Winfield Minor Hockey Association
Meeting – November 18, 2014
Winfield Hall – Multipurpose Room
In Attendance: Tawnya Dooper, Woody Johnson, Trudy Murray, Ken Hutchinson, Trish Kramer,
Twyla Ricard, Heather Matthews, Doug Hogg, Chad Kellgren
Meeting called to order at 6:37 p.m.
Minutes from last monthly meeting previously reviewed. Tawnya accepts minutes as reviewed.
Trish seconded.
Old Business
Raffle – tickets should be printed within the next two days and available for distribution on
weekend.
**Tawnya will pick up spa package.
Referee Clinic Update – clinic went well with 20 participants. 5 more registered but did not
attend.
- see submitted overview of participants and expenses.
- in future will need to be more definitive of what costs WMHA covers as there are multiple
components including online portion, clinic fee, Hockey Alberta fee and instuctor’s fees.
Mascot – will not be available for PeeWee tournament however, should be here for atom
tournament at beginning of December.
Tournaments – heart and hustle and MVP toques have been ordered for all tournaments. There
are enough medals for atom and novice tournaments but will need to order for initiation
tournament.
PeeWee – due to a lack of teams, tournament was cancelled.
- have scheduled a fun day between Calgary (Simons Valley), Devon and Winfield
with round robin games and skills competition on November 29. Will also include
a small raffle table and puck toss.
- Tawnya motioned to reimburse both teams $750 tournament costs. Heather
seconded. All in favor. Motion carried.
- Twyla is having plaques on 7 trophies left over from previous tournaments
engraved to be awarded at skills competition challenges.
- Doug willing to sponsor T-shirts for WMHA players.
**Twyla will get a quote and finalize with Doug
Atom – scheduled for Dec 6/7 with 6 teams.
Novice – no new information available.
Initiation – scheduled a two day tournament March 21/22, 2015 with 7 teams
Memorial Jersey – Black Gold Framing is working on jersey framing and should be completed
within 1-2 weeks.
- write-up and collage of pictures will be placed in the show case.
**Woody will discuss with the family.
- will have a ceremony at the year end party.
New Business
Signboard Review – Thadee Holdings and Rose Country Insulation need to be turned.
- Paint Druid did not pay last year so a bill was sent to them for this year and last year.
- Chad motioned to not charge Adrenaline Industries for last year due to the late posting of the
sign. Tawnya seconded. All in favor. Motion carried.
GIC Renewal – currently have $15, 474 available in a GIC.
- Twyla motioned to roll over GIC for another year. Ken seconded. All in favor. Motion carried.
Casino – scheduled for April 15/16, 2015 from 330-1230.
- will need 5 volunteers for each day.
- worker applications are due 60 days prior (January 31).
**Heather will post on the website and send an email to all families.
Wind-up Date – scheduled for Thursday, March 26, 2015
President’s Report – Jerry not able to attend but submitted report to Ken.
- County requests that we call Larry for access to arena not Joyce.
- suggestion to try Tim Stewart for a defensive skills/shooting clinic for Mondays in the month
of January. Suggestion that Tim could possibly attend a midget practice to run some drills.
** Jerry will discuss with Tim.
- Powerskating will be finished on December 22.
- A parent is willing to sponsor an ATC Goalie Clinic. Clinic would be 90 minutes and room for
10-12 goalies to participate. WMHA would support this.
**Jerry will confirm with parent.
Vice President’s Report – nothing further to report
Registrar’s Report – Initiation has been divided into 2 teams. Team 1 is comprised of 13 players
with head coach Jon Drebert. Team 2 has 12 players with head coach Jerry Drebert
- Novice, atom, peewee and midget teams have all been approved.
- Atom and midgets are registered for provincials.
- All affiliations have been approved.
Treasurer’s Report – see submitted report. Twyla accepts report as read. Ken seconded.
- Dodge Caravan Kids picture and application was emailed.
- Managers need to submit receipt for away tournaments.
- VIP Foods fundraiser had a profit of $1615.00
- 2 players still have outstanding fees. Managers are aware and will discuss with parents.
- still awaiting payment of ice resurfacer. Payment of this was outlined in letter sent to all tax
payers in county.
Additional Discussion – suggestion to try and have one older ref and one younger ref.
Meeting adjourned at 8:05 p.m.
Next Meeting schedule for December 16, 2014 at 6:30 p.m.