NORTH BATTLEFORD--The weekend of Dec.13-15 included some special activity in conjunction with home games for the Battlefords North Stars.
Their Facebook page outlined three consecutive nights of activity that began with late night shopping at Access Communications Centre on Dec. 13.
In the Dec. 13 game vs Flin Flon, Stars Marketing Manager, Kennedy Schmidt tells the News Optimist, “Hockey Fights Cancer is a new one for us that has been on our hearts since one of our players lost their dad to a cancer battle in our championship season. We were finally able to do something to honour him and we wanted funds to be raised to go to the Canadian Cancer Society.”
Schmidt also adds that their annual toque and mitten toss was done early in the year with items being donated to the Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre, handed out once the cold hit.
Dec. 14, was the annual Teddy Bear Toss with WPD Ambulance and the Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre. Fans love to join in the fun by tossing out teddy bears at intermission with all the toys gathered donated to local causes.
Dec. 21, Schmidt notes, “We do have something new of our last game being a game to welcome back some Alumni with our Alumni Kramer Trailer Sales Shootout Showdown. Fourteen players and two goalies are being auctioned off in the intermissions and then the shootout takes place after the game. “
Following the game, there will be a cabaret with free admission for those who want to attend, showing their game ticket. The event is meant to kick off the holidays and celebrate the first half of the Stars SJHL season.
The Stars Marketing Manger also acknowledges the hockey community always teams up with the Stars to support different organizations.
“We were asked to come out to a few Christmas suppers at Bready School, St. Vital School and then BGC. I think it helps to make players feel more included and comfortable in our community to spend extra time with the kids. The kids idolize these players and to see them at their school is very exciting for them and shows the players just how much they mean to this community. I think it's an added bonus and almost an extra thing to motive them when they hit that ice,” concludes Kennedy.
