Adam Prudhomme
Editor
NDSS students will face-off against the Kingston and Lennox and Addington’s finest in a fun charity hockey game on Feb. 7 at the Best and Bash Arena.
Senior members of both Golden Hawks’ girls and boys hockey team will match up against a team made up of Kingston Police, Lennox and Addington OPP and Greater Napanee Mayor Terry Richardson for this fun exhibition game, which gets underway at 12:30 p.m.
“The student council at NDSS has put a lot of the legwork into this,” said Det. Shawn Birney of the Kingston Police, who is helping to organize the event. “It’s a buy out game, so each student can pay $10 to come watch the game or just buy out of class and then all money raised is going to be split between the Morningstar Mission and the OSPCA in town.”
The Mission was selected because it provides hot meals for students at the high school as part of their community outreach.
The idea for a charity hockey game started as a class project.
“Me and two others took it on as project that we’d get marked on and then we kind of turned it into more of a community wide event,” said Carter Slaven, a member of the NDSS boys hockey team, who came up with the idea as part of his Rec Leadership Class. “We’re hoping it will spark a routine and hopefully the graduating class would do something similar to this and keep it going as an event that happens every year.”
Members of the community are invited to attend with a $5 entry fee, which will go towards the cause. In between periods will also be a ‘chuck a duck’ contest with a chance to win NDSS Golden Hawks gear. A portion of proceeds generated from the canteen during the game will also go towards the cause.
Along with raising some funds, the game is a chance for the police officers to make connections with teens in the community.
Napanee’s Best and Bash Arena. Photo by Adam Prudhomme.