With equipment and other items are arriving on a daily basis, 100 Mile House Wranglers Junior B Hockey Club president Tom Bachynski says excitement is really building for the start of the season.
“As we see this stuff happening, we [club executive] are pinching ourselves and realizing we got to giddy-up because this is really going to happen in a couple of week.
“I think everybody has butterflies; we’re anxious and excited. There’s a big bucket of emotions that is going on ... and it’s all good.
The next big event for the Wranglers is the Main Camp, which starts at 3 p.m. on Sunday (Aug. 18) and ends with the Blue & White game at 7 p.m. on Aug. 20. (See details on page 4.)
Folks are encouraged to come down to the arena to check out the action. There is no admission fee except for the Blue & White - $2 and a non-perishable item for the local Food Bank.
During the Main Camp, the club executive will be hosting a Volunteer Fair.
Folks will be able to sign up to help in one of 10 volunteers areas – off-ice officials, special events, Booster Club, event staff, billeting, equipment manager, guest services, marketing and sales, media personnel and beverage garden.
Club executive assistant Kersti Foote says each of these areas needs someone to chair it, except for marketing and sales, but volunteers will also be needed to help in all of these areas.
Executive members will be manning the booth at the Main Camp and will have handouts detailing what chores need to be done in each area. They will also be able to answer questions potential volunteers might have.
They want to sign up all of the volunteers they need to help the club run as smooth as silk.
Bachynski says they hope to get enough people, so no one feels they need to be at the rink for all 26 home games. Scheduling is also something that can be discussed during the Volunteer Fair.
“Anybody who wants to find out what they can do and how they can [help out], this would be a great opportunity to come in and watch a little bit of hockey and put your name forward to be part of the volunteer base. And then away we go.”
They are a “couple bed short” for billeting the players, and Bachynski would like to see that get filled this weekend and someone will be there to talk about those details.
Noting the executive is feeling the crunch with Main Camp coming up this Sunday and about being a couple of weeks away from the season starting, the club president says the planning is coming together so very quickly, “it takes your breath away,” but it’s exciting.
“I hope that the community appreciates what the executive has done because they have done an outstanding job of putting everything together for the organization and the team without a blueprint.”
