NEXXICE skating in Chatham in 2011
One of the highlights will be two Nexxice teams – Junior level and Open level – will be performing exhibition skates at 12:35 p.m. to 12:45p.m. The competition begins at 8:00 a.m. and finishes at 9:00 p.m. Admission at the door is $5.00.
Several local teams from communities across Chatham-Kent will be competing at the event.
Local skating clubs in Kent Region that will be in attendance include Blenheim, Chatham, Dresden, Ridgetown, Tilbury, Wallaceburg, Walpole Island and West Elgin.
This competition is one of the fundraisers used to keep kids on the ice. In recent years, local skating clubs have seen a major decline in registration, and this event is vital for these clubs to continue to offset costs.
January 3, 2012 at 6:34 pm
What this article fails to mention is that the local clubs are not attending to compete BUT to WORK in order to raise funds for each local club to try to keep our heads above water since the munucipality refuses to keep the ice cost the same but just wants to destory anything small and local for kids to participate in by raising the cost of ice EVERY year!
Our time is precious to us and some of us on these skating boards are tired out after year after year trying to keep our clubs going with out ANY help from new parents or canskate families who look down on us when we ask for any kind of assisstance in any way, but do have the nerve to cmplain about the cost of lessons! We ( the people who have been doing this year after year) along with running carnivals, other fundraisers, and just keeping the clubs running are extremely tired out and are in need of fresh, new people to help us. Is it not in our constitiutions that the executive MUST change every couple years??? How do we change when NOONE shows up at the meetings or even express an interest to help us! How do especially the little clubs keep going??
January 3, 2012 at 6:11 pm
It is a great fundraiser but our problem is that we can not get our parents of our clubs to help. It is usually the same few couples from each club that have to stay all day….Not all of us want to be there all day. Most of us actually don’t like going at all. Especially on the holidays this year. We have several families gone away. Some clubs even had to work for other clubs last year that had no one show up! How can we enforce more parents to help??? And to inculde our canskate parents without them glaring at us that we have the nerve to ask them to help…How dare we ask them for help ??? Most executives who have been on their board for more than a year will know what I am talking about. Any ideas so the same few people don’t ahve to work at it year after year for hours on end???