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AnD WE’rE In Karli Keen, Hannah Kavanagh, Hope Sharp, avery Klooster, caleb armoogan and cole altman were sporting their favourite hockey jerseys at riverside P.S. Wednesday, ready to cheer on Woolwich in cBc’s Hockeyville PHOTO | JOni MilTenBurG competition. The community is now on the top-10 list, with voting running until midnight Sunday.
Woolwich makes Hockeyville shortlist
Supporters encouraged to vote early and vote often until Sunday night deadline to choose top five finalists MARC MIQUEL HELSEN Woolwich’s love of hockey was evident enough to get it into the top-10 list of CBC’s Kraft Hockeyville contest in which communities from across the country are vying to be crowned the hockey capital of Canada in 2009. The township was shortlisted as one of 10 finalists selected from a list of 195 entrants on
Wednesday night. Voting to whittle that down to five began immediately after the list was announced, wrapping up at midnight on Sunday. “We’re very excited to have made the top 10; it’s a tribute to the team that we have here,” said Elmira committee member Graham Snyder on Wednesday. “We have a dedicated group of volunteers who have put a lot of work in the last little
while and we’re going to have our team growing by leaps and bounds within the next few days; so we need votes from wherever we can get them,” he said, noting that a lot of work still lies ahead. Indeed, supporters converging at St. Louis Bar and Grill in Waterloo to watch Wednesday’s installment of the Hockeyville TV show got to work as soon as the shortlist was announced and the polls were
opened to voters. Canadian hockey fans can vote for their community by visiting www.cbc.ca/hockeyville until 7:30 a.m. Monday. Once the top five are chosen, a profile of each will be shown on a series of Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts between Jan. 31 and Feb. 28. Another round of voting will then be held until Mar. 4 at 5 p.m. The town or city that is named Hockeyville will have an NHL
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preseason game played in its community, an installment of CBC Hockey Night in Canada broadcast from that community, and $100,000 to upgrade its home arena. The other four finalists will get $25,000. “It’s going to be crucial for us to get the support from the whole community – the whole team needs to pull together,” said Snyder. Elmira’s initial submission See TOP TEN page »07
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