{"id":44,"date":"2009-12-27T17:24:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T01:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2015-11-27T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T01:27:26","slug":"provincial-cash-helps-unique-sport-pucks-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/provincial-cash-helps-unique-sport-pucks-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial cash helps unique sport, PuCKS players"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cane.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cane-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"cane\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cane-200x300.jpeg 200w, http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/cane.jpeg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Athletes on the ice and on the cane ball court stand to benefit from the funding.<\/p>\n<p>A local children&#8217;s charity organization and a unique sport new to Langley have received a financial push forward.<\/p>\n<p>2010 Legacies Now, in partnership with the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, will provide $2,000 to Langley City to start a new cane ball league for youth.<\/p>\n<p>The groups will also dole out $2,000 to the PuCKS Powerplay Foundation to support recreational and early-level competitive hockey.<\/p>\n<p>The grants were made available through the Local Sport Program Development Fund (LSDF).<\/p>\n<p>Cane ball is a traditional sport from Southeast Asia combining elements from volleyball, soccer and gymnastics. The LSDF grant will be used to start a new league led by Karen refugees in the community, and to develop new social connections for them in Langley.<\/p>\n<p>PuCKS Powerplay Foundation will use its funds to pay for more ice-time, gear, and instruction for hockey participants in its recreational and early-level programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PuCKS Rec Program offers a 10-month recreational &#8216;cul-de-sac&#8217; hockey experience each Friday afternoon to 45 girls and boys, ages eight to 18, who are at-risk or newly re-settled to Canada,&#8221; explained Connie Klimek from the PuCKS Powerplay Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The LSDF is made available to municipalities, sport organizations and Aboriginal communities. Organizations receive up to $2,000 to develop new (or enhance existing) programs that encourage greater participation and access to sport for people of all abilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being active in local team sports is a great way to get healthy and get connected to the community,&#8221; said Langley MLA Mary Polak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the more than 300 Karen refugees in Langley the introduction of cane ball is also a way for their youth to feel included.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA Rich Coleman said students need a healthy foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting involved in local sports like the PuCKS Rec and Power Nation programs offers new opportunities for children with few choices and for those at-risk,&#8221; Coleman said. &#8220;By investing in children&#8217;s sporting programs, we are building a stronger community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Langley Advance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published:\u00a0Friday, December 18, 2009<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes on the ice and on the cane ball court stand to benefit from the funding. A local children&#8217;s charity organization and a unique sport new to Langley have received a financial push forward. 2010 Legacies Now, in partnership with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/provincial-cash-helps-unique-sport-pucks-players\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[26,23,12,27,28,6,11],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-events","tag-cane-ball","tag-community","tag-donation","tag-karen-youth","tag-province-of-bc","tag-pucks","tag-sponsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pucksprogram.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}