Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Sports
A17
Girls win again
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Jessica Wright took one for the team while Rage 99 catcher Marlee Grant looked on. The Maple Ridge Rage 99 squirts won gold at the B.C. Provincial Championships July 15-17.
On Deck
Football at the Fairgrounds On Saturday, Aug. 13 and Sunday Aug. 14, at the Albion Fairgrounds, the annual Knights of the Roundtable football tournament will give the Meadowridge Knights a chance to see how they stack up against 26 other teams from around B.C. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”
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Rotary Duck Race Allison Campbell broke the record for total points in a single season.
Polo power
Ticket revenue key to speedskaters
Allison Campbell received an honorable mention All-American selection by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches. The Maple Ridge Secondary graduate and polo attacker racked up 56 goals in 33 games – 33 assists for a total of 89 points – the highest points on her team, the Terps. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”
Organizations in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows that sold Rotary Duck Race tickets will get to keep between 50 and 100 per cent of the ticket sales.
Pucks for bucks
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Tickets are now on sale for a WHL exhibition game held at Planet Ice in Maple Ridge on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. between the Vancouver Giants and Victoria Royals. Ticket sales bought online with a promotional code will make money for a local female minor hockey team. • More online: www.mrtimes.com, click on “Sports”
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by Sylver McLaren Community youth groups in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows were invited to make money for their own organization by selling tickets for the Rotary Duck Race. One group did especially well and sold 200 tickets. Ridge Meadows Speedskating Association tries to raise about $10,000 a year to subsidize the ice costs, said RMSSA vicepresident Trish MacKay.
“I think it’s just fabulous,” exclaimed MacKay. “Originally we were told we would get to keep 50 per cent of the ticket sales, with the other portion going towards KidSport,” said MacKay. However, she heard that businesses have sold so many duck tickets that the participating groups might be able to keep 100 per cent of their own sales. If RMSSA gets to keep 100 per cent of the ticket sales that will be $2,000 or 20 per cent of the yearly fundraising efforts. “We usually do bottle drives, pub nights, raffles, and competitions, but this was so much better – better prizes can sell more tickets,” MacKay said. Bob Shantz, the race’s chief legal officer, said he hopes what MacKay heard will be true. “It’s a possibility, but it
Rotary Duck Race recipients A variety of kids groups have helped with the inaugural fundraiser:
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The speedskating club in Maple Ridge is one of 15 youth groups that will benefit from ticket sales of the Rotary Duck Race. will have to go to another Club was to sell 10,000 for committee for a final deci$10 each. The first $25,000 sion. We did say 25 per is to be donated to the cent to KidSport and the Maple Ridge chapter of balance to all the others,” KidSport. said Shantz. The remaining $75,000 “Every dollar that is support youth sports and made goes to the kids. Rotary youth projects One hundred per cent goes in Maple Ridge and Pitt to their sports activities,” Meadows and priority will Shantz added. be given to youth organThe original goal of the izations that participated Meadow Ridge Rotary in the Duck Race.
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• KidSport • Davie Jones Elementary PAC • Pitt Meadows Paddling Club • PLEA’s KidStart mentoring • Ridge Meadows Minor Baseball • Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey • Ridge Meadows Minor Softball • Ridge Meadows Speedskating • Ridge Canoe & Kayak Club • 1st Laityview Scout Group • Golden Ears Athletics • Haney Neptunes Aquatic Club • Meadow Ridge Knights Football • Pitt Meadows Soccer • Golden Ears United Soccer
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