic Games as a part of the West Indies Federation Team. Jamaica has taken part in the Winter Olympic Games since 1988, with the introduction of the Jamaican National Bobsled Team.
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Hoquiam Olympic Stadium – All wood and proud of it!
Like any town, Hoquiam City, Washington started simple. In the 1850′s white settlers found its estuary and settled on its banks with good lumber on their sites and since then just like the river it was named after the logging camp grew into a town that was always “hungry for wood”. As it grew and the a few of the founders grew rich and famed in their own right and efforts, the City sought a marker for their achievements, one that the common folk, the lumberjacks, the shop keepers and their families can easily identify with and use to forget if just for a moment their daily toils and chores to earn a living and be alive in the truest sense of the word.
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