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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Sports
Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows Times
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Changing of guard
Minor hockey picks new president An annual general meeting election ousted Mike Walls in favour of former referee in chief Dan Herbranson. by Sylver McLaren
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Unicef photo
Karina LeBlanc recently visited Honduras with UNICEF Canada. At her first clinic – greeted by 200 girls, some wearing the shirt of her first club team, Golden Ears United in Maple Ridge.
Retired Mountie Dan Herbranson is the new president of the Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey Association. He was voted in as president at the association’s annual general meeting last Tuesday, after volunteering as the referee-in-chief for the past half dozen years. “Our mandate when we are elected to the executive board is to ensure that kids are able to go out and play the great game of
hockey. To that end the 2012-2013 executive board did exactly that,” Herbranson said. “Kids in our community were able to go out and play hockey,” he added. About having paid positions in the minor hockey association, Herbranson said: “I am neither for it nor against it, if it makes the association better, certainly I would be for it.” He added that currently the association is looking at the possibility of hiring someone for the role of director of hockey operations. “This position has never been in our association before. We have never had a paid position within the association – that would be ground breaking if and when this gets approved,” Herbranson explained. Other sports associations have people who are paid to assist in the running of oper-
ations, he told The TIMES. Asked if he would support the idea, Herbranson said: “I like a lot of what is in the proposal. Historically, these different aspects have been looked after by a group of volunteers. This will now be one person. So, if someone is hired they would be expected to fill their days with full-time employment.” He said he looks forward to working with past president Mike Walls. “I’m looking forward to working with Mike. We have agreed to work together to make our association as strong as possible,” he said. Herbranson feels strong enough about the association to support it. He put his two sons through the hockey association. Both sons are in their 20s now and started in the mid 1990s.
Fencing
Women’s soccer
LeBlanc: A New tournament hosts epee, foil, sabre events fencers were rose among Sixteen awarded medals in a hosted by the Thorns tournament Meadowridge School. by Marc Weber Special to The TIMES
In March, UNICEF Canada named Maple Ridge’s Karina LeBlanc its first female soccer ambassador. She’ll work with them in the off-season, and hopes to visit her native Dominica with UNICEF soon. But right now it is the onseason where she has landed a spot as goalkeeper with the Portland Thorns women’s football club.
- Marc Weber is with The Province
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Meadowridge School hosted its first fencing tournament on Sunday, April 14. The Meadowridge Youth Open drew fencers, coaches, and spectators from all over the Lower Mainland as well as fencers from Vernon, and Seattle, Wash. Fencers from Meadowridge Fencing Club, Tri-City Fencing Academy, Dynamo Fencing Club, North Vancouver Fencing Club, Vernon Freestyle Fencing, Okanagan Fencing Club, Ecole de
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Beairsto, and Rain City Fencing Club together sent more than 80 fencers competed in foil, epee, and sabre events. Sixteen were awarded for the top four in each category. Connie Chow-Go, Grade 4 teacher and parent at Meadowridge, fencing club coach and parent Gareth Mason and parent Carolyn Treger organized the tournament. The event was one of the largest youth fencing tournament in B.C.
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Two fencers squared off at the first annual Meadowridge Youth Open recently. Anita Bonnarens photo
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