Mount A welcomes sports stars

When a town of 5,000 gets more than 1,000 visitors, it's a noticeable difference.

Especially when those visitors are all tall, lean athletes decked out in colourful team uniforms from around the world.

The streets of Sackville are alive with athletes this week, thanks to Mount Allison's role as an athletes' village for the IAAF World Junior Championships.

The buzz is noticeable along the main drag.

At Bridge Street Café, a customer asks why the java joint is busier than usual.

It's the world junior championships of track and field. And the athletes' village at Mount A is housing 1,150 athletes from 143 different countries. That's about half the number of people who would fill the campus in September.

And over at Bridge Street Café, employee Randy Christopher says he's getting into the sporting spirit, too. He says the coffee shop has already served people from 50 to 100 different nations.

There will be many more such moments for Yarnell, the Bridge Street staff and all the residents of Sackville as the championships continue throughout this week.

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