Festivities raise $12,000
The Pembina Valley Twisters hockey team hosted their annual fundraising event for CancerCare Manitoba Foundation on Saturday, alongside the Town of Morris’ Winter Carnival.
Pembina Valley Twisters alumni game
Hundreds of people of all ages visited the Morri Multiplex throughout the day to enjoy a variety of activities, including youth and senior Red River Wild games, Mavericks hockey, a Twisters alumni game, hot dogs, pony-drawn cart rides, bouncy castles, and, new this year, fiddlers and jiggers, all in support of CancerCare.
“At events like these the community has the opportunity to come together, especially in the colder months, and to support local youth hockey,” reflected recreation director Meagan Dilts.
Shirley Grosky, board chair at St. Jean Baptiste & Morris Local Manitoba Metis Federation, was pleased with the traditional jiggers from Kinew Local Métis that “showed the Metis and Indigenous culture and heritage of the area.”
More than twenty residents of the Red River Valley Lodge attended to watch the youth dancers and enjoy the fiddlers.
Many heads left the complex with a lot less hair, and attendees showed their support through 50/50 and silent auction tickets as well as direct cash donations.
Since getting its start in 2009 in support of Dale Rempel, who died of brain cancer three years later, the weekend has raised upwards of $200,000 for CancerCare.
At press time, this year’s festivities had brought in just over $12,000.
